Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Get Your Hand Out of My Face

In a public building’s restroom, I asked an egressing (and regressive) man, “Don’t you want to wash your hands?” Knowing, as I do, that so many people have tacky toilet habits, and seeing, as we do, that handshaking is just like that in glorious Ghanaian culture, I find myself thinking in 2 out of every 3 greeting situations: Get your hand out of my face. Throw in the predilection for public nose-picking, and the panic becomes: Get your effing hand out of my face!

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  1. Ha ha ha ha.

    I narrowly dodged a booger coming out of a huge trotro once. Oh the horror!

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  2. Nana, you are spot on with this one!And then people get offended when you don't shake their hands!!! GROSS!!!

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  4. I feel the same way! I have developed such a phobia for shaking hands, especially when the outstretched hand is a guy's. I'm sure some women are guilty of this nasty habit too but I associate it more with guys 'cos they are the ones see peeing outside everywhere I go.

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  5. Spot on Nana Yaw!!! You couldn't have described it better.

    @Nana Yaa: A friend from work refuses to shake guys hands because she is convinced they are all public pee-ers but I once saw a woman at 37 (very close to the road) standing up with her undergarments down emitting a golden stream! No shame in the world...it was early evening too.

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  6. Lol!! Woe betide the one unafraid to shake haha. Damn now that is N-A-S-T-Y! Im in hysterics now :-)

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  7. LMAO! I know right! The funny thing is that my dad was a doctor and also overly polite, so he had to live with the curse of the inescapable outstretched only-God-knows-what-grossness-it-has-touched hands of thanksgiving which he could not turn down,repeatedly, and wash his hands every five minutes.....the sad thing is he passed these traits on to me :(

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  8. grrr... that is disgusting. I always used to avoid this one man at church! Dude would be digging in his nose like he's looking for treasures all the time! SICK!

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