# Your "Gross-isms". **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771 "2015-07-10T14:46:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/41 "2015-07-11T02:39:34Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I think I’m going to put French kissing on the list. I have no problem with “regular” kissing. I’m not bothered by other unsanitary things I might do with my mouth (including oral sex). It’s not just a germs or dirt kind of reaction: there’s just something gross about people’s tongues in other people’s mouths. > > (Isn’t there? How is it just me who feels this way? _Sigh_) It isn’t just you. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/42 "2015-07-11T02:39:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Getting to the bottom of a jar of mayonnaise and finding a condom. Bleeech! > [@Honey](#): > > I hate to tell you this, but that wasn’t mayonnaise. :eek: At my store we do catering in to doctor’s offices. A while back we had a lunch at a OB/GYN. The person doing the delivery left a 16oz container Ranch dressing in his car so after he was done setting up the order he ran back down to grab it. He said that when he walked in, with just this container of ranch dressing he was tempted to loudly say “Will this be enough, or do you need more?” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/43 "2015-07-11T03:22:46Z")
Dog drool; think “Turner and Hooch.” Yes, I’m aware of my user name. I don’t drool. (Maybe on the pillow.) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/44 "2015-07-11T03:30:57Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > At my store we do catering in to doctor’s offices. A while back we had a lunch at a OB/GYN. The person doing the delivery left a 16oz container Ranch dressing in his car so after he was done setting up the order he ran back down to grab it. He said that when he walked in, with just this container of ranch dressing he was tempted to loudly say “Will this be enough, or do you need more?” This made my day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/45 "2015-07-11T04:59:26Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > An no matter which one you get, some kid that was just handling money, eating lunch and picking his nose just put it in the cooler 2 hours ago. Grabbing the second one back isn’t going to be any better than the front one, just wipe it off or ask if you can wash it. When I buy milk at the supermarket (in the plastic gallon jugs), I always go for the second or third one back, or farther. It’s not because I think it’s cleaner, it’s because I think it’s colder, and has been colder for as long as it’s been in the display case. We customers are crazy. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/46 "2015-07-11T12:23:09Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > My cat or dog’s wet (when I don’t know what it’s wet from) paw touching my skin. > > Sitting on a public toilet that is still warm from the last person that sat on it. The warm toilet seat doesn’t bother me, since the one ply of TP I put down first creates an impervious cootie-shield. Science still can’t perfect such a perfect barrier, or so I tell myself. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/47 "2015-07-11T13:38:02Z")
Yeah, silverfish and gum gross me out too. ---
**Author:** ![CalBak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@CalBak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalBak)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/48 "2015-07-11T13:53:55Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I think I’m going to put French kissing on the list. \ > > (How is it just me who feels this way? _Sigh_) You’re not the only one, I’ve always hated it. When I worked in retail a women handed me her hot sweaty boob money so I agree with **EmilyG** that it’s nasty. Seeing and hearing some one gag is pretty gross. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/49 "2015-07-11T13:55:30Z")
I have to do a bit of computer support. Really folks, don’t treat your keyboard like it’s a McDonalds meal tray. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/50 "2015-07-11T14:06:34Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > When I buy milk at the supermarket (in the plastic gallon jugs), I always go for the second or third one back, or farther. It’s not because I think it’s cleaner, it’s because I think it’s colder, and has been colder for as long as it’s been in the display case. > > We customers are crazy. Why would the one in the back be cold for longer than the one in the front…which started out in the back? I’ll give you that the expiration date is probably farther out, but I’m not following you on the colder thing. Reach in or walk in (loaded from behind), either way, I can’t make sense of that. If you’re just thinking that the door opening and closing warms the front one, it’s not that the warm air only warms the front one and doesn’t move back further. Just like the cool air circulates in the entire case, any warm air that gets past the blowers circulates around the entire case as well. Also, consider that ones in the back may have just been put in there and might have been out at room temp for the last 30 minutes while a busy clerk got side tracked. Now they’re going to get even warmer as you shop around in the store and drive home in your hot car. Based on that, you’d be best off taking the one in the front…that’s the one that’s been in the cooler the longest. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/51 "2015-07-11T14:07:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I have to do a bit of computer support. Really folks, don’t treat your keyboard like it’s a McDonalds meal tray. [Don’t forget the mouse over.](https://xkcd.com/237/) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/52 "2015-07-11T14:26:59Z")
> [@CalBak](#): > > When I worked in retail a women handed me her hot sweaty boob money so I agree with **EmilyG** that it’s nasty. What? You must be thinking of another poster, because I’ve never even heard of sweaty boob money until this thread. But yeah, now that you mention it, it does sound gross. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/53 "2015-07-11T14:34:17Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > What? You must be thinking of another poster, because I’ve never even heard of sweaty boob money until this thread. But yeah, now that you mention it, it does sound gross. Anyone with sweaty boob\* money they do not want, PM me for my mailing address. \*man-boob money not applicable. offer not good in Georgia (either one) or the Czech Republic. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/54 "2015-07-11T15:50:24Z")
^ You’ll have to send him a post-dated Czech, instead. ---
**Author:** ![CalBak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@CalBak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalBak)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/55 "2015-07-11T15:59:42Z")
It was some one else. I should have went back up and looked. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/56 "2015-07-11T16:19:46Z")
Those icky little wooden paddles some people use to eat ice cream. And ice that comes on wooden sticks. They just totally gross me out. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/57 "2015-07-11T19:42:14Z")
> [@CalBak](#): > > It was some one else. I should have went back up and looked. **Why Child** at Post #26. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/58 "2015-07-11T21:09:08Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Sticky stuff… ewww… I hate anything sticky. \ Me too. Dirty or greasy I can handle, but not sticky. It’s probably a good thing I never had kids. A couple of people mentioned French kissing, I’m not a fan either. Oral sex is fine (more than fine actually :)) but keep your tongue out of my mouth. Sweaty boob money is just gross. Sweaty sock money too. I used to work in a credit union and we’d always have people coming in fishing their money out of their bras, their socks, their shoes, God knows where else. Eeugh… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/59 "2015-07-11T21:30:16Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Dog drool; think “Turner and Hooch.” > > Yes, I’m aware of my user name. > > I don’t drool. > > (Maybe on the pillow.) You’re right, that’s just nasty. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771/60 "2015-07-11T21:51:59Z")
Years ago I worked in two different animal clinics for a total of 4 years as a receptionist/Veterinary Assistant. My colleagues were somewhat amazed that nothing seemed to gross me out. Sometimes when we had unusual surgeries scheduled - anything beyond your run-of-the-mill neuter or spay - I’d ask for permission to watch. One time I went next door to the Chinese restaurant and purchased some lunch first. I stood on a chair in the corner of the room (well away from patient and Dr.) watching in amazement while enjoying some nice spicy Szechuan Beef. Even anal glands being expressed didn’t phase me. And believe me the smell is just horrid. Some of my coworkers took it as a personal challenge to try to find something, anything, that would make me say, “ewww, that is gross!” And one day it finally happened. Maggots. Maggots in large pus filled abscesses on the base of a dog’s tail. First I heard and smelled them. Then saw about 50+ munching away on the rotting, bloody flesh of this poor K-9. Oh-my-god! SO GROSSS! They laughed and laughed and gave each other high-fives as I ran out of the back gagging. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gross-isms/724771.md?page=4)