Gross things you've seen strangers do?

Anybody else seriously reconsidering any inclination to shake the hands of strangers upon an introduction, lest they then become some unfortunate, modern day “Freshsnot toejam earwax dogjizz Mary”?

I think I’ll go shower again.

Weeeeeuuuuughhhh.

Booger-picks are the worst I’ve witnessed. Gah, this thread is hideous!!

I love you people.

A couple months ago, I caught someone picking her nose at a stop light. Nix that-- it looked like she was trying to scratch her brain. She was positioned a half car length and to the right of me, so I got to watch her unnoticed. Man, she really got into it… Digging for gold, I tell ya.

When my light turned green, I slowly moved forward, and gave her a short honk and a wave. :smiley:

If I had been AFG, I don’t think I could have just stood there behind the earwax licker. I probably would have said, “Well that just ruined my appetitie,” and walked off. Hey, if they’re going to pull that crap in public, I don’t have a problem calling them on it.

A couple of years ago I was in the ladies room, when the woman in the stall next to me dropped a pen. She left it there for a minute or so, then picked it up.

As I was at the sink washing my hands, she walked up to the sink next to me to wash hers. But she was holding that pen, so she put it in her mouth to free her hand.

I could not hide my grimace. I was truly disgusted.

Thank God, thank God, that someone else posted this. Because I totally don’t do anything nasty like that. But, you know, I’ve heard tell.

Yeah, that’s it.

If you think the guy who goes to the gym during lunch and doesn’t shower is gross…

imagine the guys who work with him who have to get that that paperwork in his desk onto which he has deposited that little “towel” he always uses there. :eek:

What? Did this guy open a new account every day? And did anyone ever tell him it’s passbook, not pissbook?

I used to work with a Chinese man who didn’t have quite the same set of sensibilities as anyone else in the building. He’d hock and spit into his trashcan, and fairly often take a *long * pair of scissors to trim his nosehairs at his desk. I wonder if he ever self-lobotomized himself doing that.

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!

shudders

In 1993 I took a taxi to the airport and the driver had a coffee cup in the front with him. Except he wasn’t drinking from it. He would occasionally clear his throat (quite loudly), and spit it into the cup.

I once watched a guy (FOAF) fellate a golden retriever. He did it on a bet. He won $50.

On preview, Achren, I’ve done that with my soft contacts (but only once, ever, and it was an emergency).

I feel sorry for the mods who have to read this thread.

Spit or swallow? I gotta know.

If he could suck his own ears clean, why use a key?

ooooooooooooookay then…THREE way race…

dog sucker, dog jerker, and spooge-feeder

man, even if you “win” this race, we all still lose.

That’s common practice with people who chew tobacco and don’t want to spit on the car seats.

The coffee cup part… not necessarily the throat-clearing.

I posted this in some other thread around here;

I was driving home from work and I was parked at a stop light next to a taxi cab. The driver was a good two knuckles deep in his nose and when the finger came out for air it went right into the mouth. He then proceeded to chew on the boogernut like a person trying to chew open a sunflower seed to extract the tender juicy insides. I think I actually gagged.

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.)

But why? Was he (the dude, not the dog) shunned afterwards? What would make someone be willing to do that, even on a bet? Holy freaking hell!

Of course this would be the place to reference the Doper who licked a dog’s asshole. If I could find the link. Although I have to say is a bit alarming how many threads come up for “analingus dog”.

[ul]A grown man picked his nose and ate the boogers with glee while sitting directly across from me on the bus just a week or so ago. He stared right at me the entire time he was doing it.[/ul]

[ul]A man blew a giant ball of snot out his nose onto the sidewalk while walking past my workplace last month. He did so by covering up one nostril and blowing hard out the other until the snot was dislodged. He actually flung his head forward for more momentum as he did it.[/ul]

[ul]While waiting for a bus on Hotel Street in Honolulu–a major transfer point with tons of people around–I watched a man walk up to a trash can, unzip his pants, whip it out and begin urinating on the trash can. It was broad daylight. Several people stood or were walking within 5 or 6 feet of him. At least 40 people stood across the street, watching in horror and disbelief.[/ul]

[ul]I used to sit across and facing a young gal who would pick her zits all day long. She did it casually, without even being aware she was doing it. She would be sitting there, editing stories on her computer, and squeezing her face so hard that blood and pus were visible from my vantage point. I finally had to talk to a manager about it, and he talked to her about it. I can’t even imagine how that conversation went.[/ul]

[ul]I worked next to a man who would eat at his cubicle. The little triangle at the front of his chair had about 1/16 of an inch of dried food matter stuck to it. His keyboard was sticky, with food particles clearly sticking out from the keys. Coffee and other stains covered his desk. Once, when he was out sick, we were asked to retrieve some things from his desktop, but none of us would even sit there without cleaning his whole station first. It took three rags and a whole lot of 409 just to clean off the armrests on his chair.[/ul]

[ul]I worked for a few weeks in a German restaurant in Hawaii Kai. I was a bit alarmed to see the pile of used rat traps sitting in the corner of the kitchen on my first day, but even more sickened when I discovered mouse, rat and cockroach turds all over the counters–counters on which drinking glasses are turned upside down until used. No one had cleaned under there in MONTHS. Needless to say, I never consumed anything there.[/ul]

People are disgusting.

My neighbor seemed to be jerking-off his German Shepherd for no other reason than the dog’s enjoyment. They were both on his front porch glider. The dog was facing him with his paws up on the guy’s shoulders. The odd thing is that the guy doing the jerking seemed oddly detached from it all. He had no readable facial expression and a beer in his off hand. The dog was humping pretty briskly.