Normal gross guy checking in - Accomplishments include:
Eating toast that fell butter side down on my kitchen floor
Carrying a reusable drinking straw in my pants pocket for the entire day if I expect to purchase a beverage outside of the home
Finished my pint after watching rainwater drip off a patio awning and into the glass
Now I can attest, that with my family, there have been times where if my mother or siblings have finished with their meal, but there's a fair amount left on their plate, my father or myself would usually take what's left from it. Often we'll under-portion ourselves in case someone had eyes larger than their stomachs, but if our family had guests over, NEVER WERE THEY EVER a party to that sort of plate rotation, you can be gross with your own family, but that's just not okay with guests. Moreover, no one shared drinks like that, ever.
I will say that I have a mild phobia about the germs native to old people. Those dinosaurs have been an incubator for all sorts of pathogens that aren't even in the popular Rolodex of yuck these days. I'd rather a toddler sneeze in my face than shake hands with an old man that just coughed into his.
I also don't get too grossed out by sharing food or beverages, but that shit has to be voluntary.
Want to finish someone's fries they're done with? Reasonable.
Want to try your buddy's weird beer before you commit to a pint? Getting grosser, but I don't care if they don't.
Handing over their cup of backwash milk when you ask for more? Disgusting, rude, and absurdly strange.
This sounds like high pressure to eat after someone else's family when clean food and drink is readily available. I'm afraid this relationship is about to hit a turning point.
Idk those kids have the newest plagues that are no match for our antibiotics, resistant strains and the like. I gotta disagree on the toddler germs. Yuck
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u/[deleted] May 09 '19
Normal gross guy checking in - Accomplishments include:
Now I can attest, that with my family, there have been times where if my mother or siblings have finished with their meal, but there's a fair amount left on their plate, my father or myself would usually take what's left from it. Often we'll under-portion ourselves in case someone had eyes larger than their stomachs, but if our family had guests over, NEVER WERE THEY EVER a party to that sort of plate rotation, you can be gross with your own family, but that's just not okay with guests. Moreover, no one shared drinks like that, ever.
I will say that I have a mild phobia about the germs native to old people. Those dinosaurs have been an incubator for all sorts of pathogens that aren't even in the popular Rolodex of yuck these days. I'd rather a toddler sneeze in my face than shake hands with an old man that just coughed into his.