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WHAT is that person doing?
By: pierrotlunaire0 Date: January 27, 2024, 10:30 am
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Last night, my sister and I went out for dinner at a local
diner. At one point, a waitress went to a nearby table to clear
dishes, offer dessert, ask if anyone needed to box up their
food. One of the women picked up her empty plate and proceeded
to lick it while telling the waitress (as she dragged her tongue
across the plate) that she had enjoyed the meal. I whispered to
my sister, "Did you see that?" How could I miss, she replied,
her eyes bulging from her head.
So have you ever witnessed some act that was so outrageously bad
etiquette that you couldn't believe what you were seeing?
Years and years ago, my parents took me out to a casual
restaurant. Suddenly, my mother's eyes went wide. The man behind
my back had decided to thoroughly pick his teeth with a steak
knife, very bad manners, but also more than a little dangerous
(my mother said he was digging vigorously in his back molars
while also talking).
#Post#: 80896--------------------------------------------------
Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: Aleko Date: January 27, 2024, 11:14 am
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To be fair, there are parts of the world where - in some classes
of society at least - not only is picking one's teeth at table
perfectly acceptable, for men using one's own personal bladed
weapon for the purpose is considered dashingly macho. But I've
never heard of any culture in which licking the plate is a done
thing.
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Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: Rose Red Date: January 27, 2024, 12:12 pm
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Gross. The woman in the first example should have asked the
waitress for bread or something to pick up any leftover sauce.
It's so weird that I'd wonder if she's making a tiktok video
for.....views? laughs?
The second example is unappetizing too. I can handle seeing a
toothpick for a few seconds, but I hate seeing a full dental
cleaning at the table.
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Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: Rose Red Date: January 27, 2024, 7:27 pm
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Oh man. Since you asked for stories, here goes.
After my above post, I went to the library and saw a man sitting
there reading a book and picking his nose. Not a quick scratch
either. He was really going to town. He wasn't sitting in a
corner, but was in the middle of a busy area.
All the librarians' desks and counters have a box of tissue and
the bathroom had TP, so there was no reason to get so
comfortable with that act. He seemed to be enjoying his book
though, LOL.
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Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: Starry Diadem Date: January 28, 2024, 1:21 am
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A train, coming home from Oxford one evening, a very crowded
carriage, and a young man going full out on removing his excess
nasal hair — with tweezers and a small magnifying mirror.
Thankfully he was sitting at the other side of the aisle in the
same row as me, so I could turn away and bury myself in my book
to blot out the sight. If I’d been facing him (we were in the
middle of the carriage where two rows face each other with a
table between them), I do not think I could have been gracious
enough to keep silent.
#Post#: 80953--------------------------------------------------
Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: Lula Date: February 8, 2024, 6:01 pm
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As someone who has worked in a big-box store forever, I'm not
exaggerating when I suggest you reconsider putting any purchases
you wouldn't place on a stranger's bathroom floor into a
shopping cart.
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Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: holly firestorm Date: February 12, 2024, 7:34 pm
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[quote author=Starry Diadem link=topic=2585.msg80899#msg80899
date=1706426480]
A train, coming home from Oxford one evening, a very crowded
carriage, and a young man going full out on removing his excess
nasal hair — with tweezers and a small magnifying mirror.
Thankfully he was sitting at the other side of the aisle in the
same row as me, so I could turn away and bury myself in my book
to blot out the sight. If I’d been facing him (we were in the
middle of the carriage where two rows face each other with a
table between them), I do not think I could have been gracious
enough to keep silent.
[/quote]
I used to be "friends" with a boy about 30 years old, from a
well to do family, too. A group of us were sitting around a
table playing a story telling game and he proceeded to dig a
finger up his nose and then eat it. I mildly rebuked him for
doing so and....he go furious at me for EMBARASSING HIM! ;D
#Post#: 80987--------------------------------------------------
Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: cymbaline246 Date: February 19, 2024, 10:51 am
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Some friends and I were eating in a family-style chain
restaurant.
A couple tables away, a couple had cleared an area on the table
and were changing their baby's diaper. They were about as close
to the restrooms as one could get.
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Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: SnappyLT Date: February 25, 2024, 4:31 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=2585.msg80898#msg80898
date=1706405243]
Oh man. Since you asked for stories, here goes.
After my above post, I went to the library and saw a man sitting
there reading a book and picking his nose. Not a quick scratch
either. He was really going to town. He wasn't sitting in a
corner, but was in the middle of a busy area.
All the librarians' desks and counters have a box of tissue and
the bathroom had TP, so there was no reason to get so
comfortable with that act. He seemed to be enjoying his book
though, LOL.
[/quote]
Your story reminded me of when I taught fourth grade in the US
for a few years several decades ago. I moved around my classroom
a lot during lessons, so when I'd notice someone really picking
at his nose it was easy for me to quietly take a box of Kleenex
from my desk and offer it to the nose-picker without making a
fuss.
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Re: WHAT is that person doing?
By: SnappyLT Date: February 25, 2024, 4:41 pm
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This is a story from at least fifteen years ago, if not longer.
One day I was grocery shopping and came upon what I thought was
a poor soul who was carrying on a conversation with herself. She
was talking up a storm, all by herself in the canned good aisle.
I was feeling sorry for her, thinking she was delusional or
something like that.
I turned at the end of the aisle, though, glanced back, and saw
that she had a white rectangular-shaped "thing" hanging out of
one ear.
Before that day I had never seen a hands-free cell-phone device
like that. Guess she was really carrying on a conversation with
a real person after all.
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