Gross Factor I… Public Grooming
New Yorkers, listen up. Nail care does not belong on the subway, or any other public place. It is not cool to whip out your nail clippers on the subway and clip away. Would you wipe your ass in public? Do you think people sitting next to you want your nail clippings flying into their laps, or into their eyes because those suckers have velocity and direction? As I write this, a woman is filing down her nails on the subway on top of her black leather purse, a pile of nail dust streaking her bag like it’s a fashion statement. I am brought back to memories of a few years ago in a class, when a guest speaker started clipping his nails as he waited to go on. I gritted my teeth and proceeded to write a one page reprimand on his evaluation form on how rude and disrespectful the act was. Plus this is New York! Do you know the kind of shit people can put on you from gathering your nail clippings?
I disagree with the self-appointed editorial board on whether to post this: this is a part of one’s urban odyssey.
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lolololol… I am in full agreement. Just like when little kids put their feet on the wall and get screamed at by teachers and parents. What would possess them to do that? It makes no sense. Random, I know, but it made me think of that immediately and it is far less gross. What would go through a persons head to make them think clipping nails in public is ok? The only place you clip your nails is in the bathroom over a garbage can or on to something that can easily be brushed into a garbage can. Why aren’t they even trying to hide it?
Let’s blame the a$$hole who thought up the great idea for the tacky souvenir key chain with “Daytona Beach” written in hot pink on a pair of nail clippers sold in trashy beach shoppes (which is every shop in Daytona) that gives these jerk off’s an invitation to clip in public.
P.S. If you do want to clip in Public go to a place like Daytona Beach, I am sure it is ok and welcomed there. Oh and don’t forget to latch your gun rack on to the back of your vehicle… and be sure and remember your confederate flag! (sorry, still bitter about a bizarre experience as I drove through the “city” once)
P.P.S. Back to the point, why would a guest speaker think anyone would want to see HIS nail clippings? Obviously not that intelligent.
ha ha ha… when I think of clippers on key chains, I think of Florida too, with a shiny palm tree on it!