to tell on this man for spitting?

[Prettykitty111]

Ok tell me if I'm in the wrong here but they looked at me like I have two heads.
I've just walked into work. I'm at quite a prestigious university today and as I entered site I walked past a builder stood at the main gate who as I walked past him has just done that suck up throat thing and then spat the contents on the pavement quite close to my feet. I was so disgusted I couldn't turn round and say anything to him (I have a mental block where if someone spits or throws up near me I feel sick myself) but I got angrier and angrier as I carried on walking so I went and found the site office, spoke to the foreman and told him what had happened. Foreman was apologetic but as I left the office every man there just stared at me like I was a mentaler for complaining.
WWYD? Would you have let it go? Am I just being sensitive because in the past I've been tested to TB and I know one of the main causes of spread is people spitting the street? Was it me? I'm starting to feel guilty now and I don't know why.

foul habit makes me want to throw up when I see or hear someone doing it do you hear me vile man who walks along the road near my house daily and does this

...like I was a mentaler for complaining.

Yes, people who spit are as disgusting as people who use phrases such as the above.

My husband works on buildings sites, he has never and would never spit regardless of what he was breathing in. He always carries hankies. This bloke was a disgusting pig plain and simple.

I probably wouldn't have reported but would have said something to him. It's disgusting, can't stand people doing this.

So many people seem to think it's fine to spit on the street around where I live - it's fucking disgusting. I'm glad you reported.

He shouldn't spit like that.
Equally, you are a mentaler for 'telling on him'.

You have clearly never been on a Qatar Airways flight!

YANBU. Like others, however, I would have had a word with him, face to face. I cannot fucking stand that snorting-phlegm-through-throat noise, makes me gag.

Pray tell, what is a 'mentaler'?

Stop using mentaler it's rude, derogatory, belittling. Just stop it.
Language means everything.

what happens on Qatar Airlines? !

I really hate spitting it makes me gag. But my DH does something equally disgusting and no amount of pleading with him will stop him - he does something he calls 'snot rockets' he holds one nostril and blows snot out of the other onto the ground - bleeurk

It's habit from years of climbiing/outdoor sports and being out living in a ditch with the army. But it's seriously disgusting.

He doesn't do it near peoples feet tho, thank god.

Hi all sorry for using that word. I was emotional and not thinking and you absolutely right that was not the right word to use. I agree language is a clue to someone's opinions and I would normally never use that. But comparing the use of one misplaced thoughtless word on a Thread is not the same as me spitting potentially contagious phlegm onto a public pathway that as someone said above wheelchair users and children may pick up.

Prettykitty
My dd is a wheelchair user, so yes, it's foul.
Thank you for apologising.