Posted by Jim at June 10th, 2004

The grocery store typically go to puts out a lot of free samples. The best of these undoubtedly include the bread, some of which appears to be made in the store.

Recently the store has made a strong effort to stop people from using their hands to pick up the bread. Prominent signs display messages to the effect of “Please use the tongs. If you pick up bread with your hands, people will get sick and die and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT.”

Admittedly that’s not precisely the message, but that is the gist of it.

While most poeple’s response to a sign like that is to cooperate and follow directions, other people will view the sign as an invitation to be obnoxious. Many people in the latter group are teenage boys.

Thus, I was not too surprised to see the incident that follows:

Two teenage boys walk up to the free bread samples. One decides to grab some bread. He picks up the bread with the tongs and then places the bread directly into his mouth (that’s right… with the tongs).

Yuck.