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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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allthegoodusernameshavegone · 16/08/2020 13:31

Watching a nappy and it’s contents being thrown out of the back of a car. Still makes Seeth today, that child is being bought up by people who could such a thing.

Dreamersandwishers · 16/08/2020 13:33

American burger place on holiday. They had full bottles of ketchup on each table. Table next to ours were dipping their chips into the ketchup bottle. 🤢

HappyBee18 · 16/08/2020 13:34

Told a man his Alsatian had poo’d on the sand area at a Waterpark we were at, someone gave him a dog bag, the man picked the poo up with his bare hand and dropped it into the bag

ZigAZigAhh · 16/08/2020 13:37

On the (packed) Tube into work:

  • woman using nail clippers on her fingernails and brushing the clippings off her lap
  • man in a suit repeatedly picking his nose and eating what came out
  • man feeling for pimples on his face/neck and squeezing them
Palavah · 16/08/2020 13:40

A ‘lady’ chewing up some food then spat it onto a napkin and began feeding it to her toddler

This is a common practice in some cultures for babies who are weaning

Littlebeachhut · 16/08/2020 13:43

A couple walking down the road the guy grabbed the woman’s hand and held it on his crotch while they walked 🤮

daisychain1620 · 16/08/2020 13:53

I worked with little kids so I've witnessed lots of very gross things including poo drawings on walls (shudder) lol
I was once trying to find a parking space before a running event, drove down a quiet street and had to turn at the end to find a grown man squatting, taking a dump before the race! There were portaloos round the corner 🙁

Ghostlyglow · 16/08/2020 13:53

A man in a London hipster/gastropub double dipping his chips into the mustard pot 🤢

HaudMaDug · 16/08/2020 13:56

@deathswiftlyfollows

I saw a chap get turned over inside a portaloo at a festival Was horrific
All bets are off for disgusting things at a festival. Wink

On a date with a guy I really liked I couldn't help staring into his eyes.
After a wee while I realised his pupils were dilated and I twigged he was on something. His speech was getting a bit random but then he started digging around in his nostrils with his index finger and eating the snot. Other people in the bar were watching (in disgust) but he was oblivious.Envy not envy
I went to the loo and left the bar through a side door.

badacorn · 16/08/2020 13:59

Ugh some people pick up dog shit with their bare hands? I did not need to know that...

I remember being at a buffet restaurant (Pizza Hut maybe?) and seeing a kid go for a scoop of coleslaw with his bare hand. Although that pales in comparison to some of the posts so far. You win.

Confusedpixo · 16/08/2020 13:59

A naked man having a very public wank in the middle of Bayswater Road. Me and a fried were on our way to Notting Hill carnival and I'd spent all week reassuring her that it was safe and not full of pervs and crooks. We were so shocked we actually stopped dead on the pavement and stared, just in time to see him finish and lick his hand 🤢

motorcyclenumptiness · 16/08/2020 14:00

Woman on a bus who farted so long and loud she felt obliged to apologise to the person she was talking to on the phone. She then lifted a cheek to make sure she was all farted out.
Sheldon was right about bus pants.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/08/2020 14:05

Once saw a Scottish (female) football fan squat down and curl out a massive turd on the platform at Manchester Piccadilly. (It was a football match, maybe 10-ish years ago - obviously big grudge with whoever the Scottish side was because that was by no means unusual at this particular event!)

Eeeuuwww! Aside from the grossness of actually doing it and leaving it there, surely your unwiped bum would just crinkle and itch for the rest of the day, wouldn't it?

Yorkshiremummyof1 · 16/08/2020 14:09

Two highly obese people (please note I used to weigh 25 stone so I’m not fatist) woman sat on bus shelter bench, man stood in front of her and I swear they were dry humping in broad daylight. Except, with their tummies because of their size?! I was 14 at the time and have never been able to wipe that image from my brain it was utterly bizarre.

draughtycatflap · 16/08/2020 14:09

On a really hot day in Barcelona one time I was resting against a wall in a square and the man next to me took out a small bottle of milk, unscrewed the top, and drank from it. As it was absolutely sweltering I thought it an odd choice and then the overwhelming smell of sour milk wafted across as he glugged it down. I almost threw up.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 16/08/2020 14:18

I once saw a women eat a raw sausage. 🤮.
Good God surely no one is that bloody hungry.

GoshHashana · 16/08/2020 14:21

In a Starbucks in Shanghai i saw a woman take out a sandwich bag full of cat litter, and encourage her toddler son to piss into it. She then tied it closed and left it on the table. 😖

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 16/08/2020 14:22

Confusedpixo wins. Well, maybe not wins...
The nose flobbing thing. I was covering boys PE a few years ago. Football, very windy. Boys all thinking they were premier league players. One nose flobs. The wind picks it up and splatters it all over his shirt. Schadenfreude.

SpiderVictim · 16/08/2020 14:38

At a doctors’ induction presentation in a lecture theatre, on our first day in a new job. Doctor sitting in the row in front of me picks something (a scab? A louse?!) from her hair/scalp, inspects it and THEN EATS IT 🤢

Timekeeper2 · 16/08/2020 14:40

What is 'brown sauce'?

Bluntness100 · 16/08/2020 14:42

Driving behind a man on a windy back road for about three miles. He had some form of skin condition and was picking the skin off his head and flicking it out the sun roof. For the whole three miles. Turned my stomach a bit.

Also the amount of people who pick their nose whilst driving. Like they think you some how can’t see them.

Pavlova31 · 16/08/2020 14:55

Saw a woman fill a paper tissue with a long nose blow then put said tissue in to the paper recycling bin Envy - Not envy

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 16/08/2020 14:57

I used to go a pub for lunch every day (those were the days!) and sometimes a very, greasy, lank-haired man in grubby overalls would come in and order egg and chips. On one occasion he poured tomato Ketchup over his meal, licked the top of the bottle and put the lid back on. Shock
I still shudder when I think of it.

BlueJava · 16/08/2020 15:02

I was at Heathrow (pre-Covid1) on a business trip waiting for a flight. There was a couple and he had his feet up on a wheelie case in front of her whilst she scraped all the hard skin off his feet! In the middle of the terminal! Leaving it on the floor!. Urgh!

PerfidiousAlbion · 16/08/2020 15:06

Yes, the runners and the cyclists snotting and hawking/spitting as they go past my house. Horrible. It’s everywhere and has replaced dog shit as the plague of the pavements.

People picking their nose when driving. WE CAN SEE YOU!

Arse scratching combined with finger sniffing. 🤢

Meat and two veg shuffling in public - nirmally by men wearing joggers.

I also have a colleague who cuts his toenails at his desk and another who has black dirt under her gingernails each morning after mucking out.

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