Seeing someone lick his fingers freaks me out. Not the, “ew, that’s gross” kind of freaking out, but the cringing, gagging, moving-as-far-away-as possible-from-the-offender kind. all I can think is why would you wanna put spit anywhere on your body willingly?. Excluding erotic spittle, of course. Upon seeing this amusing spectacle, friends use every opportunity to lick their fingers so that I can supply the day’s entertainment. Those aquaintances call me an anal retentive psycho, but I don’t think it’s really psychotic, exactly.
So, I guess the whole purpose of this thread, (and we’ll see if I can figure out how to underline and center) is
[c] Am I truly an anal retentive psycho, or are there others out there like me?[/c]
Why wouldn’t you? It’s already in your mouth, for crying out loud. What harm is it going to do to your outsides that it wouldn’t do to your insides?
I am explicitly talking here about the situation you describe: licking one’s own fingers. Now, if you want to say that your problem is with people getting their spittle on other people, then I can get on that bus. But until then, I guess I’m not seeing your point of view.
Kneadtoknow-yikes; well, i guess that means you think I’m an anal retentive freak.:). Actuallyk, I do realize it comes from my own body, but doesn’t mean I have to like it. I even hate to spit when I run.
rocking chair-yes, I completely agree. It’s mostly the elderly that do that; whenever they go through my line at Publix, they always put spit on their cash.
ponders
Maybe it’s not the act of licking the fingers, but the fact that they’re touching something after. even if they wash their hands, they have to touch the sink.
Finger licking grosses me out to no end. Not only is the spit-on-your-fingers part nasty, but also the whatever-is-on-your-hands-goes-in-your-mouth thing. Unless you’ve just washed your hands, it’s totally disgusting. It’s lick licking every doorknob, chair back, steering wheel, etc that you come across. GROSS. Plus there is just the generic, salty, dirty&sweat component.
My gag reflex is generally called into play when I see someone lick their fingers.
ponders
well, I could always eat w/ my eyes closed…
I really am getting better. The other day I actually let not one but two people drink from the same bottle I was drinking from, and drunk after them. Amazing feat, I know, so this risk taker feels like that he’ll be over this part of his personality in, oh, say ten years.
looks at Jack Batty’s posts
AAAH! flees like a Catholic in the Bible Belt
Tell me, Teppei, were you an only child? I just ask because I think if you grow up, as did I, with an older and a younger brother, as well as a baby sister, you get a little more desensitized to such things. Germs are a matter of course and you just don’t worry about them as much.
Billy Jo Casta: The way I figger it, if you hadn’ta killed him, he just would-a died of somethin’ else"
(from “Oedipus Tex” by P.D.Q. Bach)
but now that you mention it, my older sister did spit chococlate into my spaghettio’s when I was 8, and made me eat it so she didnt’ get in trouble for me not eating(she wasn’t a nice babysitter at the time).
And my mom used to spit in a cloth and clean off my face in the church parking; it smelled really bad- I think I puked once because of it.
sudden remembrance
Oh, and there was this when I was in preschool, and everyone smelled the freshly sqeezed lemonade (very difficult to come by in the poor area we lived in), and when I shiffed, the ‘teacher’ came in and saw me, and claimed I was licking the top, and dumped the lemonade.
That would make an association of spit and evil, wouldn’t it?
(whammo-lmao, btw)
well, now I think I understand.
if i get food/soda/anything edible on my fingers i’ll lick it off
of course, i also chew on random grass, plants, stalks, and leaves that i find around me (i live out in the country so this is vaguely safe, also i KNOW what i’m eating it’s not poisonous, but still everybody gives me odd looks) so i guess i’m not the expert on what not to put into one’s mouth am i?
I am proud to say I was one of the people to drink out of Teppei’s bottle, (and he got mad cause I wasnt supposed to)
We’re very proud of him, he’s made progress.
BTW I dont lick my fingers when I eat ribs, but that’s because I dont care much for BBQ sauce. I lick them when I eat other things though, and I always point it out to teppei.
rainchikki-:eek:
j/k
Actually, I ate dirt when I was younger. Paper too; tho recycled paper didn’t taste nearly as good as regular. That was when I lived in a Mill town in MA. I also chewed on onion grass when I lived in East Bumblef**k, VA. Very tasty, tho not too much like onions. The smell was very deceiving.
IQ- you do too lick em when you eat ribs, every time we go to Applebees and you order em at least. And you point it out then too. so
I’m more of a non-finger licker liker, i tend to use my napkin instead… but then, i used to eat my napkin at the end of the meal too. (it had entertainment value) and i must agree, that recycled stuff tastes much worse.
