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Once years back a few of us friends had gathered in the college hostel room I shared with two other girls. Someone or other had brought some ripe mangoes from home and we girls set about peeling, chopping, gobbling. Once the lot was finished, we got up to go wash our hands now sticky with mango juice. Luckily for me, I glanced back just then, and what I saw made my eyes pop out.
One of the girls was calmly reaching out to wipe her unwashed hand on my bath towel spread out to dry on a chair.
“Hey!!! WHAT are you doing?” I exclaimed, shocked, unable to believe my eyes.
She had the grace to grin sheepishly and quietly slip out of the room to wash her hands at the tap outside. But what if I had my back turned? She’d have wiped her hands and walked away leaving me a mango-juice stained towel, right?
It’s been years, and sometimes I wonder if there had been other times unknown to me, and what if anything I had wiped down my clean body with after many a refreshing bath. *shudders at the thought*
©Shail Mohan 2016
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The mind boggles… !
Now you’ve got me thinking about my college dorm experience, and wondering the same thing. Yikes! 🙂
I would like to know what she was thinking. Seen a lot of people who do things to “others things” that they wouldn’t do to their own..Why? I wonder.
Living that experience right now. My soap case (to hold bath soap) just went missing. Low and behold, I just found it on my roommate’s bed just a few days ago. Go figure.
oh my gosh! the mind truly boggles. the other day my toddler was playing with some sand/gravel in the building, and a grandma sitting next to me suddenly said, you don’t know who spat there, and i just took my toddler and ran home 😛
Geee!!! Yucky thought!!
Hahahaaaaa….imagination will fly now!
My worst nightmare!
eeewwww!!!
Not only bad manners, but unhygienic too
Wish you’d had red bricks with you
About the other bit
You’ve stayed fit
So set aside the thoughts — don’t rack and rue!
Thank you so much for that yucky thought now in my mind. Think about the dish towels that we dry our clean plates and glasses with. Did someone in the house wipe dirty hands on those?
Judy
I don’t miss dorm life one bit.
Ugh! Though on this cold, windy, wintry day I’m drooling at the thought of ripe mangoes.So I thank you for that thought at least!
That is such a great story. Do you think of it every time you grab the towel?
Reminds me of the reason I switched to liquid soap from the normal soap. Some dormies have no qualms in ‘borrowing’ your toiletries (Eurghhh). Liquid body wash cost at least a 100 bucks more than the other, which was a big deal in hostel where you have to live on meagre pocket money. But it is still better than sharing the other soap.