Why Do People Spit?

[ajk912]

Please, I'm so curious. What would you offer as a more acceptable solution? If I'm walking down the street and hacking, what in the world am I supposed to do?

Carry tissues in your pocket and spit into one of those and throw the tissue in the trash possibly?

 

[hogwartsdropout]

I agree, I think it is absolutely disgusting. It makes me feel ill. If they NEED to do it, at least do it into a tissue? I would hate to stand in it! Gross!

 

[sunlver]

My son does it and I think its nasty...My husband has done it a very few times since marriage. I dont get it..I mean, unless you have some illness that you have to spit..I never spit,and never could think why I would spit..Maybe if I tasted some so horrible in my mouth, I would spit into a napkin..But, just walking along and spitting for no reason..NO WAY..

 

[sbell111]

I agree, I think it is absolutely disgusting. It makes me feel ill. If they NEED to do it, at least do it into a tissue? I would hate to stand in it! Gross!

Wear. Shoes.

If the very thought of a stranger spitting makes you physically ill, I have to wonder how you survive in the real world.

I declare...

 

[Poohbear123]

LOL! I am SHOCKED that there are people actually defending spitting in public! Really?

It is absolutely disgusting. I laughed when I saw the title of this thread, because, OP, I have wondered the same thing!

I was going to post this same Question on Sat!! I think its disgusting rude and just plain GROSS!! I don't care if you have allergies, or chewing tobbaco, just don't spit near me or I will call you a SLOB!

 

[claudia]

USE A FREAKIN' TISSUE!!! It is an absolutely disgusting thing to do. If you know that you will need to spit due to any of the preiviously listed conditions then you should be prepared with a pack of tissues. It's a dirty, disgusting, crude, nasty thing to do.

 

[wildernesslodgelover]

wear shoes? So I can track it into my house? Lemme guess...you don't think people should have to pick up after their dogs, do you?

Sorry, no body fluids shold be expelled from the body in public. Go find a restroom...you know, like when you have to urinate or defecate???

 

[dcentity2000]

I take medications that cause excess saliva in the mouth and I don't spit! If I can get by without spitting, I'm sure others can too.



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[sbell111]

I'm gonna make sure and hack a huge luggie on the sidewalk as I leave today in honor of all you people!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Well to be fair some people (like me) have sublingual glands that produce way too much saliva. Have to get it out sometime!

You can bet that those people who feel the absolute need to spit are not spitting just 'saliva'.

Like I said, something is wrong, then. It's still gross, no matter what the reason.

Please, I'm so curious. What would you offer as a more acceptable solution? If I'm walking down the street and hacking, what in the world am I supposed to do?

Like your momma taught you, use a tissue!

wear shoes? So I can track it into my house? Lemme guess...you don't think people should have to pick up after their dogs, do you?

Sorry, no body fluids shold be expelled from the body in public. Go find a restroom...you know, like when you have to urinate or defecate???

Absolutely..leave only your footprints! I don't want to see anything coming out of someone's body in public. Period!

 

[rockundergirl]

My stepfather makes this noise before he spits , i think he is somehow pulling snot from his nose then spitting it out.. its so gross I can't eat for hours after I hear it.. my mom has been close to throwing things at him in anger cuz he will do it IN THE HOUSE then spit in the sink. OH its so gross but thought i would share
OP i have no idea why people spit, i think its a bad habit like nose picking , you start doing it and soon it feels like to need to to be comfortable.

 

[sbell111]

wear shoes? So I can track it into my house?

If no one in the world ever spit, would you consider the bottom of your shoes to be sanitary?

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I completely understand that there are a million different reason why someone would need to spit.....that still doesn't make it acceptable to let it fly where ever you choose. Like PP stated....use a tissue!! Go to the restroom!!

I have a teeny bladder....I pee ALOT!!....is it okay for me to get rid of my extra fluids on the sidewalk???? I am very inconvenienced by having to go to the restroom, ya know.

 

[MineMail]

I went ice skating the other day and thought I was going to hurl after watching the hockey players and coaches spit on the ice at the first session, then the toddlers came on and licked the snow off their mittens. The zamboni doesn't sterilize the ice, ewwwww!

I believe that spitting is cited as one of the reasons that many flu bugs spread quickly in asian countries. They spit on the ground and also don't use tissues - they just BLOW onto the ground. Airborn germs everywhere.

 

[Feralpeg]

When I was a kid, I was sitting in the backseat of our car. It was summer and the windows were down. I think you can see where this is heading. So, we are driving along and some idiot in a truck passing by spits out the his window. Guess where it landed. On my face! Yuck!

I think there is nothing more disgusting than people spitting on the sidewalk. Why do people do it? Because they think it is macho. I don't buy the "because I need to excuse". In my entire life, I can only think of one time that I have spit outside my house and that was because I inhaled a bug.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's disgusting.

 

[wildernesslodgelover]

If no one in the world ever spit, would you consider the bottom of your shoes to be sanitary?

I don't need additional nasty stuff on my shoes. Thanks. Especially human body fluids.

 

[wildernesslodgelover]

I'm gonna make sure and hack a huge luggie on the sidewalk as I leave today in honor of all you people!

That's exactly the comment I would expect from someone who spits! Class act!

 

[hellokitty86]

Gross - a total dealbreaker. I would never date a guy that spits regularly (obviously there are exceptions if someone is sick and needs to spit).

I see guys do it at Disney and think wow - such a lack of class.

I totally agree.

 

[claudia]

Peeing in the street is against the law, spitting is not so suck it up!

actually in many cities it is...

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

The Dis can really be entertaining some times...