Public Display of Hygiene (PDH)
September 26, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I could hear the familiar sound. The one that makes my skin crawl. It was this guy. Clipping his fingernails on the ef’in NYC subway! His snipped bits flipping through the train car. Boomeranging off every surface. Everyone moved away in an effort to find cover. And still he did not notice. No one enjoys a public display of hygiene! (PDH) Bluck.
People. Please. Wear your pajamas to the grocery store. Line a public toilet seat with tissue before you perch upon it. Put on lipstick at the restaurant table. (Hey, that can be sexy!) But for the love of all things – don’t clip your fingernails on public transportation! At any moment I was ready for him to pop off his shoes and socks and dig into his toe nails as well. Double bluck!
He’s not the only one though. Once on an airplane a woman three rows back from me was clipping her fingernails. She only got about 5 clips in before someone else asked her to refrain. And one other time, when I was a kid, I was watching a movie with my new foster parents. He was eating popcorn on one end of the couch. She was clipping her toe nails on the other end of the couch. I was sitting in the middle. We all saw and heard it happen. One ambitious toe nail clipping flipped up into the air and landed smack dab in his popcorn. I’ll never forget it.
I just had to get this out of my system. Thank you.
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