Nature is a persistent caller
The fundamentals of
nature and quite possibly the accumulation of years registered as age imposes
on the person the need to answer the call of nature at inopportune moments far
from the comfort of a home commode.
You get to a public
urinal that is describing itself with odours most foul but have to abide it and
as you release yourself with the effortless ease of bladder affirming aplomb
and notice the debris of discarded chewing gum in the urinal receptacle.
Dissolution of gum
Now, there might be a
lot of applications of urine that I would not care to list here for the sake of
polite discourse, but I have not found any study that suggests urine can
dissolve and decompose chewing gum.
Which leads me to ask
the question why anyone with a remotely functioning cranial capacity would
think the urinal is the best place to spit out their chewing gum? We all
know that chewing gum is probably one of the most annoyingly difficult
substances to dispose of.
Nascent gum archaeology
It is spat out to the
ground, on pavements where they can stick on the soles of your shoes, on the
under seats of benches or the public armrests where you can only wonder after
that mangling with the saliva of strangers, it becomes a vector for the
unimaginably unspeakable and disgusting germs.
Yet, it happens so
much that I wonder if DNA markers should not be harvested from chewing gum
discarded in public places other than bins for analysis towards seeking out the
antisocial culprits for prosecution.
Just a thought, and I
think it might be a good one too.
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