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An K.'s avatar

I remember that.. ugh ... nasty.. and often the spit was orange it seemed.. I was told that was a drug ..?...

Maybe if people were told that we need our spit/ fluids... scare them into dehydration..?!...

LOL

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Jack Everly's avatar

I thoroughly enjoy your well-written pieces. Great work. "Spitfalls" was clever as heck/hell. "Expectoration" is my nominee for word of the year.

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

lol, thanks a lot, Jack. It's great to know when the humor lands!

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Harry Watson's avatar

As a youngster living in northeast England back in the early sixties I recall seeing signs on older buses saying 'spitting is prohibited'. I guess it was an early 20th century problem in this part of England at least.

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

That's interesting. Good point, Harry.

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Rish Bharadwaj's avatar

And then there is urination and defecation in public followed by “stick no bills”.

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Raj Menon's avatar

If possible, I recommend adding a shit radar to the spit radar, specially to combat dog poop and cow dung on the streets. I recently had stepped into one strategically placed dog poop that led to a wasted 30 mins trying washing it off my crocs.

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