# The trashiest thing you have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038 "2011-03-26T05:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/41 "2011-03-27T00:15:47Z")
Just today I saw someone stub out a half-smoked cigarette and then walk into a restaurant with it tucked behind his ear. He was wearing a baseball cap, too, making it even nicer. To add that touch of incongruity, it was a sushi restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/42 "2011-03-27T00:27:49Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > Whoosh. small joke based on driving rules. must have forgotten the smiley. I am surprised they use opposite conventions for driving and walking, though. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/43 "2011-03-27T00:36:54Z")
I was all set to come in here and lecture people about class-based judgments… but no. Reading these responses, I am forced to concede that some things are genuinely, indisputably trashy. Socioeconomic status ain’t got nothing to do with it. My contribution, paltry in comparison, is the time I saw a woman in a halter top with jeans slung low on her hips, with a prominently displayed birth control patch on her netherregions. I have to admit I’m glad she’s being responsible, but damn. ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/44 "2011-03-27T02:09:13Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Are you kidding? That’s so much work. Do it the [easy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_-hn71YY8) way. To me that is a poor attempt at laziness. It lacks the negative environmental impact and social stigma that comes from walking your dog while driving your car. Not too mention no matter how long poochie trots on that treadmill he ain’t never gonna make it to the 7-11 so’s you can get your smokes and scratch tickets. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/45 "2011-03-27T02:17:34Z")
One of my favorite examples is a $500.00 car, usually a rusty four door, with a $1500.00 set of wheels on it. Double bonus points if it has baby seats in the back. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/46 "2011-03-27T02:24:40Z")
A mother feeding her baby a blue lollipop. Kid couldn’t have been older than four months. Took me about five minutes to pick my jaw up off the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Curious3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Curious3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curious3d)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/47 "2011-03-27T02:34:11Z")
I saw a woman attempt to shoot a ping pong ball out of her backside on stage at a wedding reception I crashed with some friends my senior year of high school. They also had two bands playing at the same time, one of which only had the bass drum from the kit so the drummer just sat there and stomped away, waving his drumsticks like a conductor. Oh, they also had a little person collecting money in a sombrero - I assume for a beer run. He was the only person in the room wearing a tux. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/48 "2011-03-27T03:03:12Z")
I knew a woman who, knowing she was at risk of losing the child to social services, did not drink alcohol the entire time during her pregnancy. As soon as the baby was born though she went out, got a whole bunch of those airline sized bottles of hard liquor. She said the baby absolutely loved them. ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/49 "2011-03-27T03:16:18Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > One of my favorite examples is a $500.00 car, usually a rusty four door, with a $1500.00 set of wheels on it. > > Double bonus points if it has baby seats in the back. I recently saw one of [these](http://thecheckerguy.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/phpPfeCbHPM.162184526.jpg) with a rusted body, wood panels peeling off, tooling down the road with shiny, gold-toned spinners. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/50 "2011-03-27T03:21:14Z")
> [@Curious3d](#): > > Oh, they also had a little person collecting money in a sombrero - I assume for a beer run. He was the only person in the room wearing a tux. The little person’s sombrero should have had a salsa bowl in the crown, and chips in the brim so that people could have chips and dip as he walked by. (I think there was a thread about that a while ago.) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/51 "2011-03-27T04:28:41Z")
A teenager in a tube top at her grandma’s funeral. It was summer, but still . . . ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/52 "2011-03-27T04:39:00Z")
So many memories to choose from. One top candidate would probably be Lucy the 65-year-old hooker sticking her tongue in my friend’s ear in a Juarez bar while we were in a fruitless search for the legendary donkey show. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/53 "2011-03-27T04:39:03Z")
Try to get a visual on this if you can. My daughter and I are at an intersection coming from the high school. On the yellow light, turning left from the opposite direction, is a woman in motorized wheel chair. She is wearing pajama pants and house slippers. She has a cigarette in one hand and a beer bottle clenched between her legs. She is pulling another, younger woman, wearing roller blades, by a rope, behind her chair. Roller blade woman has a cigarette in her mouth and is also wearing pajama pants. As they travel somewhat slower than normal traffic speed, the light turns red, but traffic cannot move until they clear the intersection. A frustrated teenager suggests that they, “GET THE HELL OUTTA THE WAY!” Rollerblade woman responds with the smugness of superiority, “I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT. I DON’T HAVE TO GO TO HIGH SCHOOL NO MORE!” ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/54 "2011-03-27T05:08:17Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > That is brilliant! And wrong. On so many levels. Sighs. I’ve seen this before…never t thougt it was trashy. Back when I had a dog, I used to let him out of my car so he could race me home. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/55 "2011-03-27T05:43:22Z")
A nine-month old being fed a bottle of drinkable yogurt with three spoons of sugar in it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/56 "2011-03-27T05:46:54Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > A nine-month old being fed a bottle of drinkable yogurt with three spoons of sugar in it. Ooh, that reminds me – a baby being fed a bottle of Coke with a rubber nipple over the bottle opening. I saw that on a bus once, and I heard a lot of harrumph noise from people I assume were parents, but no one actually scolded the mom out loud. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/57 "2011-03-27T05:51:23Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > Try to get a visual on this if you can. > > My daughter and I are at an intersection coming from the high school. On the yellow light, turning left from the opposite direction, is a woman in motorized wheel chair. She is wearing pajama pants and house slippers. She has a cigarette in one hand and a beer bottle clenched between her legs. She is pulling another, younger woman, wearing roller blades, by a rope, behind her chair. Roller blade woman has a cigarette in her mouth and is also wearing pajama pants. As they travel somewhat slower than normal traffic speed, the light turns red, but traffic cannot move until they clear the intersection. A frustrated teenager suggests that they, “GET THE HELL OUTTA THE WAY!” Rollerblade woman responds with the smugness of superiority, “I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT. I DON’T HAVE TO GO TO HIGH SCHOOL NO MORE!” You win. uses brain bleach now. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/58 "2011-03-27T06:35:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Girl whore. > > Don’t get me wrong; I love vaginas. But I don’t need to see that when I’m getting a burger. > > (Come to think of it, it might have been Carl’s Jr. Probably was. This was like 20 years ago.) Heh! Well, you were in Hollyweird, hence my question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/59 "2011-03-27T06:36:04Z")
No, colostomy bag hooker wins the thread so far. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/60 "2011-03-27T06:42:19Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > …It’s like one of those horror movie moments that won’t leave you alone. What happened to this woman for her to accept this horror as normal? Brag-able? I mean Jesus, what must her life have been? ☹ That couldn’t have been safe! For either participant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=4)