Blowing your nose in class - rude or acceptable?

[Orchid]

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Just a great reminder that we're all basically the same, isn't it?

 

[redhen]

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Just a great reminder that we're all basically the same, isn't it?

Yep..

*Tissue?*

 

[Orchid]

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Just a great reminder that we're all basically the same, isn't it?

Yep..

*Tissue?*

Why yes, thanks!

 

[Beekissed]

Yes!!!!

Isn't Snert Hagar the HOrrible's dog???

I love that word....very descriptive and I agree, Orchid, I'd rather hear a blow than a snert! Like someone eating their breakfast of snot right next to you.....

I'd say it's not rude but rather unavoidable in a classroom setting.

How about in a restaurant??? What are you all's thoughts on that?

 

[silkiechicken]

In a class of 6 or a class of 800 in the auditorium... sometimes people have got to blow their nose... at least you don't have to be the one with alergies or the sickness.

I think it is fine.

 

[Magic Birdie]

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Yep..

*Tissue?*

Why yes, thanks!

 

[Orchid]

It has to be better than what my sixth grader said the other day - "Mom, there are still two kids in my class who pick it and lick it!" He was appropriately appalled.


I gagged just thinking about it. I really did.

 

[lishah2000]

I find it totally unacceptable in a restaurant or anywhere others are eating. Makes me very angry because it ruins my meal. In that situation it is so easy to leave the room.

Doesn't bother me at any other time or place, although I prefer to go somewhere private myself.

 

[Dirtyhip]

Us cyclists just hold one nostril and blow snot rockets over our shoulder.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

I have no qualms with people blowing their noise in public so long as their snot does not make an aquaintence with my skin. I do not find it rude, and much better than having snot running down one's face (I hated how this was 90% of the kids I knew as a kindergartener...I still have nightmares). However, in England, it is generally considered polite to hold one's cough or nose blowing until a quiet break, such as a lull during a play. When over there, you will hear a huge cacaphony of withheld coughs during any pause. XD I like someone's suggestion of sitting closer so you can hear better. If truly disruptive, you could always lightly and happily ask them something like, "ah, poor thing, sounds like you have a cold. But oh my gosh, you are a super powerful nose blower! I would kill to have lungs like that, haha. Do you mind waiting for pauses when our prof is speaking though? That'd help me out a ton because I record his lectures, and my darn recorder picks up the sniffles and not his voice." No need to suffer in silence or lecture about etiquette in such a situation. Play it cooool.