Lessons from Life ~ Everybody Nose It's Wrong

The other day I pulled into a gas station to put some overpriced 87 octane gasoline into my car. At the pump adjacent to mine was a family in an SUV. The back hatch was open and the two young children were looking at the mom and dad as they stood there and talked. As they talked, dad was pumping gas and mom WAS PICKING HER NOSE!!!

And the site of mom picking her nose did not seem out of the ordinary to them. They continued to talk and she kept mining for gold. This had to go on for 30 seconds or more.

What came next was even more bizzare. As the last juicy nugget was removed, she, without hesitation, and without any shocking looks from dad and the bobsy twins, she opened wide and slid the finger into her mouth to suck all the goo from her finger like a fudge chocolate flavored freeze pop.

Growing up, my mom would have chopped my finger off if she saw me sticking it up my nose. Picking your nose was something you just didn't do. It was unsanitary, gross and offensive. I was told that when you picked your nose that worms would grow under your finger nails and since I was a finger nail biter (story for another day) that the worms would go down my throat and grow in my belly. O.K., so mom had a way of sensationalizing things to keep me from doing some things.

Be that as it may, Nose Picker is not something I could ever put on my resume. Thanks MOM.
Thank God my mom wasn't a nose picker. I would have been mortified if we pulled up to a gas pump and mom decided to pick a jolly rancher from her nose in front of anyone who cared to watch. The taunts from my friends would have been unmerciful.

But this family didn't seem to care or notice. Am I missing something here? You know, one Australian doctor sings the praises of nose picking and eating. What a freaking fruitcake.

Here's what I think happens at bedtime at the Gas Station Nose Picker House....
Mom: "Time for bed girls, don't forget to brush your teeth and pick your nose."

Bobsy Twins: "We already picked our nose at McDonald's, do we need to pick it again?"

The only reason God didn't include "Thou shalt not pick your nose in public" in the Ten Commandments is because He thought that man would have enough sense not to do it. O.K. God, now there are 2 things you should have done differently. You should have never created snakes and you should have made nose picking in public a sin.