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Over the course of thousands of years, our hygiene habits have improved to suppress outbreaks of diseases and protect our health. However, a handful of them somehow survived and have become quite the norm, despite being pretty gross.
People in the AskReddit community were discussing such examples in hopes that others would give them up. Scroll down to find them, and be sure to let us know if you agree or disagree with them!
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with redditor, who started this interesting discussion in the first place.
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The redditor who started this thread was inspired to spark this discussion online when their partner noticed something gross they did by accident.
"I sneezed and wiped some snot on my sleeve, my wife found it disgusting and I thought it was normal," they share.
Fortunately, the Reddit user tells us that this was the only instance that their habits were found to be gross by others.
When it comes to their own tolerance for gross things, they say that not much phases them. "I’m pretty hard to gross out."
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#3
Spitting. I feel physically ill when I witness someone hawking and spitting in public or see spit sitting on the pavement.
No one is safe from other people’s questionable habits, especially not in the office. Online printing company Instantprint surveyed 1,000 UK employees to uncover the hidden truth about coworkers grossest habits.
It was found that more than 5% of Brits admitted to cleaning their computers or work areas yearly or never at all. Meanwhile, 1 in 10 employees never wash their mug, water bottle, or glassware when enjoying a beverage of their choice. Either they have an office cleaner who does it for them, or they feel content being surrounded by some serious crumbs, dust, stains, and bacteria.
Only 16% of respondents revealed that they wash their hands regularly at the office, and a whopping 19% confessed to rinsing them solely after using the bathroom. It’s worth being cautious about who you shake hands with!
When it comes to other gross workplace habits, almost a quarter admitted to taking off their shoes at work. And over 30% of Brits confessed to eating something from the back of the fridge that was way past its use-by date.
#7
Employers paying new hires more than tenured employees. Having drastically different pay rates for people with similar credentials doing the same job.
It seems that not everyone learned the pandemic lesson, as 39% of employees said that they would still come to work if they had a cold. However, it’s not all that bad, with almost 60% of respondents having tissues on hand, 41% always having sanitizer, and 30% bringing deodorant or perfume to work.
#11
Maybe not “normal” but I am repulsed by the smell created by clothing not properly drying. The smell is on clothing that sat in the washer machine too long. Or dish towels and bathroom towels that dried without being spread out.
I smell it on people from down the isle in stores. And don’t get me started on drying my hands in someone’s bathroom and finding out the smell is lingering on my hands now.
#14
Spitting, coughing without covering mouth. I have multiple sclerosis. Get sick really easy.
#15
When someone else 'washes' my dishes for me and I drink from a 'clean' glass and it smells of rotting food and I look at my sponge and it's covered in food because someone thought that smearing food around my dishes with a sponge somehow made them clean you're all fired I never want to see you again.
#16
On colder days when my dad walks the dog he’ll sometimes hold the dog poop bag in his hands to warm his hands.
#18
Not washing hands before a meal. You have been in filth and you are going to touch your food with those hands? Yuk.
#20
Washing dishes in a tub of soapy water and not rinsing off the soap suds. Or not scrubbing the outsides of pots and pans as well. Makes me want to vomit. I'd rather not taste stale soap and bacteria in my cup of tea or food thanks. I can always tell as well.
Holy s**t thanks for the 1000 upvotes. I've never had a post get this many upvotes.
#22
Talking while eating. You get to see the inside of their mouth, and its disgusting
Just eat and swallow the food and then talk 🙄.
#24
Childbirth.
We're all here because of it, and it's currently my day job to catch a baby or two per day, but goddamn is it like watching a woman's genitals go through Vietnam each time.
#26
Wearing those big a*s engagement rings and never properly cleaning them. Especially in a hospital, nobody should be wearing anything below the elbow for good hand hygiene. I can’t imagine how many germs live between all those diamonds that now are spreading to my patients. Just take it all off, leave them at home!
#27
I see so many videos of people letting their cats walk all over their kitchen counters and I want to vomit. Do these people think their cats are washing their paws and butts after they use the litter box?
#28
Blowing out birthday cake candles. Here let me blow my spit all over this cake, then cut it up and expect everyone to eat it.
