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Okay, I get it. I get that when you have kids, things that would normally seem gross become less so. When you spend your days elbow deep in poop and snot, you get desensitized to it.
So it's not unimaginably gross that the mother that came up to my register with her kid's pacifier in her mouth. I mean, yeah, it's kind of gross, and weird, and I usually associate adult pacifier usage with Ecstacy, as E users tend to grind their teeth. But I can get how she doesn't find it gross. She's been in contact with way worse than that kid's spit with the past hour.
What bothered me the most was that she spent the whole transaction talking out the side of the pacifier. And her kid was right there in the stroller, just derpin' around like babies do. I'm like, lady, wanna share that thing with the kid?
Also, I hate it when people try to talk while holding things in their mouth. I'm like, you're not a dog. Use your hands. Yes, I often use my mouth as an extra hand when it's my own stuff, but not when I'm in front of other people, especially strangers. That's just yucky. So when it's a pacifier, something that I know has someone else's drool encrusted on it, it's double yucky.
What are your thoughts on this? Gross? Not gross? Super gross? Understandable as a frazzled mother or weird even for sleep-deprived parents? I need some sort of frame of reference and collectively, this forum has seen it all.
So it's not unimaginably gross that the mother that came up to my register with her kid's pacifier in her mouth. I mean, yeah, it's kind of gross, and weird, and I usually associate adult pacifier usage with Ecstacy, as E users tend to grind their teeth. But I can get how she doesn't find it gross. She's been in contact with way worse than that kid's spit with the past hour.
What bothered me the most was that she spent the whole transaction talking out the side of the pacifier. And her kid was right there in the stroller, just derpin' around like babies do. I'm like, lady, wanna share that thing with the kid?
Also, I hate it when people try to talk while holding things in their mouth. I'm like, you're not a dog. Use your hands. Yes, I often use my mouth as an extra hand when it's my own stuff, but not when I'm in front of other people, especially strangers. That's just yucky. So when it's a pacifier, something that I know has someone else's drool encrusted on it, it's double yucky.
What are your thoughts on this? Gross? Not gross? Super gross? Understandable as a frazzled mother or weird even for sleep-deprived parents? I need some sort of frame of reference and collectively, this forum has seen it all.
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