Used tissues and bodily fluids

[myswtghst]

Ick, ick and double ick. I'm one of those people who keeps my used tissues in my pockets to throw away myself at home, who'll dump empty pop cans/bottles/cups in my backseat before I ask someone to throw them away for me, who stuffs the footies in my pockets at shoe stores if there's no trash can out so I don't have to hand them to anyone. The other day, my cousin offered to throw out my gum for me, and even though she said she didn't mind touching it, I still dug for a receipt in my purse to spit it into.

People are gross. My general motto is if I wouldn't want to touch it, I should make someone else touch it. Seriously. And I'm not a germophobe or anything. Ick.

[BookstoreEscapee]

This is why I keep a trash bag in my car...novel concept, I know. If I need to empty liquid from a cup, I will toss it in the grass at the edge of a parking lot or in a storm drain or whatever (in other words, not where someone is likely to be walking through it), but then it's usually just ice. Then I put the cup in my handy-dandy trash bag. In my car! (I don't usually do drive-thrus, but it would never in a million years occur to me to ask the person at the window to throw out my trash...)

[Strikesfirmly]

Most janitors don't get paid nearly enough..not by far.

That is several years of my life I do not miss at all.


Honestly, I'm not sure most Americans even understand the purpose of trash cans. Its like some kind of religious denial;

"If I just drop it here, someone else will eventually clean it up..."

Cigarette butts multiply no matter how many times a day you lot check. And when the snow melts off, yikes.


We have this semi-regular customer who is on some very powerful medication. 40-50ish man, but very slurred speech..and he drools quite a lot. Occasionally he even drops his money in said drool before handing it to you.

About the worst day though he came in from fishing, and in a very bad drool state, after apparently eating something peanut butterish. Almost completely incoherent, extra drool, with a 5 gal bucket stinking of fish. I don't have that weak a stomach but I had to go into the restroom after he left...and then I had to clean where he had walked or leaned.

Even now, just thinking about it..sheesh.