# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/61 "2011-03-27T07:04:30Z")
Several years ago, I performed at a songwriter’s night in East Nashville. It was in a little hole-in-the-wall dive bar that served only beer, and then, only in cans (less dangerous when the fights broke out). The bartender appeared to be 65 if she was a day, had a missing front tooth, skin like leather(presumably from sun worship) and was attired in low-slung jeans and a leather halter top (all the better to show off the tats, I guess). I slipped into the ladies’ room after my performance. I made a decision right then and there that I’d rather step outside and use the facilities at the McDonald’s across the street, when the first thing I saw upon entry was a sign that read “please dont puke in the sink” scrawled on plywood with a black sharpie. My co-writer and I declined an invitation to perform there at a later date. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/62 "2011-03-27T07:13:04Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Uh… I kinda like the Saddle Tramps. They’re “trashy” in a different sense than the really frightening examples here (though leopard-print dresses would fit right in). I expect that anyone who _can_ find himself in the midst of a huge biker rally can’t be entirely unclear on the distinction. > > But then, I think of the LED mouthpieces as strictly candy-raver gear (also not necessarily a pejorative description, BTW)… the idea that they would sell well in a full-on biker scene seems pretty odd. I kinda liked them, too, and it wasn’t trashy in the scary sense, but there was a certain amount of context that led up to that evening. I used to go to Lake Tahoe and Reno on vacations with my grandmother. A few years ago, I went back. I was also planning on driving to Las Vegas and then Los Angeles, which put me in mind of _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ and the quest to find America. So, finding myself, utterly unplanned, in the middle of a biker rally, had a certain crystalizing effect on my perception of the moment. Hunter may have been looking for America, but I found it.[sup]\*[/sup] The thread is “trashiest thing you have ever seen”; maybe I’ve just led a sheltered life. Oh, the African-American gentleman was selling other things, too. I know he had flowers, and there was something else I can’t remember. I negelected to ask him how business was. - The second most “finding America” moment I have ever experienced was watching a guy teach his family how to play poker using M&Ms as chips. At the bottom of the Grand Canyon. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/63 "2011-03-27T07:59:58Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > No, pedestrians walk on the right, and the etiquette’s fairly strictly observed on London Underground escalators, where the traffic volume is serious. Unless I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying, this is wrong: you leave the left-hand side of the escalator free so people can run down it, and you stand/finger prostitutes on the right. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/64 "2011-03-27T08:09:44Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Unless I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying, this is wrong: you leave the left-hand side of the escalator free so people can run down it, and you stand/finger prostitutes on the right. You’re misinterpreting, but I expressed poorly. Right is for walking, or standing still on the escalator; left (on the escalator) is for overtaking. ---
**Author:** ![A.Gwilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@A.Gwilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.Gwilliam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/65 "2011-03-27T10:00:12Z")
Just found this, which offers a possible explanation as to why we walk up on the “wrong” side on escalators: [Mystery over Tube escalator etiquette cleared up by restored film](http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/london_film_festival/article6883065.ece) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/66 "2011-03-27T10:30:16Z")
The statue of Dodi and Diana in Harrods. A friends jailbird daughter wearing a see through black top to her grandfathers funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Sorrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sorrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sorrel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/67 "2011-03-27T10:44:54Z")
I worked in a bar, one day a few men came in after a funeral and by the look of them a very boozy wake. The oldest looking man (no teeth and no idea of personal hygiene) asked for a drink, I refused him but the bar owner (a butt sucker of magnitude) decided to serve him anyway. He sat at the bar with his pals and after 2 or 3 drams he threw up on the bar. He apologised and said/slurred he’d clear it up, he grabbed the cuff of his suit jacket and scooped/armed the vomit off the bar and into his lap. Then passed out and fell off his stool. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/68 "2011-03-27T10:52:00Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Unless I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying, this is wrong: you leave the left-hand side of the escalator free so people can run down it, and you stand/finger prostitutes on the right. As an Irishman who visits the UK frequently, I must thank you :- this is a point of English etiquette I’ve never really had clarified before. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/69 "2011-03-27T11:18:51Z")
