While I’m sure it’s quite benign, I’ve just decided that putting food garbage into an area designed for food storage is on my list of gross-isms.:eek:
With the advent of automatic flush systems, some people don’t bother to look; they just hear the toilet flush and figure all’s well. :smack:
And of course, they’re all low-flow toilets…
Eating contests
Nose-picking
Keys in ears
Squishy tortillas.
Ricotta cheese.
People clipping their toenails or fingernails in public, particularly in the office next to my desk.
“Mouth noises,” like when people are chewing and it sounds like they are turning their food into mouthwash.
Worms, particularly where I don’t expect them.
People handing me warm, wet money. From their pants pockets, or out of their bra. Nasty, just nasty.
Also, when people stick paper money in their mouth while they dig in their pocket for change, and then hand that money to me. An alarmingly large percentage of paper money has fecal matter on it, to boot.
Smelling a burp. Far worse, IMHO, than smelling a fart. Farts just smell like farts; burps smell like curry, or hot dogs, or gyros. So freaking gross.
Of course, but I can edit that out of my mind, due to the necessity of partaking as a consumer in the modern day production process, by just assuming that mine is magically the only to escape any such fate. I can’t edit out the grimy palm of the cashier in front of me.
This is precisely why I can’t drink out of a can. In high school I bought a can of Diet Pepsi from the vending machine. As I prepared to crack it open, I saw brown, crusty, gritty matter around the rim. Turned me off of drinking from cans permanently. And this was 40 years ago.
I hate to tell you this, but that wasn’t mayonnaise. :eek:
You want to discuss sock monkeys? 
Spit, especially the goopy kind where someone coughs for a while then spits.
I’m having phobic reactions just typing this.
Chewing gum, used and gooey and sticky and disgusting, smeared on shoes or, worse, on my clothes. Ewww. Singapore has it right. Make the damn stuff illegal and cane folks in public for violation.
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)
Yes! 
Silverfish. Most insects don’t bother me, but silverfish gross me right out.
Of this whole thread, I gotta go with the silverfish…EW!!!
Babies pissing and pooping on me while I changed their diapers. I can vividly remember standing at the changing table crying while projectile liquid feces impacted my shirt. How do babies do that? Why? He thought it was hilarious of course, eating his little toes, and cooing while I sobbed. Monster.
Toe nail clipping in the office. Just don’t do that. Cubicles are not that private.
Worse, shaking hands with someone and their hand is wet. Here’s a screed I posted to facebook a while back
“if you’re about to shake someone’s hand, make sure your hand isn’t wet. Like, wipe it off on your shirt before you walk in the door. I hate that, it’s gross. Is it sweat? Is it lotion? Did you just wash them? Did you just pee on it? Were you holding a cold condensating can of soda? I don’t care, I don’t wanna know, just dry it off first”
Regarding the dirty soda cans thing, here’s a tip. When we (people in the food industry) buy food industry sized cases of soda, Pepsi products (Pepsi, Dt Pepsi, Mt Dew etc) come in open cases like this. Coke and Dt Coke (and I assume other Coke products) come in wrapped 32 pack cases like this. At least that’s how it is at my local Restaurant Depot. Could be different from location to location, sometimes Sam’s Club has better deals etc etc etc. The point is, if your local 7-11 is buying them in the open cases, they’re dirty. People have been shuffling them around, everyone has been handling them. They’ve been walked on at the warehouse so the employees can reach stuff on the next shelf up. They’ve been open in the backroom for a while.
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.
And, to make my life easier, for the love of god, if you knock over three cans when you grab the second one back, please, stand them back up. I swear a few times each day I have to go out there and stand all the drinks back up because, for some reason, no one wants the one in the front. Like it’s covered in feces, but the second one back is pristine.
Ya know what, if everyone grabs the second one back…it’s the new front row.
PS, I did yell at one of my employees for this a few months back. I told him he can grab the third Diet Dew if he wants, but then he has to fix the first two that he knocks over every single day.
NOOOOO!!
Miracle Whip?!?
Bleeeeech!!