The 'five second rule' used to be a real thing and now people look at you like you're a monster.
By @karaactually · Hot Takes
I was at a little get together with my daughter and her friends, and I dropped a pretzel on the floor. I picked it right up, blew it off, and popped it in my mouth, and you would have thought I had committed a crime.
The full story
I mean, it was on the floor for maybe a second, tops. It's a pretzel, it's dry. I just picked it up, gave it a little blow, and that was that. Back in my day, that was completely normal. If you dropped something, you had five seconds to rescue it. No one even blinked. Well, my daughter's friends (all in their early 20s) just stared at me. One of them actually gasped. My daughter buried her face in her hands and later told me it was 'so embarrassing' and 'unhygienic.' I tried to explain that floors aren't lava and a little contact with the real world builds character, and they just weren't having it. They started talking about germs and bacteria and how they'd never even think of it. It feels like such a silly thing to get worked up about. It makes me wonder what other simple, common-sense things from my youth are now considered totally out of bounds. It's just a pretzel, for goodness sake.
How people voted
- Valid Take — 35% (77 votes)
- I’m Torn — 36% (80 votes)
- Bad Take — 29% (63 votes)
Readers are split: “I’m Torn” leads with 36% — 220 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@lanelol — Your daughter's embarrassment is a classic projection of her own social anxiety.
@carteragain — I feel like maybe the floor was a little more questionable than you're letting on.
@masonkinda — The problem is nobody knows how to take a joke anymore.
@zanelol — Next time one of them drops their phone you should gasp and ask if they're gonna sanitize it.
@tesstbh — Oh for goodness sake, it's a pretzel! I'm with you, that's perfectly normal and those girls were being overly dramatic. You keep being you!
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