To think nose blowing should be done in private

[loserface]

Just as the title says really. DP often gives his nose a good hoot at the dinner table and other public places and it makes me sick!
Nose blowing should be done in private if possible, no one wants to hear snot flying out your nose at a million miles an hour and then see you wiping it up from your nostrils .

Am I right?!

HollywoodAgentForTheLivingDead Didn't meant to do it...it just came from nowhere...no warning,no time to do anything

I digustingly wiped my nose on my jumper sleeve when I was at school once, and was quite alarmed by how long the run of green that appeared was

I wasn't quite sure how to deal with it

We used to call that Candlewick Green,Hollywood

You revolting lot crazy

OP, so as a teacher, you want me to leave your little dears unsupervised while I go somewhere else (not quite sure where - there may be business studies pupils outside my classroom using the photocopier/printer) everytime I need to blow my nose? Or would you prefer me to stay at home every time I have a sniffle so that your little dears have to have a cover supervisor who doesn't speak any French/German/Spanish?

Re the sniffing, DS1 can't blow his nose (all connected with glue ear, I believe)! Well, he can, but virtually nothing comes out unless he has a stinking cold. He also has hayfever. So he sniffs a lot - it drives me mad but I have to remind myself that it isn't his fault.

How lovely to find a trivial complaint amongst tonight's angstfest :)

If you've got an urgent need to blow your nose in company, you avert your head and do it as inoffensively as you can manage. Same as coughing.

Best not to blow into the restaurant's napkin, though.

Or your sleeve.

Tinuviel, someone should invent nasal tampons for people like your son [hgrin]

Garlic, that made me snigger a touch - when I was training as a massage therapist, we were told that if we had a cold/runny nose/hayfever, we should roll up a tissue and shove it up our nostrils - never blow your nose during a massage! Well I'm sorry but that's just totally impractical - I tend to sneeze massively when I have a cold so all that would happen is some poor client would end up with a snot-soaked tissue roll shooting out at high velocity, doubtless landing on them somewhere, knowing my luck!

So I used to blow my nose and rinse my hands each time (sink in the room) - far better than risking the nose tampon ejection!