For some reason, people subject me to a good overshare quite a bit. I think this is due to the fact that I generally have a very low-key reaction.
If I find a hair in my food, chances are I'll pick it out and keep on eating.
The 5-second rule may as well be the 5-minute rule.
As a former, not to mention disgruntled, au pair, I've wiped butts and washed poop out of bathtubs more times than I care to recount.
None of that grosses me out quite like...
...boogers.
First of all, let's not get boogers confused with snot. There is a difference.
Snot is the wet, runny stuff that gunks up your sinuses. And it's really fun to say.
Boogers are chunky and shall we say... individualized?
However you may describe boogers, they never fail to gross me out. The consistency, the color, the shape and sometimes the size is just more than my gag reflex can take.
Some of you might say, "Just don't look at it!"
I'm a looker. What can I say?
I have to know what it looks like. I mean, what happens if it starts turning blue but I never know because I'm not looking at it?
What then??
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to blow my nose, look at it, dry heave and repeat.
28 comments:
I always look at my boogers. Duh. Doesn't everyone?
Now.
You make think it's funny when your nose is really runny....but....it'SNOT!!!
I'm sorry that really grosses you out. I promise to never make you look at my boogers.
That's funny because I'm the exact opposite... snot freaks me out big time, but I'm OK with boogers.
PS, the picture made me lol.
So glad I found your blog!
That's funny because I'm the exact opposite... snot freaks me out big time, but I'm OK with boogers.
PS, the picture made me lol.
So glad I found your blog!
NO WAY! You and The Surfer are twinsies. Nothing phases the guy like a booger. And Haley monopolizes on this. Her little bitty 4 year old body produces the biggest, grossest, most manly ones and when she gets it on her finger she chases her daddy around the house.
I'll send her your way next.
You are easily one of my top 5 favorites. Individualized! HAA!
Oh, you might change your mind after you have a little one wipe one on you. That there might just do you in...
it's just reflex... blow your nose and look to see what came out...
So I'm guessing you don't eat them, then...
I get grossed out really easily and now I am gagging and I haven't even finished reading your post. Funnyrunner is not helping.
STopping by from SITS.
LisaDay
Boogers gross me out and I can't look!!!
the guy who sits in the cube next to me has been snorking for the past week.
snorking? ya know, inhaling real hard with a stuffed nose so the phlegm gets pulled to the back of his throat so he can swallow it.
i can hear the snork and the swallow.
and i gag each time.
I love boogers.
hahahaa!! really?? they don't bother me...probably because i'm used to my 3 little monsters showing me theirs every time they pick their noses. some of them are actually quite impressive. question: how come we can't smell boogers? or can we?
How come there weren't pictures?
i gotta say, nothing really grosses me out when it's mine. anyone else's _____ (you can fill in the blank) and it's totally not okay. but if it's mine, i'm just fine.
BUT in honor of our dear sister lisa, i gotta say that one time she told me a story about her sister... i honestly can't remember which one but maybe you could write and ask her (and also ask her why on earth i remember the weirdest crap that she always seems to tell me). her sister was doing something when she looked down at her shirt and saw a crumb of something. so of course she ate it. and then she realized it wasn't a crumb after all, it was a crunchy kid booger!!!
ps- i'm glad you update lisa on my life because i've been having computer problems since thanksgiving and now my computer is all the way broke so dearelder.com isn't really my best friend like it used to be. so i've only written maybe one or two times since she got to finland. i resolve now to do better!
i can take boogers with the best of them.
unless its a wad of hair you just pulled out of my hair brush. then we have issues. dry heaving, gag over the sink just in case kind of issues.
Me, I'm used to both, being that I have twins that are 4. But snot makes me crazy, especially with it being prime allergy time right now. The snot is neverending. It's a river. A thick, green river. Ugh.
Well. I learned something new about you today!
Oh ew, boogers are definitely kind of gross!
You have to look to make sure you aren't dying. It's quit clear that you're choosing the smart (yet gross) path.
Well this just about made me retch. I'm with you, friend. Boogers are frigging guh-ross. It upsets me that something like that would come out of my face.
When you start producing blue boogers, I want you to call me. This will be one for the books. Thanks for sharing? LOL Keri
Baahahahaha!
I am impressed that kid poo doesn't flip your biscuit as much as boogers. Go you!
I'll have to agree with you, too. I gag a little when I need to clean the bogeys out of Nora's nose.
We're potty training around here, and I've seen some gross stuff. None of it has made me gag, though.
Bogeys? Bugers? What have you? Yes.
Booger make me gag. One of Tommy's friends was all, "Want one of my boogers?"
I think my favorite part of reading your blog is that there is absolutely no way to predict what you will write about. Other people I can sort of generally guess that's it'll probably be about school, travel, art, their two-year-old, etc. You're like clicking the shuffle button on iTunes and ending up with the Power Rangers theme song my boyfriend snuck on there two years ago.
It's delightful.
Thanks for informing me of the difference between snot and, its close relative, boogers(?)- what we here in the north east of England call boggeys.
Not a person bothered by blood, vomit or the diahorrors, snot turns my stomach and especially the thick, green (urgh I feel sick) kind that only very small children seem to produce.
Boogers and/or snot don't bother me. But I can't take vomit - the sight, sound, or smell. *shudder*
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