9.16: I clearly sad that if I have a cold, I leave the table and frankly most of the time I don't go out to begin with. I stay home rather than making my friends sick. Allergies do not make others sick.

What do you do when you eat something spicy and your nose runs? And you are at a restaurant. Are you telling me I should still leave.

Whatever.

If someone blowing their nose seriously causes you to post in all caps about it, you need meds.

Get over it.

Germs should be confined to the bathroom whenever possible. What's next? Taking a dump under the table? With audible grunts to accompany?

I don't understand those so ill-raised to be in-ones-face about bodily functions. While we all do it, I think you a sincere cad and proud to be trash when you pull these stunts in public. I don't bat an eye, simply because I know you want me to.

These are the same people who fail on every level when they barely if at all cover their mouths during a cough.

YOU ARE DISGUSTING AND ADD NOTHING TO THIS CIVILIZATION BECAUSE YOU CHOOSE TO NOT BE CIVILIZED.

Anonymous wrote:

Only in D.C. is it "nuts" to be considerate.

nuts to think that blowing your nose exposes the restaurant to germs.

Anonymous wrote:Talking with food or phlegm in the throat is always a nice follow up to the nose blowing at the table. I would just abruptly and loudly excuse myself from the table if some moron did this.

Passive-aggressively calling attention to someone else's faux pas is also extremely rude.

Anonymous wrote:Hearing others blow their nose does not bother me. I'd rather they blow their nose than have snot running out of it, or talking like they are totally stuffed up. Whenever I see or hear one these situations, especially the latter, I think, "Blow your darn nose already, why don't you!!!!"

+1. DH is a sniffler and it drives me nuts.

Yes it is disgusting, and so is burping out loud or burping in others face. YUCK.

Talking with food or phlegm in the throat is always a nice follow up to the nose blowing at the table. I would just abruptly and loudly excuse myself from the table if some moron did this.

Every early morning my DH goes down into the basement and has a sneezing fit. 10-15 in a row. Afterwards he blows copious snot into a tissue and gets in the shower. On the weekend I usually lose it and tell him to: Stop it, FFS! and he does. Immediately. He gets some kind of thrill from it, but at least has the decency to stop when asked.

Doesn't bother me, but maybe because I do it myself.

Hearing others blow their nose does not bother me. I'd rather they blow their nose than have snot running out of it, or talking like they are totally stuffed up. Whenever I see or hear one these situations, especially the latter, I think, "Blow your darn nose already, why don't you!!!!"

Anonymous wrote:When I get full or eat something spicy, my nose runs. Isn't turning away and doing a discreet dab with a tissue less obnoxious and gross than sniffling? There's no way to control a continuously runny nose by going to the bathroom.

Dabbing your nose is a different story than BLOWING your nose.

I think it is disgusting in general but especially so when sitting at a dining table and there is food in front of the snot blower and everyone else at the table!!!

PP here. Why is that a good thing?