yuck spitting in front of me is gross

Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Well i can understand your situation very well and even i have the same reaction as yours. I never like people spitting in the public places, it is such a bad feeling whenever i see them do this. i think it is not a civilized behavior and i hope people who spit in the public places realize their mistakes. What say?

Hello my dear. Those sounds do annoy me as well and what makes me gross out is actually people who yank them up their nose and don't take it out, it's like pulling the mucus stronger in the neck and that grosses me out. No, I don't encourage spitting, but do agree with taking it out on a napkin or something, not keeping it inside. I don't spit in front of other people, I can understand that nobody wants to see this and nobody enjoys seeing this, so I try to use a napkin whenever available. In desperate cases, I will use a leaf and through it in a trash can because as I stated above, it would make me puke to swallow that.

Any way one looks at this practice, it is very impolite and discourteous. I agree that the entire act is disgraceful.., but not everyone cares. Certainly, while it is a public ealth issue to be taken seriously, not everone care. All that one has to do is to avoid being caught in that situation; which is very challenging to do. Best of luck, and try not to become ill as a result of strange behaviors that you described.

I also don't do that. And I hate to see someone doing that in front of me. Don't they realize that they are spreading viruses this way? Whenever I felt like I need to really spit something out and I am out in public and far from a restroom, I discreetly, behind my hanky spit it on a trash bin

Well in most eastern countries spitting like that is not polite but I don't know the custom in your country. Peoples tends to hate such behavior because it's the same as not respecting you. Here peoples might goes into bare-hand fight if someone does that :). I do believe that some countries also have some kind of spitting law in public areas.