by Barbara Kasey Smith

Created on: October 01, 2009

Is blowing your nose in public rude?

*What actions do you take?:

This question cracked this writer up! Is it better to wipe and blow a nose that is running than to let it go and end up in the mouth? Nose blowing in public is not rude if you take your handkerchief out and turn around away from the public and blow your nose. Let's face it, when you have a problem with your nose, it's much better to blow it than to let it run down your nose to your lips...this can be really disgusting. It is also wise to blow your nose than to keep sucking it back up into the nasal track. People look at you when you do this like...gross!

One of the worse things for a person to have to do is to have to dismiss themselves from the table to go and blow their nose. They may jump up and down several times and destroy any sort of conversation at the table. Isn't it proper, to turn from the table, take out your handkerchief and blow your nose, and say, "I'm sorry." What does a person do...we dismiss ourselves and leave the table. If we are eating something that causes our eyes to water and our nose to run, we are in for a bit of blowing embarrassment. Can this be helped? Absolutely not, and it would be rude for the person to sit at the table and keep sucking it back up into the nasal passage to start to run again and again.

*Life is full of embarrassing things:

There are many things in our lives that we have to do that may come on as rude to some, but to me, there are simple ways to avoid what they may think as rudeness and that is to turn around from a table or friends and blow and wipe your nose. Yes, it might be disgusting but the person blowing their nose needed to do so and they did it in a proper manner.

We are all human, and yes, we all have things that will crop up that is absolutely embarrassing to us, but after all, what's a nose for if not to release mucus from our noses and we need to blow to get it out. We all have to do this at one time or another and it should not be considered as rude to others.

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