Nice high class mall full of nose pickers!!

I haven't seen this in malls, but I've seen my share of them while they're driving their cars! I guess they don't realize that anyone can see them. Anyway, I agree that it is gross! Not only gross, but highly unsanitary as well. If these people have a cold, or even just the cold virus with no symptoms yet, anything they touch with that finger is going to hold onto that virus for awhile and anyone could come along and pick it up (high probability among fellow nose-pickers!). It seems that morals, decency, etiquette, cleanliness, and just plain common sense have gone out the window with so many people these days. It's like no one cares about anything anymore, even themselves. I don't believe in 'putting on airs' to try to impress anyone, but picking your nose, especially in public, tells me that these people are basically pigs and they are no one I want to deal with or even know. Yeah, you've got to keep your eyes open all the time and be wary of everyone. You've got to assume the worst when dealing with people you don't know. I think, being the blunder-mouth that I am, I would probably want to go into that store with the salesman who picked his nose, put on a plastic glove and hold out my hand so he could shake it. Once he gave me that 'huh?' look () I'd explain that I saw him picking his nose with it and I didn't want to touch it. I bet he would very quickly 'find' something else that needed to be done right away and lose that sale because of his embarrassment. Or, if he wasn't the least bit phased by my actions, I'd tell him I've decided to go with another salesman whom I did not see picking his nose. Yeah, it's a shame that society is going downhill so fast these days. That's one reason my husband and I moved to the country... to put as much distance between "society" and ourselves as we could.

we walked in to a restaurant .. we saw the cook .. sneezing and clearing the nose mucus ... wiping his hands on the apron ... we walked out .. cheers

eeeww! that is disgusting! omg what had they touched in the mall with a loaded finger?! no i have never seen anybody other than little kids picking their nose in a public place like that. i have seen GUYS picking their nose while driving alone in their car. and i cant remember ever seeing a woman pick her nose ever. what mall was it? im not going there either lol!

i would have complained to his boss

Must be a persons habit. Somebody should have advice them not to do things like that in public. That is way too gross.

the only thiogn we can hope for is that we dont see what he is doing, forgt nose picking, just imaging what all he/she might touching inside the kitchen when we are waiting for our orders to be brought in the restaurant, oh god, then we may never feel like eating out

oh come on that is so gross. i cant stand when people pick there nose. or go to the bathroom with out washing there hands. when i use a public restroom i watch people to see if they will wash there hands or not. most people dont and its really gross to think about. i used to be friends with a girl who used to pick her nose all the time in grade school. and i asked her why do you do that its nbasty. she said i dont have anything better to do with my hands

haha...i have never seen anyone doing that other than the kids, even they take tend to put their fingers down once we see them and put their head down out of shyness...yes, it is gross...about the public, we cant say, but the shopkeeper must have taught some basic manners to his employees i guess

Nah I have not been to one. I make sure that I go to proper malls here in the Philippines. Though most of our malls here are pretty posh even if the state is really losing money from corruption. I think people here are just more conscious about how they look like and their status. That is usually the case for third world countries. The rich just dominates the place and dictates behaviour. Its extreme, the barrier between the rich and the poor. So if you're in the middle and trying to emulate the rich you'll get scared of doing some eeeky stuff like picking your nose in the public.