Well THAT Was Unexpected!
More often than not, if I do not have plans for lunch you can find me eating a sandwich in my car at the park. Occasionally I get out of the car to soak up the sun, but for the most part I sit confined in my own little world, listening to NPR, people watching and trying to figuring out the mysteries of the world.
It was on one such day, as I was eating my club with lots of Ranch because it has less calories than mayo sandwich, that I saw the most interesting and disturbing things I’ve yet to witness.
The park has a wonderful walking/running trail and it is not uncommon for me to see the same people pass by twice. I noticed a top heavy woman in a baby pink fleece walking. She had long gray hair that reached all the way down to her butt. I was trying to figure out if she was Native American or something else as she approached the stretch of sidewalk in front of my car. Then she stopped, and without realizing I was sitting in my car not more than 20 feet away enjoying a saucy sandwich, put her finger to one side of her nose and blew a great big stringy snot rocket out of the other. A SNOT ROCKET! As in blowing your nose into the air and not a tissue! From a cute old lady in a pink sweatshirt! A SNOT ROCKET!!!
Seriously?
I swear I can still see it all happening in slow motion. I don’t know if she continued to clean out the other nostril or not. I was too busy trying not to THROW UP my lunch! I couldn’t even look at my now half eaten sandwich. I ended up wrapping it up and throwing it away so I could get out of the park before she came back around the trail and managed to do something even more disgusting like, I don’t know, eat chewing gum off of the bottom of her shoe!
Now I’ve seen construction workers blow snot rockets before, hell my uncle does it while we are boating as a family, but to have a cute old lady in a crowded public park do it right in front of me while I was eating… Oh man, that was just too much!
Dare I ask… what disgusting behaviors have you been witness to?
Blogfully yours,
Summer
I am seriously Laughin My ASS off! I love reading your stories!
Dare I say I’m one to blow snot rockets, too (BTW, love your terminology!). I’m a runner. I hate carrying stuff. Why carry tissues when you don’t need them? I like to think it’s better for the environment, too. As a runner, I can also tell you that I’m not alone – I see fellow runners doing it all the time. Gross, kinda. But, it’s a reality of taking workouts outdoors!