# Gross things you've seen strangers do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423 "2006-01-24T18:45:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/61 "2006-01-26T18:33:11Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > It’s going to take a lot to top my neighbor masturbating his dog. It sounds like the dog was topping him already 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/62 "2006-01-26T18:34:52Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > What? Did this guy open a new account every day? No, you can issue a replacement passbook on an existing account. The reason this happened, I think, is that the guy would stick the passbook in his back pocket. And he was rather incontinent. By the time 24 hours had passed, major soakage had occured. And he came in every day because that’s how long it took him to spend his daily $5 withdrawl. There was another guy who came in who – Who was that actor who played Hellboy? Ron Perlman? Remember him in The Name of the Rose, where he played Salvatore? Well, this customer looked like Salvatore. Only not as squeaky clean. While getting his transaction together, he’d put his fingers up his nose or in his ears, then down the front of his pants, then down the back of his pants, then back to his nose and so on. All the while fondling checks that we’d eventually have to handle. That was a rubber glove job right there. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/63 "2006-01-26T18:38:57Z")
Check out the Google ads dude! \ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/64 "2006-01-26T18:42:53Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > I’ve seen people take their hard contacts lenses out of their eyes, pop 'em in their mouth and then _put them back in their eyes!_ Your own spit is really not all that gross. And the spit of others – let’s just say that I have willingly gotten someone else’s spit not only in my mouth, but on my fun bits as well. Hey, I’m odd that way. In fact, in the world of snorkelling/SCUBA diving, there’s one source of mask defogging compound that’s free, plentiful, handy, and requires no special container. I didn’t have much of a hard time convincing my germophobic (and snorkelling newbie) GF that it was OK to spit in her mask. What was funny last Summer was that we’d spent a long day diving, and while resting, some other people were just getting started. It was three guys and a woman. The guys kept telling the woman to spit in her mask. At first she was all like “No way! That’s gross!” After a while she kept looking at them with a half smile as if to say “Are you sure? I think you’re playing a joke on me.” When we left the beach, she was still waist-deep in the water, unmasked and unsure of what to do. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/65 "2006-01-26T18:43:58Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Check out the Google ads dude! \ “Help Hurricane Victims.” Ewwww! ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/66 "2006-01-26T18:58:57Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > No, you really don’t. > > (Okay, the dog was humping rather mightily toward the end and the guy just finished him off by jerking. Hey, you asked.) I tried to find a photo that would express the horror of this, but I don’t think one exists on this planet. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/67 "2006-01-26T19:16:53Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > I tried to find a photo that would express the horror of this, but I don’t think one exists on this planet. [Well…](http://www.funnyjunk.com/p/scaredkitty-jpg.html)not a picture of a human, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/68 "2006-01-26T19:59:25Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > (Okay, the dog was humping rather mightily toward the end and the guy just finished him off by jerking…) Only just now do I find your user name disturbing… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/69 "2006-01-26T20:25:14Z")
I am gagging and heaving here, only inturruped by the peals of insane giggling. You guys are sick/awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/70 "2006-01-26T20:26:55Z")
The grossest thing I ever saw was a woman carrying around a little bowl into which she spat her phlegm when she coughed. (It was a particularly bad flu season that year.) I saw this when I was about sixteen, and I think it scarred me for life. I actually gagged while I was typing this, just reliving the memory. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/71 "2006-01-26T20:31:20Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > The grossest thing I ever saw was a woman carrying around a little bowl into which she spat her phlegm when she coughed. (It was a particularly bad flu season that year.) > > I saw this when I was about sixteen, and I think it scarred me for life. I actually gagged while I was typing this, just reliving the memory. Wouldn’t have it been way worse if she drank it all when the bowl got full? Sorry ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/72 "2006-01-26T20:52:27Z")
- When I was 16 or 17, a “special” person at a booth next to me at McDonalds was digging away at a booger, the pinky finger drilling deeper and deeper until it was completely up the nose. _Completely_. - While walking down a street in downtown El Paso, I saw a homeless man, who was laying on his side on the sidewalk, unzip his pants, take his penis out, and start peeing, _while continuing to lay on his side_. - While walking in the Loop in Chicago, I witnessed a homeless man drop trow and have a bowel movement. A bowel movement that took the form of a high-pressure stream of brown chunks and liquid. - Watching anyone else but me pop their zits. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/73 "2006-01-26T20:58:47Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Okay, the dog was humping rather mightily toward the end and the guy just finished him off by jerking. I think this needs to be added to the “write a completely original sentence” award. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/74 "2006-01-26T20:59:54Z")
(Er… **thread** , not “award.” Frak. Not havin’ a good post day here.) ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/75 "2006-01-26T21:19:18Z")
I dunno, I’d be willing to give it an award. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/76 "2006-01-26T21:39:30Z")
Yep, I think a Blew Ribbon may be in order. If there’s not a “Write an original sentence” thread, **Cervaise** sure outta start one. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/77 "2006-01-26T21:51:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Yep, I think a Blew Ribbon may be in order. We need to re-open the TMI Thread and have **lieu** go through and just scribble notes in the margins. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/78 "2006-01-26T22:50:29Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > If there’s not a “Write an original sentence” thread, **Cervaise** sure outta start one. [psst, looky here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354349) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/79 "2006-01-26T23:56:26Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Wouldn’t have it been way worse if she drank it all when the bowl got full? > > Sorry I think _I_ just gagged a little. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423/80 "2006-01-27T02:44:54Z")
Does it count if they are not strangers? Whilst in basic training I was able to witness, to my great delight two guys in a “rugged” contest, trying to prove which one was more manly. One ate a moth. The other ate the contents of an ashtray. The winner then chugged a spit glass from the local tobacco chewer. He won. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-things-youve-seen-strangers-do/341423.md?page=5)