Cornflakes related...

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AIBU to want visitors to serve themselves cornflakes by pouring them into the bowl and not by plunging their (possibly unwashed) hands into the box and filling their bowls handful-by-handful? I haven't said anything, because I'm far too polite, but it's put me off eating cereal and I will want to throw away the rest of the box when these people finally leave.
So AIBU?

What? Who does that?

Sorry, obviously I should have put a 'trivial' warning in the title.

YANBU... It's up there with grotty hands in a bowl of peanuts, double dipping etc

That is bizarre behaviour - is your visitor a caveman?

No, visitors don't have good standards of personal hygiene IMO (18 year old language students).

I hadn't considered the broken flakes element, which makes the crime even worse

YANBU
That's very strange behaviour

YANBU... These sound like house guests we have regularly (DH's friend) and they make me want to scream with their unhygienic ways!!!

Enjoy your toast

That's almost as bad as sticking a unwashed hand into the Kellogs box back when we could afford branded cereal to grab the toy out of it.

We call the pulverised cereal shrapnel.

That's almost as bad as sticking a unwashed hand into the Kellogs box back when we could afford branded cereal to grab the toy out of it.

We call the pulverised cereal shrapnel.

No! That's just wrong.
Yanbu for throwing the rest away once they've gone. Ewwww!

It is bizarre, Blustocking. I'm trying not to mention the fact that they also fill the bowl with milk first and then shove the cornflakes on top. When they are done with the cornflakes they leave half a bowl of milk for me to chuck down the sink - possibly about a litre between them.

Provide only shredded wheat, toast or weetabix. Cannot be dipped into

Or the fun size selection boxes!

Language student season is almost over, thank goodness! They are a bit of a mixed blessing all in all, but needs must...

That is why I could never have students or lodgers! Vile.
Fil is a greedy git and although he does pour his cereal out he has to have two types in one bowl!
Only at my well stocked house though. At their house you get one box of harvest morn museli and some white toast and Marge

Selection boxes
Surely only millionaires buy these?

Oooh, I like that, but fear they might just remove the lid and plunge in as usual.

This is inexplicable behaviour!

TravelinColour, exactly what I was about to suggest! I think I have a spare one that's not in use atm too.

Duck tape the sides down so they can't take the lid off!

One of my friends who took language students used to have felt tipped messages written in all sorts of places, top of toilet cistern, next to taps and (probably) on cereal boxes. It looked quite bonkers, but I'm starting to like the idea myself now...

Duct tape and big 'do not remove lid' message scrawled on top might work!

I admire your restraint - I would have given them a short tutorial in the correct way to serve yourself a bowl of cereal, followed by a lecture on the evils of wasting food! Sounds like their own families haven't done much of a job of bringing them up.

I've already delivered the 'fruit lecture' bluestocking, ie. "if you don't want fruit in your lunchboxes just bloody well tell me! It is wasteful and hygienic to leave a binful of festering, untouched fruit in your bedrooms."

Aargh!

I think give them a demo; if they're here to learn English it counts as a lesson in British culture. Almost.