I understand that you may be sick. I am sick too. I can empathize. Being sick does suck! However, when studying in a space full of other people, it is generally considered rude to blow your nose as honkingly loud as possible, then suck your remaining snot up into the back of your throat and spit it, loudly, into the same tissue that you just blew snot into. It is gross to do this repeatedly, with the same tissue. I noticed that sometimes instead of spitting loudly, you let the chunky yellow throat-snot dribble out of your mouth and onto the tissue. Though quieter, this is not a better solution.
It is also rude to let forth big, hacking coughs without even attempting to cover your mouth. We all have to blow our noses sometimes. We all have to spit sometimes. We all cough sometimes. There are polite ways to do these things, and there are completely disgusting, offensive ways. You, my friend, have apparently chosen the latter, and it has rendered me completely unable to eat my delicious-looking cinnamon raisin bagel. This is why, despite having never met you, I deeply despise you.
Love,
Jill
It’ll be a while before I stop chuckling at this line.
Or how about not bother blowing your nose at all, and choose instead to suck your snot into your nose and throat honkingly, and swallow it audibly. Then clear your throat. Ahh, the nutritional value of Phlegm!
Last year I sat between two coworkers who used to do that. Unable to bear the BRAAAAAAWWK….ahhh…ahem ahem…..I brought headphones to drown it out. :P
*Gagging* A sign of a writer using good descriptions is when a reader physcially gags and wants to puke when you describe a “snot” expisode.
Thankfully you don’t have sound with your posts. ;)
I’m sure there is a .wav file somewhere to that effect. :-)
My pet peeve is the habit of coughing onto your fist. Hello? Open up that hand, cover your mouth completely, then cough.
I guess if I ever get sick, or even just a little congested, or for that matter eat an orange or drink some milk, I should just roll over and die since that’s the only way you gaggle will ever be happy.
Marian – there’s a lady at work who does that deep inhale so you hear the phlegm and then swallow – its disgusting. Its really odd b/c she’s a very prissy woman who tries to be as refined as possible.
She’s also generally clueless though – once asked me how I managed to get curvier hips b/c she’d been working out w/her trainer nonstop and was still stick thin. Was I doing some new diet or exercise? I laughed and said “uh no, just gained weight – that’s how I’ve gotten curvier.” Later she apologized but it was funny she thought there was some trick that gave me bigger hips all of a sudden.
Yes, true.