People holding money in their mouths

[Notyouthful]

Was in a shop this afternoon and the shop assistant refused to take a lady’s £10 note. Why? She held the note in her mouth.

My friends who work in retail say it’s a thing done mostly by elderly. Why do they do it? It’s a disgusting habit. Even during the mask compulsory wearing days, a friend caught a customer lowering mask so could hold money in her mouth. The customer denied she lowered the mask.

How would these customers react if staff decided to hold money in their mouths before giving them to customers? They would be horrified. So why do customers think it’s ok to hand over money held in their mouths?

Roman slaves used to get sent to market to buy groceries with the coins in their mouths, so the practice is pretty much ingrained by now. You can get a wee hand sanitiser that clips to your belt loop if you are worried about random germs.

I once had a lady who gave me a note soiled in blood. Not even kidding. And a shit ton of women who take the money out of their bras.

Haha, no they don't permanently store the cash in their mouths like a hamster as they go about their day, wtf. They clamp it between their lips briefly while using their hands for something else (still gross).

All money should be assumed to be filthy unless it has been properly decontaminated by at minimum boiling it for half an hour. I agree it's weird to put money in your mouth but the risk to the receiver isn't much greater. It will have all sorts of germs and bacteria on it regardless of how it is handled immediately before being given to you. It will have traces of faeces, semen and all imagineably kinds of bodily fluid. If it's a bank note it will probably have been used for snorting cocaine.