What is the worst case of "bad taste" you've ever seen occur?

Question

Especially in a public setting?

Answer 1

I was standing behind a couple in the checkout lane in Walmart. The guy had his front pressed up against the girl's back, and he was grinding his pelvis against her butt while sucking on her shoulder. His arms were around her, folded around her midriff.

I just stood there thinking, now isn't this just great. What do I do, I just pretend I don't notice anything.

Answer 2

I would have to say it happened to me this morning on the train. The lady sitting in front of me had extensions in her hair that were seriously grown out (her natural hair was grown out about an inch, and the extensions were just sort of tied on). Her hair had fuzz, lint, little "things" in it--God knows what. She kept taking her dragon lady fingernails and DIGGING at her scalp all over, then flipping her hands under her hair and sort of "fluffing" it out. Not only was it distasteful, but quite disgusting, if you ask me.

Then there was the time, four or five years ago, when my husband's grandmother died. After the funeral, the whole family went to a banquet hall to eat. (My mother and father in law footed the bill for about 80 people. Food was $20 per plate). My father-in-law's ex wife (nobody really sure how she got there, honestly) was putting food from this buffet into Gladware containers to take home. !!!

Answer 3

This story is more one of "rudeness" in public, but it jumped out at me when I read your question.

One night, while I was out to eat with my dad at a relatively cheap "all-you-can-eat-buffet" type restaurant, we noticed a table with a woman in a white dress and a man in overalls and a white collared shirt. They were with some family members, and after quietly watching for a few minutes, we realized that the couple was eating their wedding dinner. It was kind of sad, really, given what wonderful celebrations most of us are able to have at our weddings.

As we watched this scene, we noticed a table of college aged guys that were obviously drunk or had been drinking. They were belching and farting audibly, and starting yelling over to the couple. They were asking the couple if they were brother and sister, if they just got married because she was pregnant (which she didn't appear to be), and made several references to living in a trailer park.

This went on for much of the dinner, and at one point, one of the drunk men went to the buffet and got a plate of beans and took it to the couple as a "newlywed special". All through this, the couple stayed quiet and maintained their composure. When they were finished, they quietly got up and left, and never made a scene, but I was horrified by how rude and inappropriate the college guys made what should have been a special night for the two newlyweds.

It made me feel sick, and what's worse, I didn't do anything to stop it. Maybe the worst taste was mine... :)

Answer 4

I was at the Illinois State Fair, and after a concert, we went to this food tent where they sold ribs. These total hillbillies in there (2 couples) were hammered. The guys were eating ribs. To avoid getting their 1990's country-western attire (you know, the loud, color-block type shirts) dirty while eating ribs, they took off their shirts, thus exposing their man-boobies and hung them on the backs of their chairs. This isn't where it ends. They continued to devour their food, with BBQ sauce dripping off their faces and belching loudy as their bleach-blonde, clothing 2 sizes too small, blue-eyeshadow-to-the-eyebrow honeys giggled in amusement. I wish I'd had a camera. Jeff Foxworthy would be proud.

PS: The kicker: mullets

Oh, I have another. I was in the checkout line at Save-A-Lot, a super-discount grocery store. There was this married couple in line in front of me. She kept correcting every word he said and everything he did. They were somewhat elderly. I think they had a grandkid with them. Then, really loud, she threw the "F-bomb" at him. The cashier, and everyone else, was shocked and tried to keep a straight face. I believe it's not people's income, but their behaviors, that make them white trash.

Answer 5

When I was growing up, our neighbors next door would have what they called "Tupperware Night". They would take all the tupperware containers they had in the house and would go to eat at the all you can eat buffet. They would just keep filling up plates and then filling the Tupperware containers at the table, so they had food at home for the rest of the week. Both of them absolutely hated to cook and this was their solution. Keep in mind, these were not people that had money problems.....

Answer 6

Not sure if this qualifies but....when a co-worker told my boss that his father is gravely ill and he may need to leave early or miss a few days with little notice, my boss replied "oh, playing the death card?"

I thought that was one of the cruelest, most insensitive things a person could say, even if he was joking (he wasn't). And this man is college educated and calls himself a Christian. I think not.

Answer 7

A lady that ALWAYS wears a pink sweatshirt with a playboy bunny on it to volunteer at the elementary school my kids go to. I wonder why the teacher of the class she volunteers at does not say anything. And she proudly walks out with the "volunteer" sticker on the front of it. And you have to have the sticker on the shirt you wear in class.

Answer 8

I've actually witnessed the following on the subway in New York:
-Flossing next to me
-Removing dentures to file them down using a nail file
-Giving herself a pedicure (removing old polish and adding a new coat)
-Ear wax and nose picking/eating/playing

I've also witnessed someone use their own hair to floss their teeth (not on the subway...for once!)

Answer 9

A guy taking a cell phone call while dropping a deuce in a public restroom stall.

Answer 10

Well a lot , i hate those people who sniff their saliva force specially after their meal while washing their , i experience that in the restaurant . and eat like a dog , mostly happening her in the middle East.