Who knew? Apparently, every office has at least one person with an insatiable need to spread the contents of their nose on the wall.
From Florida:
From Georgia:
From a hospital (!) in Washington, D.C.
And another hospital in Pennsylvania:
From Utah:
![Attention Everyone: No slobs on this floor. Don't wipe your damn bugers [sic] on the wall!!!!!!!](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2486788133_b939379863_o.jpg "Attention Everyone: No slobs on this floor. Don't wipe your damn bugers [sic] on the wall!!!!!!!")
From Montana:
From California:
from Minnesota:
from Texas:
from Ohio:
And even in Denmark:
[Submitter Latrine’s rough translation: Won’t you be kind and wipe your boogers off in a piece of toilet paper instead of on the walls/kind regards the janitor]
related: Wait, what was the first reason again?
142 responses so far ↓
#1
Mister Hand
It’s interesting how they all assume they are using their fingers to wipe the buggers…
Aug 11, 2009 at 8:30 pm rating: 90
#2
situational lefty
The Abercrombie and Fitch sign might be a little too sophisticated to get it’s point across effectively, considering the people who shop there. It uses some awful big words.
Aug 11, 2009 at 8:31 pm rating: 90
#3
Samantha
WOW I can’t believe there are so many varieties of that sign. I didn’t realize that wiping boogers on the wall was something people even did.
Aug 11, 2009 at 8:38 pm rating: 90
#4
Wordtinker doesnt smith
I love humanity. It’s boogers I can’t stand.
Aug 11, 2009 at 8:54 pm rating: 90
#5
ClearlyDemented
Don’t these people know that no one can prove you’re a nose-picker if you eat the evidence?
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:03 pm rating: 90
#6
Michelle
It’s an epidemic!
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:13 pm rating: 90
#7
KatieMB
Tsk, tsk. Isn’t it sad how many people have forgotten the simple “Use a kleenex when removing things from your nose” lesson? It was right after the “Don’t take things from a communal fridge that have someone else’s name on it” lesson, and right before “Don’t diss your boss on FB” lesson.
What a shame, all these forgotten lessons.
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:13 pm rating: 90
#8
T
OMG. Vomit. The pictures of the actual boogers were not necessary. Speaking of boogers, in 4th grade this kid named Harlan that sat next to me used to pick his nose with a straw and blow the other end of the straw so the snot shot onto my skirt. Mmm, delicious.
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:47 pm rating: 90
#9
drybamboo
BOOGERS. I’ve seen the word too many times in this post, and now I somehow think that it is one strange word. Like FORK. You look at it long enough and wonder who the heck thought of the word FORK? And why the hell is it spelled that way? FORK. BOOGERS. F-O-R-K. B-O-O-G-E-R-S.
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:47 pm rating: 90
#10
much to my chagrin
Perhaps it’s the same person–some sort of serial booger-wiper–leaving his or her boogers on bathroom walls across the world.
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:49 pm rating: 90
#11
C.S. Harmonikah
gotta love any PA note that makes a Dukes of Hazard reference.
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:56 pm rating: 90
#12
C.S. Harmonikah
Toilet paper not good for holding up the ceiling? since when?
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:02 pm rating: 90
#13
Eva
Ok, this is probably the first time a picture on this site actually made me vomit a little in my mouth. That third pic is simply nasty. Damn.
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:17 pm rating: 90
#14
bean
The only thing more disturbing than the numerous submissions was the frequent photographic evidence supplied. Totally unnecessary before dinnertime.
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:27 pm rating: 90
#15
Canthz_B
Booger-painting at the urinal?
I’ve always found using the urinal to be a satisfying enough reason to go to the lavatory.
I never even considered it as a potential cultural arts center!
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:31 pm rating: 90
#16
kp
Wow. Didn’t realize this was an epidemic that spread past the office I work at.
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:37 pm rating: 90
#17
ClearlyDemented
Suddenly, every booger in my body is screaming to be let out.
*squirming with the torture of resisting the urge until I get to the office tomorrow*
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 pm rating: 90
#18
noah
i can’t believe somebody used “n.b.” on an anti-booger sign.
