Things you've seen in Detroit that make you go "ewwwww".

**grumpyoldlady** · May-03-09, 08:13 PM

Try to keep the answers short. Name something you have seen in Detroit that made you go "ewwwwww!!!"

I'll go first.

Guy riding the bus who was picking his nose and then consuming what he had acquired.

**FlyingJ** · May-03-09, 08:26 PM

You're new here, aren't you?

Blarf · May-03-09, 08:31 PM

I would say bums taking dumps on downtown sideways during the day, but that's more funny than gross.

LodgeDodger · May-03-09, 08:41 PM

Yep, I've tried to ignore that one. Interestingly enough, I've witnessed same in Paris. Only in Paris, the guy who was crapping wasn't a bum.

**Django** · May-03-09, 09:03 PM

Go Grumpy, this should be a pretty funny thread.

I got locked up for a traffic violation downtown and while in the tank there was this guy wiping down the very used common toilets with a napkin, then he would wipe the sweat from his brow with the same napkin.

Do I win??

**313WX** · May-03-09, 09:30 PM

The Incinerator.

**drjeff** · May-04-09, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Blarf

I would say bums taking dumps on downtown sideways during the day, but that's more funny than gross.

The only place I've ever seen a guy dumping in public was in the Paris subway.

**catch22** · May-04-09, 03:45 PM

I have a lot of gross stories from my telephone installer days in NW Detroit, but this one's up there. I was installing a wall phone in a very filthy kitchen. A 6-year-old kid wandered in and proceeded to make himself a bowl of cereal. He opened the sugar bowl and a bunch of roaches scooted away from it. Not missing a beat, he whacked as many as he could reach with the back side of his spoon. He then proceeded to use the same spoon to put sugar on his cereal and then eat it. I just about barfed.

blksoul_x · May-04-09, 09:35 AM

Yuppie 'basic white' people moving to places like Mid-town admiring and living a pseudo life of being poor all the while sporting designer labels from top used clothing stores from the Pointes, with lap-top back-packs and walking their fancy pure breads dogs......ewwwww!__go figure!

blksoul_atcha!
The BJL, the color you love to hate!

**j to the jeremy** · May-04-09, 10:09 AM

Hey Bsoul- what's a "Basic" white person? Although I get what you're trying to say, there's definitely a better way to say it.

**GOAT** · May-04-09, 10:13 AM

Has this place jumped the shark? WTF?

**eriedearie** · May-04-09, 10:16 AM

I was riding the bus home from work and where the bus turned onto Gratiot heading North - there was a bum peeing right into the street.

Then one time when I carpooled with a coworker, we were driving home from work on I94 East and were in bumper to bumper traffic. I looked at the car next to us and the woman driving - she was alone - was --- oh, I call it - practicing oral sex on a half peeled banana. She was NOT biting portions off and eating them. Her tongue and mouth were...well you get the picture! I told my friend to take a look and we both watched her "performance" for a couple of miles till traffic started moving. The woman was so intent on what she was doing she never saw us looking at her.

I think maybe that was when the word "multi-tasking" came into my vocabulary.

**raptor56** · May-04-09, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by eriedearie

I was riding the bus home from work and where the bus turned onto Gratiot heading North - there was a bum peeing right into the street.

Then one time when I carpooled with a coworker, we were driving home from work on I94 East and were in bumper to bumper traffic. I looked at the car next to us and the woman driving - she was alone - was --- oh, I call it - practicing oral sex on a half peeled banana. She was NOT biting portions off and eating them. Her tongue and mouth were...well you get the picture! I told my friend to take a look and we both watched her "performance" for a couple of miles till traffic started moving. The woman was so intent on what she was doing she never saw us looking at her.

I think maybe that was when the word "multi-tasking" came into my vocabulary.

Was her other hand on the steering wheel, or was she seriously involved in self multitasking? lol

**eriedearie** · May-04-09, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by raptor56

Was her other hand on the steering wheel, or was she seriously involved in self multitasking? lol

Her other hand was on the wheel! She didn't seem concerned about herself. LOL We often thought perhaps she was practicing for a role in a porn flick!

LodgeDodger · May-04-09, 12:10 PM

This really isn't the grossest, but it does disgust me: bums who blow their noses directly onto the sidewalk.

First time I saw that, I stopped wearing sandals for my tours.

LodgeDodger · May-04-09, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by eriedearie

I was riding the bus home from work and where the bus turned onto Gratiot heading North - there was a bum peeing right into the street.

Then one time when I carpooled with a coworker, we were driving home from work on I94 East and were in bumper to bumper traffic. I looked at the car next to us and the woman driving - she was alone - was --- oh, I call it - practicing oral sex on a half peeled banana. She was NOT biting portions off and eating them. Her tongue and mouth were...well you get the picture! I told my friend to take a look and we both watched her "performance" for a couple of miles till traffic started moving. The woman was so intent on what she was doing she never saw us looking at her.

I think maybe that was when the word "multi-tasking" came into my vocabulary.

My first thoughts were of the "Happy Days" episode where The Fonz was giving Potsie and Ralph dating advice. He was having them do "lip-ups" on the side of the pinball machine. They were practicing for a date. Perhaps this woman was doing same?

diver1369 · May-04-09, 10:16 AM

[QUOTE=blksoul_x;15167]Yuppie 'basic white' people moving to places like Mid-town admiring and living a pseudo life of being poor all the while sporting designer labels from top used clothing stores from the Pointes, with lap-top back-packs and walking their fancy pure breads dogs......ewwwww!__go figure!

blksoul_atcha!
The BJL, the color you love to hate![/QUOTE

You!

**rajdet** · May-04-09, 10:27 AM

This is becoming my favorite all time thread.

**m3h.shallal** · May-04-09, 10:45 AM

Public urination
incinerator
factories in southwest Detroit including Marathon Oil.
also i've seen my fair share of prostitution since i've moved to Detroit.

**j to the jeremy** · May-04-09, 10:47 AM

Yes, the smell around Marathon in SW Detroit has made me close the windows numerous times.

**Gistok** · May-04-09, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by rajdet

This is becoming my favorite all time thread.

For a lot of folks who have posted here for a couple of years, the favorite thread is likely the "Midtown Vortex" thread... go find it in the archives... it's hilarious!

LodgeDodger · May-04-09, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Gistok

For a lot of folks who have posted here for a couple of years, the favorite thread is likely the "Midtown Vortex" thread... go find it in the archives... it's hilarious!

I couldn't find that thread...

4real · May-04-09, 01:23 PM

Watching a city council meeting on TV, makes me regurgitate my dessert.

**Flanders** · May-04-09, 05:07 PM

A fast-food oil/grease tanker truck overturned and spilled part of its contents nearby where I worked about 10 years ago, and apparently every vehicle and that got within "smelling distance" of the accident soon pulled off the road so that its occupants could get out and retch up the undigested contents of their stomachs . Fortunately it was mostly cleaned up by the time that I got off work, and the odor was still detectable but very weak. Several of my co-workers had gone out to lunch and were victims. They told me that the used grease was the most powerful and gut wrenching stench that they had ever come in contact with.

When I was a very young child living in Detroit, I was walking down an alley that ran parallel to Gratiot one hot summer afternoon, and there was several flattened rats that had been run over by a truck, and their guts were smeared all over the pavement, but they looked like they were moving, I bent down to get a better look and the "moving" was caused by thousands of maggots..ewwww!! My first look at both dead rats and maggots was something I never forgot.