Um, gross...ever done this? Dilemna of the day

Writing Jedi · Oct 15, 2006

So I was munching some chips while browsing the internet when I dropped a little piece on the floor. Keeping my eyes on the fascinating discussion on the screen, I sort of reached down to where I thought the chip landed, picked it up, and put it in my mouth. Seconds later, the thought crossed my mind..."Hey, I am eating chips. Chips are crispy and salty. Whatever I am eating is...chewy and bland....WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST PICK UP AND PUT IN MY MOUTH???"

So, my dilemna was, take it out and face the possibly horror or just swallow it and never know. I swallowed it. That way I can tell myself it was a chocolate chip or something.

What would you have done? And can I fit this into a book somehow? LOL.

maestrowork · Oct 15, 2006

What you don't know might kill you.

Nice knowing you.

CACTUSWENDY · Oct 15, 2006

No way...would never happen...not on your life. Are you nuts?

What kind of pets do you have? Never mind, I don't want to know.

Gross...yuk...(just thinking about it is making me gaggggggg)

Writing Jedi · Oct 15, 2006

LOL. Thanks guys. Think I'll go induce vomiting now. :flag:

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

I go for fallen food like a sailors go after a man overboard. I don't keep my eye on the screen, I watch the food fall, I track where it lands, and I pick it up very gently (so as not to press it against the carpet and attract more dirt).

Mostly, I don't eat it because there are too many animals, and me, for it to be sanitary.

Are you going to hold it in your mouth until this thread has run long enough to provide you an answer?

eldragon · Oct 15, 2006

I'd spit it out, and just to be safe - probably vomit the rest of my stomach contents in quick procession.

eldragon · Oct 15, 2006

Writing Jedi said:
LOL. Thanks guys. Think I'll go induce vomiting now.

Let us know what you find!

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

eldragon said:
Let us know what you find!

Please do. I haven't seen my iPod all day.

eldragon · Oct 15, 2006

If I had done that, my guess would be :

1. Hairball from cat.
2. Cereal or popcorn dropped out of my kids mouth or bowl.
3. Toilet paper that someone carried on their shoe.

maestrowork · Oct 15, 2006

Let me quickly examine the floor in my room... it could be:

- lint from unknown garment
- used tissue paper
- days old candy
- rubber
- sock
- toenail clippings
- rabbit poop
- hamster food
- hamster
- unknown food substances, unknown time period
- underwear
- band aid
- dead spider
- dead cricket
- hair ball

that's about it...

DamaNegra · Oct 15, 2006

You don't happen to have rodent pets, do you?

I never mind eating food from the ground, even if it's fallen in the middle of the street. As long as there's nothing obviously wrong with it, I'll eat it. My stomach's immune system is great

That's the good thing of buying food from street vendors who don't really know the definition of hygiene (you should've seen the oil they used to make my tacos yesterday, with hardened yellow and brown things floating over it amidst some kind of foam, but ooooooo the tacos were heavenly!)

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

*I* have a large number of rodent pets.

Following Ray's lead, I examined the general vicinity of my chair and I find:

- A stack of handwritten manuscript pages
- Another stack of pages when the first one got too tall
- The spilled remains of a little box of grape nerds
- A piece of plastic
- A bag of candy
- Two peanut shells
- One pair of socks
- A USB 5-pin cable
- A tissue, unused
- A perscription bag
- My left foot.

Right. I would probably avoid eating anything off my floor.

Scarlett_156 · Oct 15, 2006

DamaNegra said:
I never mind eating food from the ground, even if it's fallen in the middle of the street. As long as there's nothing obviously wrong with it, I'll eat it. My stomach's immune system is great That's the good thing of buying food from street vendors who don't really know the definition of hygiene (you should've seen the oil they used to make my tacos yesterday, with hardened yellow and brown things floating over it amidst some kind of foam, but ooooooo the tacos were heavenly!)

Word that. Stressing about germs is what makes you sick, you know.

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

Agreed. I've lived in too many weird places full of weird food to be worried about anything off my relatively clean floor killing me.

Plus, I'm Cajun. That makes me naturally impervious, I think...

aadams73 · Oct 15, 2006

Probably it was just a rat's ear or something random piece of employee's body parts that fell in at the packaging facility.

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

aadams73 said:
Probably it was just a rat's ear or something random piece of employee's body parts that fell in at the packaging facility.

You're such an optimist.

aadams73 · Oct 15, 2006

*sigh* fine, fine, it was probably just one of those brown chips, you know, that look all icky in the packet.

(or a long-dead roach)

Angelinity · Oct 15, 2006

PeeDee said:
Plus, I'm Cajun.

That makes your *droppings* nice and spicy :roll:

aadams73 · Oct 15, 2006

Question: Did it feel like it had legs?

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

They're not "droppings," they're "creole"

PeeDee · Oct 15, 2006

aadams73 said:
Question: Did it feel like it had legs?

Another good question: has it made any attempt to get out?

aadams73 · Oct 15, 2006

*Either* end.

Angelinity · Oct 15, 2006

Writing Jedi said:
So, my dilemna was, take it out and face the possibly horror or just swallow it and never know. I swallowed it.

How many seconds passed between the chewing and the swallowing?

TsukiRyoko · Oct 15, 2006

Oh God, I know EXACTLY what you ate. The same thing happened to me the other night, but instead of swallowing it, I decided to pull it out. I will not tell you what it is, for your sake, but I will say go find a mega-laxative IMMEDIATELY.

:tongue

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TrainofThought · Oct 15, 2006

This is gross. YUCK! I'm safe with mistaken potato chip identity. My place is void of any of the things PeeDee and Ray have on their floors.

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