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:56 pm rating: 90
#19
dorkahontas
Is it just me, or does it look like in photo two someone felt compelled to single Everett out as the alleged booger-picker?
Dear Everett,
NICE GOING PUTTING GROSSNESS ON THE WALL EARLIER!!!!!!
Sincerely,
Dorky
Aug 11, 2009 at 10:57 pm rating: 90
#20
Philly
So, okay, I shouldn’t cop to this….but I used to stick my boogers on the wall. Here’s why.
The bathroom, at my college, was filthy. There was always at least one live, large roach, and several dead ones. There were little shit smears under the tp dispenser. There was standing water on the floor. For three months there was a little family of distinctive moth-flies that I never saw anywhere but the bathroom.
So I stuck the first booger on the wall to see how long it would last. Seriously, it was there for months. I wondered if anyone had noticed. So I added another and another, a little family of sickly fascinating snots. They were still there when I graduated, and, odds on, they are still there today. And, yes, everyone still uses the filthy bathroom.
It never would have occured to me to paint the walls green if they hadn’t been covered in hazmat already–makes me wonder what condition these BRs were in.
Aug 11, 2009 at 11:31 pm rating: 90
#21
Canthz_B
“KNOCK IT OFF. USE SOME TISSUE.”?
Let’s maybe go with: “SCRAPE IT OFF. USE A CREDIT CARD.”
Aug 11, 2009 at 11:40 pm rating: 90
#22
dorkahontas
Wasn’t Boogermeister Meisterbooger the mean mayor in “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”?
Aug 11, 2009 at 11:46 pm rating: 90
#23
Watchtower
Clearly this issue takes higher priority in society than I originally thought. (In your face, environment!)
I love how there is nothing passive about the sixth note. “You are a bad person…”
Too much
Aug 11, 2009 at 11:56 pm rating: 90
#24
Bob Loblaw
Those boogers were fucking delicious …..
Aug 12, 2009 at 12:33 am rating: 90
#25
leftfoot
You can pick your friends..
And you can pick your nose..
But you can’t pick your friend’s nose and wipe it on the wall.
Aug 12, 2009 at 12:41 am rating: 90
#26
mollymouse
Alright, the picture with the actual snot was disgusting. Thank goodness I don’t have a weak gag reflex…
Aug 12, 2009 at 3:00 am rating: 90
#27
Susan
wiping boogers on walls? Who knew?
Aug 12, 2009 at 3:44 am rating: 90
#28
Jonas
Terrible Danish grammar…
Aug 12, 2009 at 4:45 am rating: 90
#29
Moster Mysko
Eww.
My daughter used to wipe boogers onto the tv-screen. When she was three. (I still haven’t convinced her to choose tissue over her clothes, but at least it’s her own clothes)
Aug 12, 2009 at 5:22 am rating: 90
#30
GK
*wipes a booger on the comment thread*
¤
Aug 12, 2009 at 5:36 am rating: 90
#31
drybamboo
Anyone get the urge to play Connect the Dots with the boogers shown in the images?
…
Yeah, me neither.
Aug 12, 2009 at 5:46 am rating: 90
#32
A
Small boogers go on the toilet seat, large boogers go in the exercise club shower.
C’mon people, is it really that hard to remember?
Aug 12, 2009 at 5:58 am rating: 90
#33
feather
omg I partially threw up
Aug 12, 2009 at 6:38 am rating: 90
#34
aaa
People wiping boog on the wall in a bathroom is especially baffling because bathrooms presumably have both toilet paper and paper towels (and sometimes even Kleenex) with which to properly dispose of boog. Hell, even doing the gym teacher Kleenex (holding one nostril and blowing) into the toilet or trash can would be more sanitary than using your fingers to remove the boog from their nose and put it on the wall. Maybe the boog-painters figure they can wash their hands when they’re done leaving their presents for the next person who comes in the crapper.
P.S.
Just for fun, genericized trademarks.
Aug 12, 2009 at 8:46 am rating: 90
#35
T imo®
Du bedes sætte din næse klumper i dine lommer eller vil jeg sætte dit snot kassen på bagsiden af dit hoved.
