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Yucky things you've seen people do in public

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PearlyDewDrops · 16/08/2020 11:40

Okay this is completely lighthearted!

I was making a bacon sandwich this morning and whilst looking for the ketchup, I spotted the brown sauce. This reminded of the time when I saw a guy in the cafe in Asda rip the top off a brown sauce sachet and suck out the contents!!!!!

It still horrifies me to this day.

Anyone else with yucky stories to entertain me with (it's raining here and I have teenagers who haven't emerged from their beds yet)?

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Blankblankblank · 16/08/2020 11:53

A man out jogging pressed a finger to one nostril then blew the snot out of his open nostril. He swapped and did the other side. Made me retch. How hard is it to carry a tissue FGS?

RunningAwaywiththeCircus · 16/08/2020 11:58

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Yukkalye · 16/08/2020 12:00

Oh Pearly that's revolting. Thank god I don't like brown sauce and have never bought any in Asda or elsewhere! Why would you do that? I mean, if you're thirsty you'd neck a water. If you're hungry you'd scoff a bag of crisps (well, I would) but why suck some brown sauce?

I'm not even going to tell you the worst thing I've seen, it'll put everyone off their Sunday dinners!

FedUpofLockdown123 · 16/08/2020 12:05

@Blankblankblank

A man out jogging pressed a finger to one nostril then blew the snot out of his open nostril. He swapped and did the other side. Made me retch. How hard is it to carry a tissue FGS?
I came on to this thread to post the same thing. The guy next door to me is a cyclist and every day when he gets home he cools down in the garden, drink of water etc then he leaves his garden to empty his nostrils on the path outside our houses. I go in the house now when he arrives home as it makes me feel so sick.
TiptopJ · 16/08/2020 12:09

Saw a man urinating on the wall underneath an atm machine. It was the middle of the day, outside a shopping centre and there was a McDonalds right next to the cash point if he was that desperate. Disgusting fucker!

milkjetmum · 16/08/2020 12:12

I have had the displeasure of someone flossing their teeth at their desk in my shared office, someone plucking their chin hairs poolside and toenails being cut on the train ConfusedShock

ureterr1blemuriel · 16/08/2020 12:15

I was in a sauna at a UK hotel and there was a man dry shaving in there 🤢

DailyKegelReminder · 16/08/2020 12:36

I've also seen the Snot blowing from people jogging, grim. Saw a woman sitting on a park bench, spit on her hands and wipe the bottom of her feet.

Last week we were having a picnic at our local park, the toddler next to us began to choke on her pasta, she managed to cough it out with some help from who I presume was her DM. People asked if she was ok etc As you can imagine there was a lot of saliva and mushy pasta spat out on her DMs hand, DM put it straight in her mouth and ate it Envy then wiped her hands on her jeans.

PearlyDewDrops · 16/08/2020 12:41

@Blankblankblank
Bleurgh! I'd forgotten some people do this. Revolting!

@RunningAwaywiththeCircus
Oh no. Just why?

@Yukkalye
Exactly! No need. Ooh go on. I want to know now!

@FedUpofLockdown123
I don't blame you. Bloody awful.

@TiptopJ
Why do men do this? And in such a public place? Gross!

Thank you all. Loving them (despite being tickled stomached). Keep 'em coming.

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GreyGardens88 · 16/08/2020 12:44

Saw a man drop one of those pizza bread things in Lidl face down onto the shop floor, he picked it up and put it back on the display

tectonicplates · 16/08/2020 12:50

Chewing gum
Licking fingers when turning pages

Both are disgusting.

imnotimportant · 16/08/2020 12:51

My friend and I went to the cake and bake show in Excel years ago , probably the very first one as the carpark was still all rubble , we were watching a lady demonstrating how to make a flower out of icing paste and she went to stick a pearl on which wouldn't stick so she licked her finger and wet the petal and stuck it on with silva , my friend and I looked at each other in disbelief

deathswiftlyfollows · 16/08/2020 12:52

I saw a chap get turned over inside a portaloo at a festival
Was horrific

imnotimportant · 16/08/2020 12:52

** petal

Feralkidsatthecampsite · 16/08/2020 12:52

A tourist parked outside our house last summer and changed a nappy on the seat..
Scruffy fucker left it in the gutter.

EatsShootsAndRuns · 16/08/2020 12:54

I was in a pub a few years ago and saw a customer order a glass of wine. The server said, it's not going to be very chilled, it's only just gone in, I'll pour you one and you can see what you think. Customer tastes it, agrees it's not chilled and declines it. The server then pours the glass back into the bottle and returns it to the chiller.

DustbinTimberlake · 16/08/2020 12:54

I’ve seen several people changing dirty nappies in and around soft play areas, no mat, and then not wash their hands Envy

pigeonfarts · 16/08/2020 12:58

-Men pissing up against wall

-People on public transport (or even out in public) picking nose, sneezing and coughin

  • Women who go out with their arses on show. Like the woman who wore fishnet shorts and a thong underneath the other day- attention seeker!

-drunks vomiting everywhere. Word on the bus or tube

  • Alocholics or tramps stinking up the tube trains and well
darkandstormy86 · 16/08/2020 13:00

I hate people burping in public!! Really loud. It's gross. Spitting is also a hate of mine.

BenWyatt · 16/08/2020 13:04

Once saw a lady on a train take out each contact lens, pop it in her mouth, then take it out and put it back in her eye!!

CarolVordermansArse · 16/08/2020 13:04

Pub with no baby changing facilities but plenty of room in the Ladies and a small side room for the pool table. Couple in there changing their baby on the pool table, next to the seating area where food was being served.

Little girl in another pub/restaurant in one of the high chairs. She was so wet her back was drenched and her clothes pulling down when she was lifted out. Must have been like it for hours. She was lifted out but not to be taken to change, just out of the door, leaving a drenched chair for the next customers. Told the staff but they just left it there.

Oldbagface · 16/08/2020 13:07

These are great

Ishihtzuknot · 16/08/2020 13:15

A ‘lady’ chewing up some food then spat it onto a napkin and began feeding it to her toddler
An old lady picking up her dogs poo with her bare hands and putting into a wheelie bin in someone’s garden then walking off, I was a teen at the time and never stop feeling sick at the image

DustbinTimberlake · 16/08/2020 13:21

I’ve just remembered a man who bought a Greggs pasty and shared it with his dog.....so he had a bite, then the dog would have a bit (not broken off, the dog would bite a bit off the pasty) and then the man would have another bite....I wouldn’t share a Greggs pasty with anyone tbh I love them Grin

GeordieLass01 · 16/08/2020 13:23

I feel sick reading these. However, I don’t think changing a nappy on a car seat falls into this category. I’ve had to do that a few times - parked in car parks and also outside someone’s house. I have never left the nappy there though and would have anti-bac my hands afterwards.

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