Stop The Spitting!

No matter where you go in this country you will see people spitting in the Street as well as on the Sportsfield!

Men, women, youth and so called sportsmen/women spitting no matter where they are, no matter who is around, they somehow can't help but eject the contents of their throat/nose right there in front of you. It's actually televised during football matches and should be stopped.

My opinion is that it should be made an offence to spit in a public place and/or on the sportsfield. If caught they should be handed an 'on the spit' fine, as well as being made to clear it up.

It must surely be a health risk alone. It's grossly obscene, a disgusting habit and therefore take note you 'spit bags' we are going to stop you!

Now THAT is the power of POE! 

I couldn't agree more Ron, If the person spitting is near enough to me I usually object but of course it's too late but perhaps my objections makes them think next time. Up to now I've received a few sheepish looks but no black eyes.

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I also remember the No Spitting signs.  In SA where TB is rife and we have drug resistant strains now, some companies have made no spitting a rule because of spreading this nasty disease.  Under certain circumstances it is a fireable offence.

The son of a close friend of mine returned from England recently, having spent two years there, and for several months had worked at an old-aged home.  It was thought he might have a cancerous tumour, but on investigation it was found that he had picked up TB in the old-aged home.  So obviously the problem has not been eradicated in Britain either and it only needs one to cough or spit for the disease to spread rapidly.  Take care everyone.

I agree with you all.  It's really gross to see people spitting.

A few years ago we had a high school student who worked part time in our office as part of a work study program.  On her last day, we took her out for pizza lunch.  Our boss was the only one who liked anchovies, so we made him get a cup of them on the side, not on the pizza.  Well, he didn't eat them all, so he brought them back to the office.  The co-worker in the next office from him wasn't there that day, but he chewed tobacco and was always spitting into people's wastebaskets.  Yuk!  So our boss left the anchovies on his desk and closed his office door (for him to find when he returned 3 days later), with a note that read, "This is what my wastebasket looks like after you spit into it."  

I was putting up with in JR. Green and some of the hispanics...as they chewed toabbco..I finally told him to many little kids around that could walk in it during the summer barefoot...find something to spit in. I use an hankerchief..bt occasionally rare, I've been snomwhere without it and spit...usually out my car window in an emergency...and later found out I needed to have my car washed. Yuck!  You can "bet" I'll be more careful as last day or so they found "TB" in an local High School in Vancouver, Wasington state. We could stop an lot of this if the doctors would let us have our pencillin back again. They think
EVERYTHING is an virus these days...it's not. I think when they diagnoised me for the "flu" it was e-coli frrom fresh greens...which came out in the paper an week later....by then I could of been dead had I not went into the emergency hospital...that cost me $3,000.We got stuck for $600 of it..plus. It is perhaps the IV they ran on me for several hours that got it out of my system. They said thier lab tests did not show exactly what it was I had..so they termed it an "flu bug"....massive diareaha with it...they stopped that also. But it was several days later before I felt well. We should have that paid off in 4 or 5 years. We are now paying off 3 hosptals more of less and dollar down an a dollar an week for lack of funds. The food inddustry is trying to posion us I think..they came out with last night's news saying over 50 percent of the meat they tested in grocery stores was laden with staph and strep germs...I would assume from inadequate handling. Though some sectors in the public are pushing vegetarism down our throats also....which for most people is the flour/paste/gravy diet of society. Short of raising your own food...if you have the land..there is little can be done. My fruit trees look like I lost them from to cool temperatures and massive rain this Spring so far.  It may be its being directed that way because of radiation from those power plants from Japan.. being such an scare.

Back in 1986, while making a deal on a new car, the salesman had a nasty habit of spitting. We were nearly ready to close the deal and I told him that if he spits in  my presence one more time, I'm walking.

Sure enough, we had the paperwork completed and we were walking out to do a last check on the car and he spat.

I tore the contract up, handed it to him, and got in my car and drove away.

Got a call form the dealership asking why I had terminated the deal at such a late stage. I told them the truth; the salesman was disgusting. He habitually spat wherever or whenever he pleased. I had asked him not to and told him I would walk if he did it again but he persisted.