Instead we should do a sheet cake for all and a cupcake with candle for the blower.
#29
Perhaps not gross, but I am repulsed by holding chalk and writing on a chalkboard. The touch, the feel, the sound, everything.
#31
Expecting their older kids care for the younger siblings without consideration of the older kids desires and wants.
#33
When people don't wear underwear under their gym clothes. I don't care who you are, you better be wiping the seats of the equipment off because you know you got your liquids on it.
#35
Posting uncensored pictures,videos or text messages of other people online to make fun of them.
#36
Biting your nails as an adult, I get that it can be self-soothing behavior, but it still grosses me out. Was in a meeting yesterday, in person, 75 people. The lady next to me was playing with her nose and biting her nails non-stop and I was repulsed.
#38
I wouldn’t say everyone finds this normal bc more and more ppl are starting to side eye it but using words like “baby” or “daddy” or “mommy” in a sexual context.
#43
Using your phone in the bathroom seems very common and I don't get it at all. I have never once felt the need to use my phone there, and it never even comes into a bathroom with me (unless I use a public washroom and have my purse, but then the phone stays in my purse).
#45
Long nails. Acrylic nails are fine imo but naturally long nails that are yellow, crusty and not filed are not okay.
#46
Touching the toilet seat to bring it up or down. I need to wash my hands immediately or I convulse in disgust lol.
#48
Family/friends talking about their poop. When they poop, or that they can’t poop, or their stomach aches and they need to poop. I don’t want to know about it.
What do you think ?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
My ex would use the same drinking glass for DAYS AT A TIME. And he has oily skin texture, so the glass would get literally BLEARY with skin oils on the first day. It would go from clear-glass to literally opaque with skin-oil. And don't even get me started on how NASTY the glass's rim looked from his lips touching it over and over. I cannot FATHOM how he could use that glass day after day without horking the second he went to drink from it. I'd sometimes grab the glass surreptitiously and I'd wash it. I sometimes gagged just from TOUCHING the glass while washing it. And - for years his Brita pitcher used to look NASTY filthy (skin oils, food smudges, grease, dust, dirt, etc.) - I would call it his "cholera pitcher" and he'd get all pissed off. When we lived together I would wash the pitcher regularly. He also thought I was overreacting for wanting to wash the pets' bowls every day so they could eat from CLEAN BOWLS. I am now free, after 23 years of skin-oils XD
LillieMean 1 year ago
Touch screens, especially at self-service checkouts. You know how many times I've witnessed someone cough or sneeze at the screen. In the cold season, I wear touch screen gloves when using it and at other times I use hand sanitizer. Disgusting surfaces for bacteria frolicked on.
Icomefromthelanddownunder 1 year ago
I hate seeing someone pick up their kids dummy (pacifier) off the floor & put it in their mouth to clean it 🤢 pin it to their clothes ffs
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
My ex would use the same drinking glass for DAYS AT A TIME. And he has oily skin texture, so the glass would get literally BLEARY with skin oils on the first day. It would go from clear-glass to literally opaque with skin-oil. And don't even get me started on how NASTY the glass's rim looked from his lips touching it over and over. I cannot FATHOM how he could use that glass day after day without horking the second he went to drink from it. I'd sometimes grab the glass surreptitiously and I'd wash it. I sometimes gagged just from TOUCHING the glass while washing it. And - for years his Brita pitcher used to look NASTY filthy (skin oils, food smudges, grease, dust, dirt, etc.) - I would call it his "cholera pitcher" and he'd get all pissed off. When we lived together I would wash the pitcher regularly. He also thought I was overreacting for wanting to wash the pets' bowls every day so they could eat from CLEAN BOWLS. I am now free, after 23 years of skin-oils XD
LillieMean 1 year ago
Touch screens, especially at self-service checkouts. You know how many times I've witnessed someone cough or sneeze at the screen. In the cold season, I wear touch screen gloves when using it and at other times I use hand sanitizer. Disgusting surfaces for bacteria frolicked on.
Icomefromthelanddownunder 1 year ago
I hate seeing someone pick up their kids dummy (pacifier) off the floor & put it in their mouth to clean it 🤢 pin it to their clothes ffs
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