How Discusting is this?

[annegal]

Had to work Saturday at the Flower shop


A young man -teen- came in to order a corsage. I'm at the computer typing in his ticket-he is standing about 16 inches in front facing me. His jaw seems swollen & he's holding a cup.

As I am talking with him he starts spitting in the cup & I realize he is chewing tobacco!!!

It got to be rather nauseating & I stopped, looked at him and asked "Do you always do that in stores?"
I think he was taken aback by my comment & as he was leaving told me he wouldn't bring it back in when he picked up the corsage (and he didn't)

 

[Tracey1974]

Gross

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I have an iron stomach, but things like this make me gag! My BIL is a big offender of the chew spit. The other thing is people (usually guys) hawking a loogie. OMG...gag...puke! Don't do it!

 

[Charade]

Ewwww!!! NASTY NASTY habit!

 

[disneyfreakk]

Atleast he was using a spit cup! I had a guy that DH worked with spit in my kitchen sink!

 

[TurboKitty]

Downright disgusting!

 

[Luv'sTink]

I hate that! I knew a guy that swallowed it...GAG!

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

It's pretty icky. If you chew tobacco, you should treat it like a cigarette. If you wouldn't walk in a building with a lit cigarette in your hand, then don't take your nasty spit cup in there, either. Keep it outside or at home.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

I hate that! I knew a guy that swallowed it...GAG!

EWWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[miss missy]

There is a guy at work that does that all day. He is a trainer too and when he trains in the classroom, he does it too! He stops talking to go spit and then continues. I have no idea how he gets away with it People ask him ?'s all day so its not like he is sitting alone all day. Whatever. It is gross, but I like the guy and get that he is addicted, what can ya do.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

When I hear of chewing tobacco, all I can think of is this story that's stuck in my mind for many years:

http://www.whyquit.com/whyquit/SeanMarsee.html

 

[aprilgail2]

People do that in the train all the time, there will be coffee cups filled with that crap that tips over and slimes all over the floor or they will spit it into poland spring bottles and its just looks totally gross!

 

[minkydog]

When I was in college we had several football players who chewed tobacco. I'd go to an 8 o'clock class and they'd be lined up with their spit cups--or I should say, their spit bottles. Every one of them had an empty coke bottle that they carried from class to class, filling it up with vile brown slime It was enough to make the rest of us wanna hurl, but the teachers put up with it because they were on the blessed football team

 

[ElizK]

When I was in 8th grade I shared a table with this guy in science class (lab partner). He chewed tobacco (yes, he was 13!!!) and would spit in the FRONT COVER OF HIS SCIENCE BOOK!!!! I threatened to tell on him if he didn't quit, so he starts SPITTING ON THE FLOOR UNDER OUR TABLE!!! (where's the smilie that blows chunks when you need one????) UGH.

 

[disneynutt1225]

I hate that! I knew a guy that swallowed it...GAG!

Now THAT is even nastier than the habit itself!

 

[jbmom]

That is so nasty! The last time I took my sons to a hockey game there was a college age guy behind us that kept spitting it on the floor. We changed seats really quick!

 

[MzDiz]

When I hear of chewing tobacco, all I can think of is this story that's stuck in my mind for many years:

http://www.whyquit.com/whyquit/SeanMarsee.html

It was a story from that site - http://whyquit.com/whyquit/BryanLeeCurtis.html - that really drove me to quit smoking. I saw myself in his place and vowed that I would not be smoking at 30. I quit cold turkey 4 months before my 30th birthday.

Ok, that was sort of OT, but I think more people should read the stories on that website.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I guess this doesn't gross me out as much as most people. The area where my grandmother is from it was more acceptable for women to chew tobacco than it was for them to smoke. So I grew up with most of my mom's family chewing tobacco and it doesn't gross me out in the least. Do I think it's a bad habit? Heck yes. But it doesn't make me physically ill or anything to watch somebody do it or to see a nasty, slimy spit cup/bottle/can laying about.

TOV

 

[Mono~rail]

Where I used to work some of my male co-workers dipped skoal, and they always used spit cups. We would write our names on our drink cups so we didn't get them mixed up. One of my female co-workers was very outspoken on what she thought of the males and their spit cups so to aggravate her they would write her name on their spit cups!

 

[OK!]

When I hear of chewing tobacco, all I can think of is this story that's stuck in my mind for many years:

http://www.whyquit.com/whyquit/SeanMarsee.html

My God, what an awful story. I mean, I remember seeing the photos in HS health class of the lips/mouths/tongues of people who'd dipped, but something like this really does kind of hit home.

And for those of you who are baseball fans, does it seem lately like more players are dipping again? I know it used to be highly prevalent, but then the trend seemed to die off a little bit. Watching this past postseason as closely as I did, it seemed like nearly everyone in both dugouts was dipping! I was stunned. However, I'm also stunned that people still smoke, but I guess that's me. I used to work with a woman who smoked at least 2 packs a day and spent the bulk of her day coughing and hacking at her desk (which was all the way across a VERY large open-plan office from my desk, but she might as well have been sitting next to me, it was so loud). Seriously, it sounded for all the world like she was on the verge of bringing up her entire respiratory system, and when customers would call for her, they invariably thought she was a man. They'd ask to speak to Jackie and I'd say, "Yes, one moment please, and I'll get her for you." They'd reply, "No, this was a man named Jackie." It got to the point that I just gave up trying to explain to them that there was no man in the office named Jackie, that the person they wanted actually was a woman.