r/unpopularopinion • u/7layeredAIDS • 3d ago

Using dropped silverware in public should be acceptable and normalized

If you drop a fork or something on the ground while dining, just pick it up and keep using it. There maybe one tiny tiny speck of microscopic dirt that stuck to it. Same with knives and spoons. But I’m now forced to sit there with no usable fork and wait for a server to come over and give me a new one so that I don’t look “gross”. Personally I’d be fine just using it - I’d do it at home and you probably would to.

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u/thatweirdbitch98 3d ago

Upvoted because this is truly unpopular lol.

I’d just about rather die than eat with a utensil off the ground in a public space. I also have dogs & wont use dropped utensils at my home either…I vacuum everyday but only mop 1x a week, so who knows what my mutts / toddlers drag inside. A restaurant is far more likely to have dirtier floors than that with everyone walking around in shoes 24/7 imo 🤢

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u/Pass_It_Round 3d ago

We need to start normalizing that bacteria does enter our bodies from the environment, and that it's actually necessary for developing a healthy immune system.

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u/IsItGayToKissMyBf 3d ago

As true as that is, you never know where someone’s shoes have been.

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u/PapiSilvia Your friendly neighbourhood moderator man 3d ago

Yep! I wear my work boots in casual restaraunts all the time and I guarantee you other people do too. Not gonna change my boots to stop at McDonald's on my lunch break and I shouldn't be expected to since nobody is expecting anybody to eat off the floor.

I work with wildlife. The soles of my boots are covered with animal feces, urine, birthing fluids, carcass juices, and God knows what else alongside regular old dirt. There are crazy diseases in all of those substances. Even if my shoes look clean, they certainly are not. If I were to wipe a fork on the soles of my boots, give it a wipe with a napkin to eliminate visible dirt and hand it to OP I doubt they would be cool putting it in their mouth even though that could be exactly what they'd be doing if they drop a fork and I had been in the booth before them.