First impressions aren’t everything, but they can massively impact how you see strangers. Take, for instance, nasty behavior in public. It is hard not to judge someone who acts in such a shocking way that you still have nightmares about it years later.
#1
I used to work in a cinema from the ages 17 to about 21.
One night I was working the concession stand (food and drinks) when the manager came over to me late on and said “you gotta see this.” We proceeded to the Gents toilets, middle cubicle and I opened the door.
Cautiously, I revealed a scene out of a German Scat video. S**t. Human s**t. It was piled in the toilet like a herd of constipated horses. It was smeared on the cubicle wall. It was on and inside the toilet roll holder. It was on the floor. It was in and on the adult diaper/nappy in the corner.
The manager then asks me to clean it up as he’d sent all the ushers home for the evening. I noped out of that m**********r quickly. Not doing that s**t for £3.65 an hour.
One night I was working the concession stand (food and drinks) when the manager came over to me late on and said “you gotta see this.” We proceeded to the Gents toilets, middle cubicle and I opened the door.
Cautiously, I revealed a scene out of a German Scat video. S**t. Human s**t. It was piled in the toilet like a herd of constipated horses. It was smeared on the cubicle wall. It was on and inside the toilet roll holder. It was on the floor. It was in and on the adult diaper/nappy in the corner.
The manager then asks me to clean it up as he’d sent all the ushers home for the evening. I noped out of that m**********r quickly. Not doing that s**t for £3.65 an hour.
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41points
#2
A mother berating her 10 year old daughter who was afraid of the orthodontist. “You are ugly, if you don’t do this you are going to keep being ugly. Who likes ugly people? No one. If no one likes you this is why.”
I just had to leave before I beat the s**t out her.
I just had to leave before I beat the s**t out her.
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33points
#3
When I was in the Navy I was living in a bad neighborhood complex south of San Diego, 1989.
We had a couple of wife beaters that lived in my courtyard building and every now and then they get drunk up beat their woman and the cops would come and take them away. One time it was really bad and the guy broke her arm and some ribs and then ran off. Woman goes to the hospital with her, her one-ish-year-old baby.
The guy comes back the next morning and apparently we had a vigilante squad and they went and broke both of his legs. He goes to the hospital. Two days later we see them and he is in a wheelchair and she has her arm and a cast holding the baby with the other. They were all bruised up saying how much they loved each and how to figure out getting him up to his second floor apt. Of course the little baby was screaming.
I literally went threw up. That image is still in my head.
We had a couple of wife beaters that lived in my courtyard building and every now and then they get drunk up beat their woman and the cops would come and take them away. One time it was really bad and the guy broke her arm and some ribs and then ran off. Woman goes to the hospital with her, her one-ish-year-old baby.
The guy comes back the next morning and apparently we had a vigilante squad and they went and broke both of his legs. He goes to the hospital. Two days later we see them and he is in a wheelchair and she has her arm and a cast holding the baby with the other. They were all bruised up saying how much they loved each and how to figure out getting him up to his second floor apt. Of course the little baby was screaming.
I literally went threw up. That image is still in my head.
30points
At its core, disgust is a reaction that is meant to protect you. It is your body's and mind’s way of reducing the risk of microbial contamination.
When you spot someone behaving in a physically gross and nasty way in public, it’s incredibly likely that your instinct will be to avoid them. It is this reaction that helps protect your body from pathogens and other dangerous particles. That being said, other people have a much bigger tolerance for disgusting things.
However, we’re not born with this reaction to bodily fluids, decay, etc.
Dr. Paul Rozin, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of disgust, explained in an interview with the American Psychological Association that disgust is not innate. It is not present at birth, unlike, say, an aversion to bitter tastes. Disgust does not appear until children are 3 to 5 years of age.
#4
I was once in the bathroom stall in a dive bar, and I witnessed this guy in the stall next to me drop a grape onto the floor, pick it back up, and eat it. He was sitting down on the toilet eating grapes. In a public restroom. In a dive bar.
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21points
#5
I lived in munich for some time and really enjoyed the Oktoberfest, but you see some s**t on the streets. For this Post:
I've seen a guy walking in the streets, casually s******g his lederhosn with a enormous amount. He walks between two parking Cars and just opens his lederhosn, used his hands to get most of the s**t out of his trousers and continues his walk, getting cheerd on by his buddies. I left the Situation then, but to this day i never forget.
I've seen a guy walking in the streets, casually s******g his lederhosn with a enormous amount. He walks between two parking Cars and just opens his lederhosn, used his hands to get most of the s**t out of his trousers and continues his walk, getting cheerd on by his buddies. I left the Situation then, but to this day i never forget.
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21points
#6
A woman chaging her baby's diaper inside of a restaurant. Not even doing it in the restaurant's bathroom. Doing it where people are eating food.
