# So, I shot a Squeegee Kid in the face today... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702 "2008-05-18T00:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/21 "2008-05-19T05:18:21Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] He made a ‘gaaah’ noise and ran off. [/QUOTE] Obviously just winged him. Better luck next time. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/22 "2008-05-19T10:02:09Z")
Yet when you’re driving down the highway with bugs splattering all over your windshield, there’s not a single one of those bastards in sight. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/23 "2008-05-19T13:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Max the Immortal] Yet when you’re driving down the highway with bugs splattering all over your windshield, there’s not a single one of those bastards in sight. [/QUOTE] Because then it would be work to clean off the windshield. And they’re not on the corner because they like working. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/24 "2008-05-19T14:15:22Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Because then it would be work to clean off the windshield. And they’re not on the corner because they like working. [/QUOTE] It’s also hard to clean the window of a car traveling 75 mph. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/25 "2008-05-19T18:23:09Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] It’s also hard to clean the window of a car traveling 75 mph. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Sure, but then that _would_ be worth paying a dollar to see. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/26 "2008-05-19T18:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=Gorsnak] Obviously just winged him. Better luck next time. [/QUOTE] Made him a Unitarian. Before, he was just a unit. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/27 "2008-05-19T18:30:28Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] There’s an episode of Instant Star (a Canadian show) that has the lead and her friend stop to eat at a Chinese place. The owner comes over all agitated and tells them that “We don’t serve squeegee kids.” This confused me because: a. they were musicians, not window washers - they didn’t coincidentally have any supplies for window washing with them either. b. that seems really rude and randomly discriminatory [/QUOTE] Maybe the owner meant that squeegee kids are not part of his menu… ---
**Author:** ![Timor\_Vitae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Timor\_Vitae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timor_Vitae)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/28 "2008-05-19T18:58:49Z")
Please don’t give anyone a faceful of windshield-wiper fluid. It’s based on methanol, and is very, very poisonous. It’s not water, or anything like it. A cite: [Windshield washer fluid: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002803.htm) Delurking just to say this – sorry to start off in such an annoying fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/29 "2008-05-19T19:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=Timor Vitae] Please don’t give anyone a faceful of windshield-wiper fluid. It’s based on methanol, and is very, very poisonous. It’s not water, or anything like it. [/QUOTE] I’m not seeing the downside. ---
**Author:** ![MovingTarget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@MovingTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovingTarget)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/30 "2008-05-19T20:42:24Z")
\*stands up and claps for **Spoons** that was beautiful man. Very nicely done. And luckily, I don’t live in a place with these squeege kids, but if I did, you can bet your ass I’d be duplicating the actions of the OP, methanol or no. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/31 "2008-05-19T21:49:53Z")
[QUOTE=Timor Vitae] Please don’t give anyone a faceful of windshield-wiper fluid. It’s based on methanol, and is very, very poisonous. It’s not water, or anything like it. [/QUOTE] Of course it is poisonous – all the better for shooting the squeegee kids. ---
**Author:** ![Timor\_Vitae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Timor\_Vitae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timor_Vitae)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/32 "2008-05-19T22:23:36Z")
Ah, I get it. Risking seriously injuring someone is an appropriate response if that person is sufficiently startling or annoying. This is not the MB for me, I see. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/33 "2008-05-19T22:26:32Z")
[QUOTE=Timor Vitae] Ah, I get it. Risking seriously injuring someone is an appropriate response if that person is sufficiently startling or annoying. This is not the MB for me, I see. Never mind. [/QUOTE] A squirt of washer fluid in the face will not cause serious injury. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/34 "2008-05-20T00:16:02Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] We have squeegee kids and panhandlers galore here in Victoria, and the Tim Horton’s my husband and I stopped at last night was advertising a HIRING FAIR, with leaflets and sandwich board type displays touting the benefits of working there. Help Wanted signs everywhere (mostly in retail, but that’s where I’m noticing it) and still… [/QUOTE] To be fair, I can’t imagine many places that would give jobs to people who are homeless, which many, if not most, of the squeegee kids and panhandlers probably are. ---
**Author:** ![DCTrekkie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dctrekkie/32/18862_2.png) [@DCTrekkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCTrekkie)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/35 "2008-05-20T10:26:55Z")
[QUOTE=Timor Vitae] Ah, I get it. Risking seriously injuring someone is an appropriate response if that person is sufficiently startling or annoying. This is not the MB for me, I see. Never mind. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Muffin] A squirt of washer fluid in the face will not cause serious injury. [/QUOTE] Yes it will, I’ve been squirted with washer fluid a few times. and I’m actually dead now. Oh wait, no I’m not, I’m perfectly fine. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/36 "2008-05-20T10:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=DCTrekkie] Yes it will, I’ve been squirted with washer fluid a few times. and I’m actually dead now. Oh wait, no I’m not, I’m perfectly fine. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Jebus!! Now we have zombie squeegee kids 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/37 "2008-05-20T12:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] A squirt of washer fluid in the face will not cause serious injury. [/QUOTE] Probably not. But what if you squirt them in the face, and they get it in the eyes or mouth? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/38 "2008-05-20T12:45:31Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Probably not. But what if you squirt them in the face, and they get it in the eyes or mouth? [/QUOTE] Well they shouldn’t have their ugly mushes up close to your screen should they? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/39 "2008-05-20T14:26:19Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Probably not. But what if you squirt them in the face, and they get it in the eyes or mouth? [/QUOTE] Blink and spit. Or jump back in agony only to fall under the wheels of a passing transport. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702/40 "2008-05-20T15:18:07Z")
Look, I get it. Squeegee kids are annoying. Why does that mean anyone should sink to their level? Squirting them in the face is just childish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-shot-a-squeegee-kid-in-the-face-today/449702.md?page=3)