Meget kærlighed,
Timo
Aug 12, 2009 at 9:38 am rating: 90
#36
Winona
My 3-year-old wipes her boogers on her bedroom wall by her bed or on the car door – but she’s THREE YEARS OLD. I expect it (but am still grossed out).
Aug 12, 2009 at 10:28 am rating: 90
#37
oi!
I am disgusted.
Aug 12, 2009 at 10:48 am rating: 90
#38
RoxyBlue
What the hell???!!!! Why? Just, why?
Aug 12, 2009 at 11:03 am rating: 90
#39
shwonline
Toilet Paper
Good For:
- Wiping your ass
- Wiping the seat
- Wiping your glasses
- Wiping your boogers
Good god, I hope that’s not all with the same piece of toilet paper.
Aug 12, 2009 at 11:30 am rating: 90
#40
Kate
What is wrong with these people?
Don’t they have mouths?
Aug 12, 2009 at 11:33 am rating: 90
#41
Belinda
Can someone please give me the site where you can get cool elephant-with-its-trunk-in-a-knot clipart!
Aug 12, 2009 at 11:42 am rating: 90
#42
Gretal
I had to stop reading halfway down because the booger stories were making me a little nauseated. I guess that when it comes to booger-eating I am not as tough as I thought I was (shudder).
Aug 12, 2009 at 11:50 am rating: 90
#43
Horriblelicenseplates
Gah! The boogers! They are everywhere!!!
Aug 12, 2009 at 12:24 pm rating: 90
#44
FredGarvin
Point of order: toilet paper should NOT be used for wiping your glasses.
Sincerely,
Your Optician
Aug 12, 2009 at 12:24 pm rating: 90
#45
Azz
I used to have a co-worker who didn’t even do us the courtesy of using the bathroom — he wiped boogers on his cubicle walls. He really had no excuse, as the company provided boxes of tissues.
He was fired because he did a crappy job, not because of the booger thing.
Aug 12, 2009 at 1:04 pm rating: 90
#46
T imo®
“Boogermann McPickerstein sez always wipe your nose nuggets under your desk not the bathroom wall.
Make a game of it. See how large a mound of sinus sausages you can build under there. Then one day you can pop that baby in your mouth and reconstitute it on the commute home.”
Aug 12, 2009 at 1:11 pm rating: 90
#47
pants go brown
how long til we get signage axing the guys to stop jerking off in the crapper?
Aug 12, 2009 at 1:16 pm rating: 90
#48
Cameron
I didn’t realize that the booger problem was so widespread.
Aug 12, 2009 at 2:03 pm rating: 90
#49
Canthz_B
Seems to me that everyone in these workplaces is a bit too nosey.
Aug 12, 2009 at 2:06 pm rating: 90
#50
Amanda
WTF? can these people be helped? who knew wiping boogers all over the place was such a rampant activity… ewww
Aug 12, 2009 at 5:08 pm rating: 90
#51
kelly
I worked in an office (in Sydney) where people did this – I never thought it was possible that it happened elsewhere – and now I see it does…all over the world…
Aug 12, 2009 at 10:28 pm rating: 90
#52
no wonder you're single
wow there are a lot of booger wipers out there!
Aug 13, 2009 at 1:34 am rating: 90
#53
Harpdevil
We had someone that did that at my old job, always on the same wall, and we knew precisely who it was. I think they even knew we knew, and just carried on.
If you think that is bad, back in school all the boys were taken out of class and for a boys-only assembly, where we were told someone had been wiping their shit all over the bathroom walls! We never did discover who the phantom crapper was.
Aug 13, 2009 at 3:53 am rating: 90
#54
T.OC
My favorites are the classy looking Abercrombie & Fitch sign and the one from Minnesota with the elephant that has its nose knotted.
Pretty disgusting to just wipe your nose on the wall, like everyone else wants to see that, and they’ll just magically disappear after a while.
Aug 13, 2009 at 8:39 am rating: 90
#55
Dott
That Danish janitor has really bad grammar. Ouch.
