I witnessed something disgusting today and I had to sit and experience it for 40 minutes. I feel sorry for the woman but I am also just a bit sickened.
I had to go to to a talk today, and a colleague of the woman holding the talk sat in front of me.
A few minutes in, she started scratching her head quite a bit. Oh dear, I thought, not very nice, but maybe she has dry skin or something.
Now, her hair was quite greasy, so it was parting to reveal her head quite a lot. The scratching got quite furious, and eventually the hair parted to reveal a weeping red sore which she scratched, picked and squeezed.
I TRIED so hard not to look, but it was directly in my line of vision as I was watching the presentation and I could hear the scratching.
The woman then changed the angle of her head slightly, carried on scratching and picking one of the sores, and then, because she'd changed the angle of her head, I could see her looking at the stuff she had collected under her nails and on her fingers and licking them and eating it from under her nails.
I do feel sorry for her, but honestly I just had to get this out of me, it was horrible to watch. There were so many seats with empty rows behind them, there was a door right next to her, it would have been so easy to pop out and go to the toilet.
I had to stay in the talk, though, and I just couldn't avoid seeing it.
And breathe.