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Yesterday, a man accosted me at the local post office. He shared with me that he had a dead snowblower. I mumbled a few words of commiseration. He ranted about not receiving payment for a snowblower he'd sold ten years ago. He mentioned the exorbitant cost of hiring someone for snow removal. He described measuring snow depth in his dead mother's backyard. As he continued to share, I tried not to stare at a long line of snot mucous dangling from one of his nostrils and nestled in his moustache. Should I have made a nose-swiping motion? Should I have searched in a pocket for a tissue and offered it to him? Should I have interrupted him to point out the booger? What is the etiquette?
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I'm sorry for laughing. This guy was just so obsessed with snow and snowblowers, he probably didn't notice the bogey escaping his nose.

Pointing things like that out is kinda dicey. Some people get angry when you point out something that could be potentially embarrassing. I gave up on pointing out these things because I don't wanna have altercations.

I remember sitting through a speech at a work meeting. A very serious behaviorist was explaining how to deal with one of our clients. The behaviorist's zipper was down the entire time. I sat there waiting for him to conclude his spiel, not saying anything...and trying very hard to stare anywhere else.

Anyhoo, I don't think anyone should be under moral condemnation for what they do or don't point out to people. Thats my thoughts, take them or leave them.
One can draw on these kinds of events in developing gripping, real scenes in one's writing. This is an Elmore Lennard moment... he would have jotted the event down and used it in one of his stories. How crazy and wild would your paragraph read in a story? Talk about realism! I can picture a dozen different twists one could use to paint a comedic or horrific scene where this fellow was an antagonist or maybe one of his henchmen.
I don't know the societal etiquette... but if you were my father or grandfather, you would have reached in your pocket without saying a word, taken out a handkerchief, and handed it to the person. Should the fellow give them a puzzled look, both would have raised a knuckle to their nose on the oozing side.

In the olden days, neighbors would not let a peer be in public with his maladies exposed. But this ended when society accepted the notion that it is okay to wear your pants around your knees, exposing everyone to the person's lack of modesty or grace. These are more examples of why society is in a downward spiral.
According to spidey 's fruity questionnaire I'm a grape. Huh, is that so? I don't drink wine, or enjoy grape jelly or any jellies for that matter. I'm not a fruit person at all. Am I one in a bunch? Am I squishy? Do I bask in the sun? Wait a minute. Dried grapes become raisins and those I do like. Remember the cute California Raisin commercials? "I heard it through the grape vine..." Damn, I'm not dried up and wrinkly like a raisin, am I? Raisins could be added to several desserts and I admit I love desserts. Meh, I'm a grape soon to be a raisin. Oh, I'm considered likeable. Thanks for the bit of fun.
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Maybe it's because you're a raisinable individual.
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