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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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Minai · 17/08/2020 14:15

Just remembered I saw a man sharing his ice cream with a very slobbery dog and saw someone change a babies nappy in a shoe shop on one of those benches you sit on to try shoes on. 🤮

Swelteringmeltering · 17/08/2020 14:21

View Point, St Paul de Vence, arms length away from my dc, man holds one nostril, and shoots snot out of the other. Then hacked up and similarly, spat it out.
I went into spasms of dry heaving.

I've never seen anything so revolting, selfish.

yomellamoHelly · 17/08/2020 14:24

Saw (late teens) kid walking down the street with his hand in the front of his pants. Hand stayed there the whole time from I first clocked it to when I walked past. Just yuck!

minnieok · 17/08/2020 14:24

I was stuck in traffic on the m25 (for 3 hours to go 4 junctions!) and men were lining the hard shoulder weeing, full view of cars, my DD's thought it was hilarious.

rosiethehen · 17/08/2020 14:43

I was out fishing one day with my late husband and a couple arrived in a car on the other side of the river. They came down the bank next to a small bridge where she proceeded to give him a hand job whilst he leaned against the bridge. It went on for quite some time whilst we continued fishing and they must have seen us because the river wasn't particularly wide.

We laughed and cheered when they did finally finish. They got back into the car and just drove away, like you do.

UnfinishedSymphon · 17/08/2020 14:52

A chap I used to work with had quite bad eczema, he used to scratch his hands and arms constantly and there'd be loads of flakes of skin on his desk. He'd then push them into a pile, lick his finger, dab it into the pile of skin and you can probably guess the rest

RaspberryRuff · 17/08/2020 15:06

Where are the Managers of these people who clip toenails at their desks? That is just truly vile.

These are disgusting. The dipping the finger in the skin one made me boak

Not me but one of my colleagues once saw a client who brought her dog into the office, the client was given a glass of water and let her dog lick out of the glass

Graffitiqueen · 17/08/2020 15:14

A girl squeezing the spots on her boyfriend's back at the bar in tenerife.

Mangofandangoo · 17/08/2020 15:20

A man purposely blow snot from his nostril all over Tesco trolleys all parked up in the trolley bay. Literally just before lockdown 🤢

Yes, I reported that to Tesco but I'll never be the same

ApocalypseNowt · 17/08/2020 15:40

Far too many men weeing in public places.

Once saw a woman do a poo behind Debenhams (it was NYE but still...)

And one which my friend told me but still makes me shudder. Said friend was on the tube in London and saw a well dressed woman half asleep in the same carriage with her head leaning to one side. Woman did a half cough type thing and a huge glob of phlegm landed on her shoulder. She did a quick look round then licked it back up and swallowed it. Envy

SpookyNoise · 17/08/2020 16:01

@UnfinishedSymphon I have a colleague with eczema, and when it’s bad on his hands, he scratches it by rubbing it on the fabric of the shared chairs, leaving flakes of skin everywhere.

DillonPanthersTexas · 17/08/2020 16:05

I was walking to my office from the tube station years ago and was stopped by someone who pointed out that I had something on the back of my leg. That something was about an 8 inch string of thick green snot. I nearly gagged cleaning that up. Who the fuck blows their nose on someone.

mcdog · 17/08/2020 16:57

I was a mental health nurse many moons ago...I've seen some sights I can tell you!!

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/08/2020 17:05

A man flossing his teeth on a packed commuter train.
A woman picking hard skin off her feet and eating it on the same train.
A child having a shit on the pavement outside a cafe in Paris, right next to people who were eating their lunch. The mother pulled the child’s pants up and they went on their way leaving the turd on the pavement.

Carishina · 17/08/2020 21:01

A man on the bus shaving his head with a Bic razor.

A man in a department store cafe sitting at an uncleared table while his wife queued for food. He picked up a half eaten chicken leg from one of the plates and tucked in. Thankfully he finished before his wife came back.

Work colleague keeping scotch eggs in her drawer and eating them over several days.

Oldraver · 17/08/2020 21:20

Lad on the tills in Morrison's last week, pick his nose roll it the flicked away

BogRollBOGOF · 17/08/2020 21:25

People gobbing in the aisles of buses and trains in China and seeing it tricking around the floor as the vehicle goes up/ downhill or around bends for the next hour or two. Envy
Spitting in public was far more previliant than facemasks!

Firebird83 · 18/08/2020 00:59

An old man having a wank in a car outside the local hospital

Lots of people picking their nose and eating it

nancy75 · 18/08/2020 01:07

A woman tried to pay me in a shop with a £20 she got out of her knickers. She did NOT remove it in a lady like fashion!

Spanielmadness · 18/08/2020 01:19

I used to work in a small nursery. One of the morning helpers prided herself on being very ‘down to earth’ and no nonsense.
She would insist on cleaning the adult toilet regularly, but refused such ‘nonsense’ as rubber gloves. She would bail the water out and then scrub the bowl with her bare hands. She cleaned her toilets at home the same way.
To make it worse, she also insisted on making the children’s toast each morning. Always after cleaning the toilet. Also with no gloves or apron. The nursery owner would try to ask her not to, but she was a very over-bearing, loud woman who was convinced she was being extremely helpful and wouldn’t take no for an answer.
She would remove distressed children from parent’s arms and usher the adult out the door when the children would prefer to go to another worker and then insist they had toast.
The manager wished she would leave, but was too afraid to tell her she wasn’t wanted.
She had to have an operation eventually and was off for a long time, much time everyone’s relief.

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