I keep a Chap Stick at my desk at work. I tend to forget them until I need them and then of course don’t have them. Yesterday I notice that the little winder stick in the middle has just started to break through the stick.
This morning I go to apply some and the hole from the winder stick is completely bored out. I can formulate three possibilities:
The Chap Stick has somehow partially melted and the wax has amazing redistributed itself;
Someone screwed down the stick and removed the plug to mess with me; or
The person who sits at this desk in the evenings is using a stranger’s Chap Stick.
Nobody expects someone to use something that’s so obviously personal. I have a bad habit of keeping chapsticks and lipglosses in my pocket. Which sometimes bites me at laundry time.
Sabotage your chapstick! Dunk it in the toilet and keep it out. You’ll have to buy a new one, but now you know your thieving neighbor gets what is coming! Kinda like ass pennies.
Would you non-sharing Chapstick users be willing to drink from a bottle that someone else had been guzzling from?
If I’m out with someone and we are thirsty and have one bottle to drink from, we share it, and wiping the mouth of the bottle is in poor taste - it’s like saying “I think you are diseased.”
What TroubleAgain said. It would never occur to me to use something like a Chap Stick that belonged to someone else, especially someone I didn’t know. In a pinch I’ve borrowed my best friend’s lip balm, but to just pick up some random stick left on a desk and actually use it? Disgusting.
Yes I care. First, it’s rude to use other peoples’ stuff without asking. Second, I don’t know this person or what diseases they might have.
Evil Jodi would be tempted to rub it all over my butt and then put it back. But really I’d probably just throw it away and take that as a disgusting lesson on leaving personal hygiene items where other people can use them. You thought no one would use your chapstick because that’s icky, but once again you’ve underestimated people’s capacity for icky behavior.
Too right. I had a (fortunately inexpensive) favorite (flavored) chapstick once that a friend asked to borrow. Not wanting to be rude, I let her use it. But because I knew she was an oral herpes sufferer (and looked like she had a lesion starting), I just stuck it back in my pocket, and threw it away later, when she wasn’t around, to avoid hurting her feelings. Now, maybe I could have or couldn’t have gotten herpes from that, but I wasn’t about to take a chance. Why someone would use a random stranger’s chapstick is beyond me.