Aug 13, 2009 at 10:31 am rating: 90
#56
herbette
had to stop reading the comments, it was lunchtime, commence gagging…
Aug 13, 2009 at 12:31 pm rating: 90
#57
anaceofkidneys
My junior high was in the same building as a kindergarten and we had to use the same bathroom. It was about the size of your average reach-in closet, but with a wee little child-size toilet in it. The wall was about six inches from your face when you sat on the toilet, and COVERED in boogers, right at eye level for a squatting eighth grader (or standing kindergartner). Many times they were still glistening and I’d have to turn around and retch when I was done peeing.
But until now I never knew ADULTS put their boogers on the walls. That’s just… wow. All I can think of is Stimpy and his Magic Nose Goblins.
Aug 13, 2009 at 12:51 pm rating: 90
#58
MAMARILLA2
Dude, you could go surfing on all the waves of nausea this post has created.
Aug 13, 2009 at 1:10 pm rating: 90
#59
TP
Some people have called the Swine Flu an epidemic.
It appears that wall boogers are far more common than we all thought and requires immediate attention.
Time to formulate a special paint that won’t allow the chemistry of boogers to affix itself to the walls.
I put YOU in charge!
(yes, you – get your fingers out of your nose)
Aug 13, 2009 at 5:23 pm rating: 90
#60
Guy Smiley
And while you’re at it, stop using office paper to write notes about boogers…or bugers even.
Aug 13, 2009 at 5:46 pm rating: 90
#61
mandy_Reeves
omg……just the talk of eating them…made me nauseaous
I used to work for a telemarketing company….and the ladies room ALWAYS had boogys on the stall!…that and bloody pads…and these same scumbags would touch the sinks, the vending machines and go and get all loud if they spied someone with a little ketchup on their lip or collar…and call them dirty and nasty. oh and do not get me started about the poop on the wall! OSHA came and fined the place…but guess who got fired for reporting the filth hole I worked in…you guessed it!
Aug 14, 2009 at 12:40 am rating: 90
#62
bumchin
i used to clean office loos and overall the women’s were so much worse than the men’s. goes against popular belief, but the men didn’t put bloody pads and tampax on the toilet lid, in the loo brush holder, behind the u-bend or on the floor, didn’t wipe shit on the walls and didn’t flush tights or socks down the loo. and i never had to break up a monster turd in the men’s loos. however, the corona of bogies around the urinals in the (executive) offices was a particular horror of mine.
now i work in a rather cleaner, more pleasant job in health care. a couple of weeks ago i was treating a small child who took off her sock and blew her nose on her foot. yes. both me and her mother were a little stunned at that particular choice. oh, to be 3 again…
Aug 15, 2009 at 8:23 pm rating: 90
#63
nemo
have u ever discovered boogers in your bread ? U will know you have chewed one when you get that extra salty taste. Remember that you are in fact chewing someone else’s boogers….
Aug 17, 2009 at 9:29 am rating: 90
#64
wiesoauchimmer
sorry if i am mistaken, but isn’t the last note norwegian? i realise that danish and norwegian are very close, but the notes contains a) all three special norwegian letters and b) several words i recognize from the norwegian course i took several years ago…
Sep 2, 2009 at 5:15 am rating: 90
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Sep 15, 2009 at 8:16 pm rating: 90
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Sep 15, 2009 at 8:16 pm rating: 90
#67
qualityleashdog
I worked for a manufacturing plant in central Indiana, we made food for a large grocery that in turned owned alot of other large and small groceries nationwide, and our products were distributed nationwide. Arbitrary sanitation rules were often implemented, but we still had our booger wipers in the stalls. The plant’s painter had the job of painting the bathroom one day, of course all the boogers were just painted over…making them more everlasting than the baby shoes your mom had bronzed for you.
Sep 16, 2009 at 2:16 am rating: 90
#68
Christina
That foreign language one is in Danish and having lived in Denmark for almost 9 years I can tell that by the color of those walls it is most likely a hospital or a community center of some kind. Nice. Danes are generally very clean though.
Sep 21, 2009 at 4:13 pm rating: 90
#69
Spencer
Did anybody else notice the proofreading on the sign from Utah? Hilarious.
Sep 28, 2009 at 11:28 am rating: 90
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