Tasty napkin, plus dessert
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I took my first trip to Chicago last weekend. A friend and I were riding the train from O'Hare and a well dressed reasonably attractive young woman got on.
She had a cell-phone and a to-go bag from McDonalds with a salad. After eating the salad, she proceeds to take out a napkin, rip a piece off, cumple it up, and quickly pop it in her mouth. She does this for the entire napkin, making sure that noone is looking. (I saw all this out of the corner of my eye.)
This continues for 2 more napkins. After this strange meal, she gets lip-liner out of her purse, and applies it. I'm talking to my friend, scanning the car, when I notice that she looks around, and proceeds to lick the stick before putting it back in the tube!
A guess when you eat a meal of napkins, you need a fitting dessert.
that is so freaking GROSS!
Posted by: Toya | May 31, 2005 at 01:16 AM
Is there some sort of nutritional value to napkins and lipstick that the rest of us don't know about?
Posted by: Margaret | May 31, 2005 at 09:18 AM
i've heard of models eating kleenex to help them feel full
Posted by: Xan | May 31, 2005 at 12:25 PM
I had to chew a piece of napkin once in a skit we did in Cub Scouts -- I was playing a red skin, ignorant of the white man's ways. (We did NOT write the script, just acted it out.)
Sad part is, this was in the early 1980s, not the 1880s....
Posted by: Steve | May 31, 2005 at 01:06 PM
Perhaps the napkin lady needed to be more "regular"?
Posted by: MB | May 31, 2005 at 02:47 PM
I have heard of this many years before. A mental disorder called "pica" (just like the type font term).
It can be very serious. Years ago, I read that a young girl died from sodium poinonig after consuming entire containers of table salt without her parent's knowledge. Weird, but very sad.
A pattern of eating non-nutritive substances, lasting for at least a month, Such substances as dirt, paper etc. The main characteristics are:
* For at least 1 month the person persists in eating dirt or other nonnutritive substances.
* This behavior is not appropriate to the person's developmental level.
* It is not sanctioned in the person's culture.
* If this behavior occurs solely in the context of another mental disorder (such as Mental Retardation, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizophrenia), it is serious enough to require independent clinical attention.
Posted by: dan | July 06, 2005 at 03:20 PM