> [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > …and in the parking lot was one of those huge-ass pickup trucks with the jacked-up tires - a Ford F-950 or whatever it was. Not especially unusual considering where I live, except that there was a gigantic decal, covering the entire back window, that said: “STILL STROKIN’ WHILE YOU’RE COMIN’!” Here in Texas we see a lot of those overgrown pickup trucks (duh). That decal was explained to me as part of the Dodge / Ford fanboy contest. Ford’s diesel engine is marketed as a “Power Stroke” while Dodge advertises theirs is made by “Cummins”. Bubba and Jim-Bob can’t resist that particular play on words. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/70 "2011-03-27T12:22:00Z")
**pullin** …strokin’…cummin… Got it! ---
**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, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/71 "2011-03-27T12:49:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 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.) Oh, he wasn’t wearing it, he was carrying it to collect the money in. ---
**Author:** ![Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zany_Zeolite_Zipper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/72 "2011-03-27T12:51:02Z")
I get eternal giggles from the Onan-Cummins line of generators. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/73 "2011-03-27T12:56:07Z")
> [@williambaskerville](#): > > As an Irishman who visits the UK frequently, I must thank you :- this is a point of English etiquette I’ve never really had clarified before. The fingering prostitutes bit? I should add, therefore, that one should also ask “with whom am I having the pleasure?”. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/74 "2011-03-27T13:20:20Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > **The statue of Dodi and Diana in Harrods.** > > A friends jailbird daughter wearing a see through black top to her grandfathers funeral. That’s pretty bad all right. For those like me who are clueless: [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story\_25-8-2005\_pg1\_11](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-8-2005_pg1_11) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3198/2608276133_e202e728ed_b.jpg "Harrod") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/memime/2608276133/) It really looks very little like her. And I’m a bit surprised at her state of relative undress. One would think that Dodi’s Father would have asked for some clothes to be put on her. . . ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/75 "2011-03-27T13:33:44Z")
I live in Florida. There’s not enough room for me to describe all the trashy things I’ve seen. Also, when I recall them, I realize that most of them are poverty-based, so they are maybe not as trashy as they might seem at first. I will relate my first memory of true trashiness, though. I was about 8 and at a close-to-the-beach vacation cottage my grandparents owned. The people who had a cottage behind us were sitting at a picnic table in their back yard, drinking cans of beer. At one point while I was observing them (at that time my family were strict Baptist teetotalers, so I was doing a Margaret Meade-like behavior observation) they handed a can to a toddler in their midst. Turns out he loved beer, so they kept giving it to him, and sure enough, eventually he was stumbling around, falling down, and so on, and all they did was laugh and laugh. ---
**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, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/76 "2011-03-27T14:38:53Z")
> [@Curious3d](#): > > Oh, he wasn’t wearing it, he was carrying it to collect the money in. I got that. But it immediately reminded me of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=532180). The original link is gone, but I found [this one](http://greensboring.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11298) that has the ad in it. That’s pretty damned trashy. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/77 "2011-03-27T15:03:23Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > The statue of Dodi and Diana in Harrods. Just needs a flag behind it… ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/78 "2011-03-27T15:13:16Z")
In my home state of West Virginia, about twenty years ago, I saw a car that had two of those signs displayed in the rear window. One of them read, “Baby on Board”. The other read, “If you’re rich, I’m single”. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/79 "2011-03-27T15:32:52Z")
**F. U. Shakespeare** , that is _one_ trashy baby… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/80 "2011-03-27T15:44:05Z")
This is secondhand and won’t win the thread, but a friend of mine was in his apartment one day after a rare heavy winter storm, when an enormously pregnant female neighbor (whom he had never met) knocked on his door to ask if he had a cigarette. He said no, and she went slipping and sliding her way down the treacherous stairs and across the icy parking lot to knock on more strangers’ doors in search of a smoke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=5)