I was 2 tables away and I could smell that baby's s**t. Do that s**t in the bathroom or something.
Pun not intended.
I was 2 tables away and I could smell that baby's s**t. Do that s**t in the bathroom or something.
Pun not intended.
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21points
According to Rozin, there is an “enormous range” of sensitivity to disgust.
“Some people will have no trouble eating rotten things and any kind of meat, raw meat, things like that. And they’re not upset about body waste. They don’t like them, but they don’t get upset about it. Other people, for example, would not blow their nose in a brand new piece of toilet paper, which is pretty sensitive,” he told the APA.
“So you have this enormous range of sensitivity disgust, but we don’t know why this is true. We can see there’s some genetic components, some early environment, but a lot of the variation we say can’t be explained.”
#7
I saw a drunk older lady at a work Christmas function run to the bathroom to throw up not make it in time, she puked in her hand a bit and then promptly ate it so as to not be caught making a mess on the floor.
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18points
#8
I just felt bad for her, but there was an old lady at on the tube in the underground. She was very confused and kept waking back and forth. She smelled terrible. I mean TERRIBLE as if she had never seen a shower in her entire life. As if she was already d**d and had started to rot away. As if she had been bathing in a mountain of rotten eggs.
And then I understood what the smell came from. She had pooped herself and wet herself. It was all loose so the p*o had started flowing down her leg causing her pink leggings to turn a muddy pink. She didn’t understand what was happening and everyone who saw her wondered what the f**k we should do to help her out. It didn’t seem very clever of her family to let her wander off on her own. She should have been on a home of some kind.
Again, I felt bad for her, but that smell is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever felt.
And then I understood what the smell came from. She had pooped herself and wet herself. It was all loose so the p*o had started flowing down her leg causing her pink leggings to turn a muddy pink. She didn’t understand what was happening and everyone who saw her wondered what the f**k we should do to help her out. It didn’t seem very clever of her family to let her wander off on her own. She should have been on a home of some kind.
Again, I felt bad for her, but that smell is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever felt.
17points
#9
It’s not the most disgusting, but it’s oddly visceral. I watched an old lady take her straw out of her water glass and suck up all the yolks from her sunny side up eggs, then put the straw back. Her water was cloudy yellow.
17points
Which of these stories shocked and repulsed you the most, and why? How would you have reacted if you saw someone behave this way?
What are the very worst, weirdest, nastiest things you’ve seen people do in public, and what did you do about the situation? Did you confront them or did you ignore what was happening and go on your way?
#10
I was at a Chinese buffet and the kid at the next table kept throwing up. The family just sat there and I think the kid threw up in a glass. I asked to move, but I didn't eat anything else that night.
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17points
#11
We were having a huge party in highschool at my friend's house. We were all pretty drunk.
Well my friend wandered off with this girl. When they came back an hour later, he was covered in blood and sweat. Apparently he was performing c*********s in the dark on the trampoline behind the house.
Also, unbeknownst to either of them, her mensies had started and was a pretty heavy flow. It was probably 90° and a typical humid Louisiana evening.
So here he is covered in sweat and menstrual blood head to toe and was somehow completely oblivious until we told him. Poor girl was mortified. I still see her on Facebook. We are in our 30s now, but I will never look at her the same. Man, highschool was fun sometimes.
Well my friend wandered off with this girl. When they came back an hour later, he was covered in blood and sweat. Apparently he was performing c*********s in the dark on the trampoline behind the house.
Also, unbeknownst to either of them, her mensies had started and was a pretty heavy flow. It was probably 90° and a typical humid Louisiana evening.
So here he is covered in sweat and menstrual blood head to toe and was somehow completely oblivious until we told him. Poor girl was mortified. I still see her on Facebook. We are in our 30s now, but I will never look at her the same. Man, highschool was fun sometimes.
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16points
#12
Went to another city for a conference and saw a d**g a****t back up to a ground level office with full length windows, drop his pants, and take a diarrhea explosion s**t all over the glass. It was bad enough from 20 feet away, I would imagine it looked worse from inside the building.
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16points
#13
Location: Downtown SF sidewalk
Time of Day: Before 8:00 AM
Description of Incident: While I was walking down the street a man in his mid 30s was walking in my general direction and decided to take off all of his clothes.
While totally n**e, he then proceeds to turn around, kneel down to the sidewalk, arch his back with his a*s in the air doggystyle, and with his a*s now facing me, took both his hands and spread open his b**t cheeks and started s******g.
I was perplexed while in a simultaneous state of revulsion to say the least.
Needless to say I got right the f**k out of there as soon as I saw what was happening. SF is a wild place.
Time of Day: Before 8:00 AM
Description of Incident: While I was walking down the street a man in his mid 30s was walking in my general direction and decided to take off all of his clothes.
