This morning I stood in the doorway of the D train as it went over the Manhattan Bridge, I happened to look to my right and spotted a woman with her finger digging for gold up her nose. 

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(photo: Keaner)

I watched in disgust as she pulled out a lime green nugget, rolled it into a ball and began to try and flick it off of her fingertip.  She flicked, and flicked, and flicked - and couldn’t get the lime green nugget off.  Then she raised her hand and dropped it down really fast in hopes of helping gravity pull the lime green nugget off - this too did not work.

She then proceeded to switch between the flicks and the hand drops and began to get visibly annoyed by her picked snot.  She then peeled it off of her index fingertip and had it on the tip of her thumbnail.  Once again she tried the raise hand and drop it down fast and hard hoping that it would fall off.  Yet again this did not work.

My emotion went from disgust to utter joy from the amusement of watching the disgusting human being be stuck with her nasty lime green nugget ball on her fingers AND being annoyed by it not leaving her body. 

Eventually she was able to flick it up and off of her fingers…

Into the air it flew to the right of her, and onto the lap of the young woman who wasn’t paying attention to what was going on in front of her.  Nobody said a thing, and I’ll give you one guess as to who the public nose picking vandal was…