BBC News’ Day in Pictures today features this lovely lady:

In case you can’t tell, she’s spitting on the floor behind her. Indoors. While wearing a floor-sweeping dress. Erm. *puke*

Apparently China is attempting to make its citizens clean up their bad habits before the Olympics next year. Spitting indoors is a good place to start!

I’ve never seen anyone spit on the floor inside of any place, but where I come from, spitting outside is commonplace. In the country, it’s alright to be in the yard and let one fly, but I have a problem with people who spit in public places. I’ve seen it hundreds or thousands of times in my life. Spitting on the sidewalk, spitting into landscaped bushes, spitting on walls… Both northern and southern people seem to have the same love of spitting every-frickin’-where.

Every big city I’ve been to has the same sidewalk design: dotted with blobs of gum stains. This is the same as spitting in my mind, but it’s so common and probably an unconscious habit of millions of people.

This is a good time to remember “Do unto others” — if you wouldn’t like to see, step on, smell (ugh), or be hit by someone else’s mouth snot, don’t let anyone see, step on, smell or be hit by yours. It’s simple consideration.

While you’re at it, stop throwing cigarettes out the window of your car, too. And maybe stop smoking so you won’t have as much stinky, bloody, chunky spit in the first place.

And baby’s spit still counts.

Thanks.