While totally n**e, he then proceeds to turn around, kneel down to the sidewalk, arch his back with his a*s in the air doggystyle, and with his a*s now facing me, took both his hands and spread open his b**t cheeks and started s******g.
I was perplexed while in a simultaneous state of revulsion to say the least.
Needless to say I got right the f**k out of there as soon as I saw what was happening. SF is a wild place.
16points
#14
Seeing two old women, who were clearly battling a virus of some kind sampling all the dishes at a buffet with the same spoon.
Watch a woman press her finger with a long nail into a muffin and then leaving it. I saw the muffin spring back so no one would have noticed. I did notify the vendor.
Seeing a man clip his nails in a restaurant.
walked into a 5 person restroom at a prominent restaurant that allowed cigars. This was a while ago. Someone had quite literally plastered every single surface in the place with vomit. I cannot imagine the force she must have had with her vomit. Objectively, it was astonishing. Personally, I'll never be the same.
Watch a woman press her finger with a long nail into a muffin and then leaving it. I saw the muffin spring back so no one would have noticed. I did notify the vendor.
Seeing a man clip his nails in a restaurant.
walked into a 5 person restroom at a prominent restaurant that allowed cigars. This was a while ago. Someone had quite literally plastered every single surface in the place with vomit. I cannot imagine the force she must have had with her vomit. Objectively, it was astonishing. Personally, I'll never be the same.
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13points
#15
Guy walked out of a porta potty at a boat launch, with both his hands covered in his own feces. He simply looked at me and said "no tp" and proceeded to walk down toward the lake.
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13points
#16
Saw a girl fall at the climbing gym, she landed with her arm posted and hyperextended her elbow. When she stood up, her arm was flopping like a noodle.
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13points
#17
Local teens making g*n shot sounds downtown beach city on a busy tourist night. Everyone ran. But there was a grandma on a bench with her grand daughter and ice cream. The girl was terrified and the grandma had this look like she knew she could not protect her grandchild. I have little doubt that was traumatic for them.
As for the laughing teens, sorry your parents have you living in a tourist beach city. How horrible it must be for you, you poor thing 🙄
As for the laughing teens, sorry your parents have you living in a tourist beach city. How horrible it must be for you, you poor thing 🙄
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13points
#18
Saw a kid playing with the urinal water at Newark airport last year. Still gag when I think about it.
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12points
#19
I was living in Queens, and just made it into the last car on the N line before the doors closed at Ditmars Blvd, en route to work (Cortland St, so yeah, a long while back.) I saw a homeless guy asleep on a seat (no big) and noticed the car was remarkably empty.
And then the smell hit.
The guy had s**t in his pants, and there was s**t piled on the floor, smeared on the floor, and it was the most vile smell I've ever experienced.
If gorgonzola had a baby with MRSA rot and giardia dog p**p, that would be this smell.
The connector door was locked, so I was stuck in the car for about 5 minutes as the train kept pausing on its way to Astoria Blvd (next stop) and I'm breathing through my sleeve and gagging. The moment the door opened, I shoved thought the people and sprinted to the next car.
Every stop thereafter, we'd see people get in the other car, and then try to shove themselves into our car at the next stop, which was NYC full by the third stop. I swear I could still catch whiffs on people in the car who escaped from that one car.
To make it worse, we had a catering demo lunch that day, when I was still queasy, but was expected to try the caterer's foods to help decide if we'd use them. The appetizer: Crostini with broiled gorgonzola on proscuitto.
I haven't eaten gorgonzola since.
And then the smell hit.
The guy had s**t in his pants, and there was s**t piled on the floor, smeared on the floor, and it was the most vile smell I've ever experienced.
If gorgonzola had a baby with MRSA rot and giardia dog p**p, that would be this smell.
The connector door was locked, so I was stuck in the car for about 5 minutes as the train kept pausing on its way to Astoria Blvd (next stop) and I'm breathing through my sleeve and gagging. The moment the door opened, I shoved thought the people and sprinted to the next car.
Every stop thereafter, we'd see people get in the other car, and then try to shove themselves into our car at the next stop, which was NYC full by the third stop. I swear I could still catch whiffs on people in the car who escaped from that one car.
To make it worse, we had a catering demo lunch that day, when I was still queasy, but was expected to try the caterer's foods to help decide if we'd use them. The appetizer: Crostini with broiled gorgonzola on proscuitto.
I haven't eaten gorgonzola since.
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12points
#20
I saw a girl in a club semi-squat down in the middle of a dancefloor and just p**s a f*****g river out across the floor. Seemed like only other girls slipped in it, my group all watched from the sides and stayed completely dry but it seemed like everyone around her was oblivious until they or their girl went down and slid away.
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12points