Nose blowing at the table

[WorldlyWise]

How gross is that! If you really have to honk it, just get up and go to the restroom for goodness sakes!

Sorry, but this has turned into my new pet peeve. Honk and wipe, fold the napkin, honk and wipe, give it a close examination, and repeat. Ewww...

 

[minkydog]

Eww~I'm right with you there. It's so disgusting. We were recently out to lunch with the family when the man in the booth behind us began snorting & honking & blowing like some kind of dinosaur. DS10, who is autistic, can mimic certain sounds "perfectly"--he started up,matching this guy snort for snort The rest of us were about rolling under the table laughing. The guy finally got too embarrassed and left.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

I can understand how it would offend some people, but I don't bother taking it to the ladies' room just to correct a runny nose (which happens quite often when I eat anything hot or spicy). But loudly honking, that's a little crude. I figure that as long as you use a tissue, and make sure you're containing it properly, there's nothing wrong with it. JMO.

 

[phyllis1966]

Oh my God! My co-workers and I were just having this exact conversation at work today! I was always taught to excuse myself from the table to blow my nose, but DH just honks away (he did it just yesterday, prompting me to bring it up at work today!). He has pretty good table manners, but this just drives me crazy - how do you not lose your appetite listening to that?!

 

[Sylvester McBean]

I'm guilty. my wife hates it.

 

[Sandcass]

I actually CAN NOT blow my nose in front of another human being. Even my DH & kids, I always go in the other room. DH laughs at me, cause it's not just at the table, I can't blow my nose in the same room with other people. It's too gross.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Yeah, it can be pretty gross but if you sneeze suddenly what else can you do? And then there's people like me who have a constant runny nose in certain seasons. If I didn't at least wipe my nose that would be grosser and if I only went to the bathroom they'd have to bring my meals into the ladies room! But honking and loud blowing can be pretty awful while you try to eat.

 

[Sandcass]

I can wipe or dab, just not blow! Now I have 2 funerals in 2 weeks, plus a sick nephew, so I've done a bit of crying lately and it's been tough!

 

[momrek06]

How gross is that! If you really have to honk it, just get up and go to the restroom for goodness sakes!

Sorry, but this has turned into my new pet peeve. Honk and wipe, fold the napkin, honk and wipe, give it a close examination, and repeat. Ewww...

OH MAN, sounds just like my DH and I go absolutely W I L D! I have told him for 25 years to go into the bathroom IF he must do that!! He always seems like WHY does he have to do that....he is a REAL engineering N E R D!!! He has so much on his mind, he tends to let hygiene things like that go....but I ALWAYS win and have to continue to R A N T !!! Even my DS' at their ages KNOW that that behavior is inappropriate. Even when they feel the urge to "pass gas" (sorry) BUT GO INTO THE BATHROOM!!! PERIOD!!! What is this country coming to...are we all losing our hygiene habits. I will say though that I have noticed in like the last year or so, when I am at a public restroom more and more ladies young and old are WASHING THEIR HANDS !!! AWESOME!!! I think our country would be healthier if we just took some small steps to good overall hygiene. Sorry I have real paranoia issues = PARANOID!!!

 

[ducklite]

I can understand how it would offend some people, but I don't bother taking it to the ladies' room just to correct a runny nose (which happens quite often when I eat anything hot or spicy). But loudly honking, that's a little crude. I figure that as long as you use a tissue, and make sure you're containing it properly, there's nothing wrong with it. JMO.

I agree! I think there's a big difference between wiping your nose because it's a little runny from spicey foods, and honking out your sinus cavities full force at the table. The latter is best done in the rest room or by stepping outside.

IMHO a discrete "wipe" at the table is perfectly acceptable.

Anne

 

[Uncleromulus]

Beginning to sound like a Sienfeld episode--- it was just a wipe--just a wipe

 

[DebIreland]

Oh yeuch! I hate it too. That and people who make disgusting masticating noises while they eat.

 

[Tazicket]

I actually CAN NOT blow my nose in front of another human being. Even my DH & kids, I always go in the other room. DH laughs at me, cause it's not just at the table, I can't blow my nose in the same room with other people. It's too gross.

ME TOO!!!!! I always thought I was the only one! Even in high school, I would have to ask my teachers for the hall pass if I had to sneeze! (DH is quite honored that I sneeze in front of him now....only took 4 years of dating/marriage to get there )

 

[littleshamrock]

WOW!!!! I though I was the only one who thought that this was incredibly rude!! Everyone kinda makes fun of me because I think that way, but it's just so gross.

 

[DebIreland]

ME TOO!!!!! I always thought I was the only one! Even in high school, I would have to ask my teachers for the hall pass if I had to sneeze! (DH is quite honored that I sneeze in front of him now....only took 4 years of dating/marriage to get there )

That reminds me of my brother's dillema last year. While waiting for their new house to be built he, his wife and their children stayed with her parents for a couple of months. My brother was too embarrassed to use the bathroom for, well, anything other than a quick pee because their bathroom was located near the kitchen/living area. And of course you know the way men turn a b.m. into a major event. It turned into a kinda obsessive compulsive thing with him setting his alarm for 5am to get into the bathroom and do his business before his mother-in-law woke up. I'm amazed he didn't end up with lifelong constipation the way he was carrying on.

 

[SeaSpray]

Beginning to sound like a Sienfeld episode--- it was just a wipe--just a wipe

"No pick! There was no pick!!"

I'll be seeing Jerry Seinfeld this weekend in Boston! Can't wait!

 

[eeyoreforever]

That is one of my biggest pet peeves too. A couple of weeks ago we were eating at a Mexican restaurant that we eat at every week. There was a man a couple of tables over blowing his nose, looking at it (eeew-whats up with that?), then laying the napkin on the table until he needed to blow and look again. The most disgusting part is that this restaurant uses cloth napkins and that is what he was using. That shows absolutely no respect for anyone around you. What about the poor person who had to bus that table and picks up the napkin not knowing what was in it. And to think I might get that napkin the next time we eat there. I think I'll start carrying paper napkins with me.

 

[Hannathy]

I have a lot of allergies so I think a little blowing like just enough to not sniffle costantly is ok but a full force like with a cold blowing is over the top for the table. I always put my used tissue in my purse or directly into the trash I would never leave them for the poor bus people they see enough gross things as it is.

IMO letting your nephew make fun of the man by imitating him was just as rude as the man was, maybe more.

 

[suevee]

I am sorry, but I have a severe post nasal drip and sinus problems in the winter I have no control over. I also have a bad gag reflex. Sometimes with no warning I have to blow immediately or the result will be vomiting. I choose the lesser evil. I can not tell ahead of time when this will accur. I am sorry, but I can not remain in my home because I might gross someone out.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

I apologize to those I may have grossed out and hereby promise to change my ways. In the future, excuse self and head for the men's room.