Top Six Discreetly Disgusting Items

The world is so full of obscenities and atrocities that upon learning or observing any of them one could easily ascertain how disgusting of a place it truly is.

Now I'm not stating anything new by telling you, dear reader, that the world is a disgusting place.
What I'm also not doing is being very specific.

The reason for that is because "disgusting" is something of an umbrella word, where a myriad of human action, from picking one's nose to picking one's grandmother's pocket, can be categorized as such.

So instead of continuing on like this I'll just get down to what I mean by disgusting.
I mean the nose picking, which is to say, I mean "germs."

To be honest, the entirety of this article has, at its center, a selfish motivation.
What I've compiled here is a short list of six "disgusting" items, items I've observed with an unmitigated horror at how people went about smothering themselves in microbes without a second thought.

What I hope for in return is that people will add onto this list, therefore giving me more places avoid.

First up to bat is the Karaoke Mic. I'm not sure how many people have seen that video of an uncovered sneeze in slow motion, but I assure you that if you wanted to make a video just as, if not more, disgusting it would be a slow motion video of an enthusiastic drunkard belting out the notes to "Born to be Wild" all over the microphone everyone else will be sharing for the rest of the night.

Second, just to get it out of the way, is the infamous Double Dipping. Professor and Food Microbiologist Paul L. Dawson of Clemson University has more to say about it here: http://www.physorg.com/news121155799.html

Buffet Tongs. The buffet itself is a dubious place to eat, having within it plenty of items to concern one's self with, but what I'm most disturbed by is when patrons use the tongs to pick up foods like pizza. You see where I'm going with this. Pizza is one of many foods eaten by holding it with your hands! Thus making buffet tong usage as bad as some dirty stranger fondling the food before depositing it on your plate.

Holy water. Now this is not my trying to be controversial, I have a real concern about a large group of people dipping their unwashed hands into a pool of water, especially during cold season.

Massage Chairs. Here's the scenario: I'm at the local mall enjoying a smoothie across from a store that will go nameless (as to keep myself free of lawsuits). A large sweaty man wearing what large sweaty men tend to wear, sweat-soaked t-shirts darkened to display to the world just how sweaty they really are, sits down in a massage chair with a friendly yellow "try me" sign propped up next to it. He tries it, promptly covers the entire thing with sweat, gets up and walks away. After he's gone the friendly yellow sign attracts unsuspecting others to give the sweat covered chair a go.

Lastly, and I'm not sure of the technical name for this item, is the baby seat area of a shopping cart. Children that young can't help the fact that they'll drool or vomit all over the place, nor can they help if other "accidents" happen while sitting there. What can be helped is pulling out that same compartment to place one's produce.

There you have it, my list of what makes the world a little more disgusting.
I look forward to your contributions.