I’m in a class where our professor gets a little excited and bumps against the table quite a bit. One day, he bumped the table and his pencil rolls off it onto the floor and under a desk.
This girl in the front row picks up the pencil from under her desk.
With her bare foot, between her toes.
And then proceeds to lay the pencil back on top of the professor’s binder on the lecture table.
EEEEeeeeeewwww. I absentmindedly put my pencaps in my mouth, and sometimes my pencils, especially if I’m typing … EW, ew, ew. :eek:
I’ve been picking things up with my toes all my life. Learned it in India as a small child. My father used to complain I was a peasant every time I did it. Didn’t let it stop me. When I had hand surgery a couple years ago it was very useful, saving having to lean over and make my poor throbbing hand scream even louder.
Her feet are probably cleaner than your pencils to begin with, if that makes you feel any better.
There’s nothing wrong with picking things up with one’s toes! It saves bending over, and it makes a fun trick (you know, like balancing a spoon on your nose.) I probably wouldn’t do it in class, but if it was summer and I was wearing slip-ons… maybe.
I would worry far more about floor germs than foot germs. You are talking about a college, right? All the college classroom floors I’ve ever seen have been highly dubious at best. (Shouldn’t chew your pencils anyway… aren’t you afraid of splinters?)
Point taken. But still… shudder Toejam to me is a lot more repulsive than dust/dirt you can brush off a pencil. Depends on your point of view, I suppose.
My apologies to folks… I didn’t mean to open a can of worms. It’s one thing if I pick up my own things with my feet from my apartment floor. I just get grossed out when people have their feet out of their flip-flops, slide them around the floor, THEN pick other people’s things up with their feet. (This was during Missouri’s recent and all-too-brief hot spell, too.) Again, I didn’t mean to offend anyone. :smack: That’s the last time that I try to express a situation in words that you just kind of had to be there for…
The words ‘excited’ and ‘girl’ and ‘bare foot’ actually er, pleased me.
But that’s probably because I imagined it somewhat differently than it probably was - as a kind of soft-porn scene where the teacher ‘accidentally’ drops his pencil, then the sexy student in the short skirt picks the pencil up with her (clean) bear foot, then procedes to put it on the table - still with her foot!
I have long toes and can pick up just about anything with them, among doing other things. I used to have a boy frined with a foot fedish He was a very happy camper;)
I can pick things up with my toes. I do it frequently when I am barefoot. Most times my balance is good enough that I can pick something up with my toes–while standing–and deliver it to one of my hands.
A friend was completely dumbfounded when he first saw me do this. We’d been hiking in the mountains an had reached our destinations. He asked me to hand him a stick that was floating in the water. I was quite comfortable resting on my rock, so i dropped my leg over, grabbed the stick by its end between my thumb and index toe (only my index toes are opposable) and footed the stick over to him.
He had a really wierd look in his eyes when he took it from me.
I used to be able to write my name with a pencil stuck between my toes. I don’t know if I still can. I haven’t tried it in many years. The footwriting even looked like my handwriting.
Well I can pick up things with my toes too, and I do it all the time. But I wouldn’t do it to someone else’s pencil. Some things aren’t meant to be shared.
I had a boss who wuld not only floss his teeth during story conferences, but he would run his fingers down the floss, ball it up and flick it across the room.
He would also bicycle to work, then go into his office and change out of his Big Wet Shorts into long pants. But he would leave the Big Wet Shorts hanging on the coatrack to dry, so every time you came into his office, you would be faced with the Big Wet Shorts.
Thanks for getting us back on track Eve. Big wet shorts in the office. Now that’s gross.
Try this on for size. My bother and I were on a swim team in grade school. While running through the locker room late to practice my broth cuts the top of his shoulder on a piece of metal poking dangerously out from a mangled looker. It cut an almost perfectly oval section of skin not quite completely off his shoulder, about 3/4" wide. It’s not really bleeding so we don’t panic. We walk up to my mother who’s sitting in the stands and tell her. She proceeds to give us a minor anatomy lecture. “Move your arm Joe” she said. Now see that sort of white reflective tissue, that the muscle sheath." “Move your arm foreword Joe. Now you can see two minor muscle groups here…” It was surreal. She was an ER nurse, had been at that time for about 15 years. Nothing fazed her.
She took Joe to the ER and he got the flap of sink stitched back down. I had to practice. In the following weeks we learned about wound care and scar tissue formation.
I was once sitting in an archaeology class when the professor, who was standing up in front of the class lecturing, proceeded to pull a pair of clippers from his back pocket and clip his fingernails, never once stopping the lecture. I was appalled, and it’s the only thing I still remember from the class.
Was she wearing a skirt? It would’ve been even more impressive if instead of picking it up with her toes, she’d squated over the pencil, rolled onto her back and shot it back at him.
My history teacher freshman year of high school was fairly disgusting.
His desk faced the students, and he was keen on sitting on it, feet dangling, while he lectured us. I guess he REALLY thought no one was paying attention to him, because he would pick his nose right there in front of everyone, then proceed to roll the booger into a ball with his fingers, look at it for a few seconds, then absentmindedly flick it into the trashcan! :eek:
He also kept lotion in his desk drawer that he used for the sole purpose of applying it to the bald portion of his head.
