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That's true, mariss. No matter what type of rude or strange behavior some of us may perpetrate on others, there always seems to be that one person who will go the extra mile and top anything you do! 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 19, 2013 at 8:30 AM
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Well, that just shows how others almost always seem worse than us.
posted by
mariss9
on March 18, 2013 at 2:30 PM
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Funny,TAPS? Perhaps! But it was even stinkier! I guess you had to be there . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on March 15, 2013 at 9:50 AM
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That's pretty funny, a big buttery, smelly bandage on one finger.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 15, 2013 at 8:39 AM
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Fortunately, sam, the ride home wasn't all that long. Obviously he didn't do it on purpose. In fact, he probably wasn't even aware of what was happening until well after the fact . . . like when he stunk us out in my car! Yeah, some things just don't make sense . . .
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JimmyA
on March 15, 2013 at 5:36 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Oh ....i think I would just meet this friend for a coffee or a beer!!
Actually, Kabu, this may be one of the last times I went out to dinner with this particular friend, but not necessarily because of this actual incident. We've just grown apart over the years. If you recall one of my recent blogs about a fellow Leo who was, for the most part, nothing like me at all . . . this was him! Today, 99.9% of the time, my dinner partner is my wife, and she would never dip a gauze-covered hand into anything!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 15, 2013 at 5:34 AM
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I don't know if I would have gone that far, Wiley, but I'm sure the temptation may have been there! As far as being a "buddy," we've known each other for nearly fifty years, and I guess after a decent amount of time you learn to make certain allowances. But we don't see each other as much as we once did, but not necessarily because if incidences like this. Yuck indeed . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on March 15, 2013 at 5:29 AM
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Some things don't make sense! WOW! I think I would have gone mad before I got him and his gauze out of the car! sam 
posted by
sam444
on March 14, 2013 at 7:48 PM
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Re: Re: Oh ....i think I would just meet this friend for a coffee or a beer!!
like Wiley and I, almost always just we too.
posted by
Kabu
on March 14, 2013 at 7:09 PM
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JimmyA
I don't want him as a buddy, people die from actions like he performed, Yuck
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 14, 2013 at 7:05 PM
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Yuck indeed, Justi! Well, let me put it this way . . . this is a grown man who I assumed was taught how to use a fork a long time ago! Obviously I didn't notice that he was using his injured hand to do the initial dipping! If I had, I may have said something, and spared myself that long, stinky ride home . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 1:57 PM
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Brave, C C T? Perhaps! But when it's someone you've known all your life, I guess you kinda "bite your tongue" ( so to speak ) when it comes to dining out together. And I guess if I had eaten any garlic, it may have countered any odors coming from anybody else! Don't worry . . . there won't be a next time. If I see a gauze-covered bandage on any other dinner mate, the dinner will be off!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 1:50 PM
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Jimmy
You are a nicer person than I. I would have asked him if he was really going to dip the dressing on his finger in the lobster dressing? Yuck.
posted by
Justi
on March 14, 2013 at 9:53 AM
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Pity you had not eaten garlic Jimmy. Quite the disinfectant supposedly. That bandage would have given me the creeps somehow. you were a brave diner. 
posted by
C_C_T
on March 14, 2013 at 9:10 AM
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Re: Oh ....i think I would just meet this friend for a coffee or a beer!!
I would now, Kabu! One other time when we went out to dinner, he ordered snails for an appetizer! Snails! I know there are a lot of people who enjoy them, and in certain parts of the world they are considered delicacies! But they're still snails! Grasshoppers, ants, beetles, dragonflies, I wouldn't want to eat any of them! Thanks the gods that my dinner partner is almost exclusively my wife anymore, and she would never eat snails either!
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JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:23 AM
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There may have been, Annicita, but I guess his thinking was, we're on our way home anyway, I'll just wait til then ( the restaurant was only about ten minutes away ). But since he had the lobster, the odor didn't affect him as much as it affected me! Some day I'd love to put the shoe on the other foot, but I don't know of any other "smelly" appetizers that I could force him to endure . . .
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JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:17 AM
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And that's one contest, Against, that I wouldn't want to be around to see . . . or smell!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:14 AM
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It definitely is not, adnohr! And what probably compounded the issue was that I'm not a seafood eater at all! I didn't mind my friend ordering lobster. He could have ordered anything he wanted. But there was no need to take some of it home with us . . .
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JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:13 AM
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Me too, lovelylady! But, as they say, we learn from our mistakes. So, from now on, if I ever have dinner again with someone who has a gauze-covered wound on their hands, I'll know to insist they use a fork throughout dinner, regardless of what they're eating!
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JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:10 AM
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I didn't either, lustor. But I guess that combination of fresh lobster, melted butter and dried blood was not going to smell like a bed of roses! Yeah, it was awful . . .
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JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:08 AM
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To be fair, Naut, I didn't really try to talk him out of going out to dinner, although he could have simply given me a rain-check on his own! But no . . . he still wanted to go, and I was forced to smell that bandage all night long! The night wouldn't have been so bad if he had just picked up that fork in the first place . . . ! 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:06 AM
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Perfectly understandable, jean. Yes, double dippers will put me off too, and I very rarely have the opportunity to share my drinks with anyone ( except my wife of course, and I believe that's still permissible ).
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JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:03 AM
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Consider yourself fortunate, FSI. Although it was probably bad table manners for my friend to eat with his fingers in the first place, the end result of putting up with that stinky gauze just made it worse!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 14, 2013 at 6:00 AM
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oh gross! why didn't he take the bandage off and throw in a nearby trash can...surely there were gas stations or quick shops that have them outside....
posted by
Annicita
on March 14, 2013 at 5:52 AM
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He could rival George Castanza at a food-dipping party.
posted by
Against4WindsOn2Flam
on March 13, 2013 at 9:33 PM
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Oh ....i think I would just meet this friend for a coffee or a beer!!
posted by
Kabu
on March 13, 2013 at 5:36 PM
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I enjoy lobster, but it's not so appetizing presented on a bandage.
posted by
adnohr
on March 13, 2013 at 3:14 PM
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UGH! I know how badly open wounds can smell, even when tightly bound in gauze...so sorry you had to endure that...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on March 13, 2013 at 12:16 PM
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hmm strange I would of never thought that would cause such a smell
posted by
Lanetay
on March 13, 2013 at 11:04 AM
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Jimmy
I'm not overly fastidious, and I have eaten a lot of lobster with my hands, usually on the beach in Nova Scotia; they were fresh off the boat, and we brought a pot and made a fire. Even in a restaurant - eating lobster tends to be a fairly business under the best of circumstances. But I would never even dream of eating lobster with a big bandage on my hand - in fact, I probably wouldn't go to a restaurant at all! It's terribly unappetizing, and, as far as I am concerned, an imposition on fellow diners...I think your buddy Dave needs to examine his priorities...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 13, 2013 at 10:42 AM
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hope when he got home he changed his bandage right away! i am so fussy about my food and what i eat it in, and i find it impossible to drink out of a container someone else has taken a drink out of even if there is a straw. (double dippers will also keep me out of the dip).
posted by
jeansaw
on March 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM
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I am sure glad that I was not in the vehicle after that. Fortunately I have never had a breech in restaurant etiquette have an effect like that on me.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 13, 2013 at 9:43 AM
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