Spitting on the Sidewalk

[BearClaws]

:grr:
I was in town the other day with my kid.
We were in front of a store waiting for my wife to finish shopping.
I glance down at the sidewalk and realize that my kid has stepped in someones lunger that they hocked up.
I was soooo grossed out.
It REALLY pisses me off when people spit on the ground in public places.
I am continually shocked by the rudeness of people.
(Just my rant of the day)

[salin]

1. While it is sometimes done just for the sake of being gross,

a question - what about folks who really get caught with all that phlem in their mouth -and now tissue or kleenex? Granted I think that is more rare than folks who have just picked up a really gross and disgusting habit with disregard for all who share public spaces.

[MADem]

4. Step to the side of the road, and head for the bushes

If in a city, head for an alley or the gutter or a storm drain. The sidewalk is just not right...it is rude, inconsiderate, and thoughtless.

[MADem]

2. You aren't in Singapore, are you?

If you spit or chew gum there, you can end up in jail getting your ass whacked with a bamboo pole...I kid you not!

I find spitting incredibly rude, too and nowadays, with all the great diseases prancing about as a result of our compromised immune systems, it is an unhealthy practice as well!

[HEyHEY]

3. Your kid stepped in my hork?

He ruined it... you owe me a new one

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. It is a sign of lack of class and proper breeding

but it can be unlearned.

It is indeed disgusting.

In my neighborhood in Harlem, almost everyone spit - children, men, women, even older women. Spit on the sidewalk, spit in the subway, spit everywhere. And it wasn't spitting because of phlegm, either. It was just plain spitting. And continuous - they might spit three, four, ficve or more times waiting for a train. Spit spit spit spit spit all over the place.

[BearClaws]

6. Don't get me wrong...

I am a country boy through and through, I spent most of my free time in the outdoors.
Fishing, camping , hunting etc... places where you can perform all sorts of bodily functions without criticism, but when in a public setting, there should be a code of common decency and respect toward other people.
Some people just don't get it.

[MidwestMomma]

7. I hate the sidewalk spitters too

We have a sidewalk spitter at the office building I work at. It grosses me out to no end to see a big luggie on the sidewalk on the way into work. There are bushes and grass on either side of the sidewalk. Is it asking too much for them to walk over a few steps and spit in the bushes?

Apparently so.

How self-absorbed do you have to be to think the world is your personal spitton?

Yuckity, yuck yuck...

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Yeah, SPIT AT THE BUSHES!

Especially George W.:-)

[chaska]

9. Just keep it in your head. What's the effin' problem? Why does anyone....

HAVE to spit? It's about time we start enforcing spitting laws again ... with a swift kick in the ass.

[BearClaws]

10. Sounds Good To Me!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. This seems to have increased in the past few years

I recall that when I first went to Japan in the 1970s, I was grossed out by the way people spat on the sidewalks and on train station platforms, because I had never seen anything like that in the States, not even in New York City.

But starting about three years ago in Portland, spitting on the sidewalk became almost a favorite pastime among teenagers. It was mostly teenage guys, but a few girls as well, and there was a definite hostile air to it.

Ironically, these were some of the same people who took to sitting on the sidewalk downtown.

Yuck.