Cut Men and Waitresses

I was at the fight tonight (Emelianenko vs Arlovski), and was once again noticing one of the things that weirds me out.  The fight was great.  If you didn't see it you should learn about it from some place other than my blog.  I can get past the sweaty man-on-man action without a problem.  What gets me is that when the fighters retreat to their corners their cut men reach in and pull out the mouth guard -- barehanded!  Does this seem gross to anyone else?  I've seen it a lot.  It won't ever seem normal.  

I haven't worn a mouth guard in years, but have had someone recently handle my saliva tainted refuse.  I was eating at a pretty nice restaurant with some friends a few weeks back, and our first appetizer was some Spanish olives.  There was a plate full of olives, and as everyone was discarding their olive pits to the edge of the table to keep them from mingling with uneaten olives.  After the olives are gone, a waitress is walking by--not our waitress--and just grabs all the olive pits up in her bare hand and keeps walking!  I ask you again--does this seem gross to anyone else?  Now before you go making assumptions, this waitress was really good looking.  I would maybe expect such a swipe from some dirty waitress at some greasy spoon, but I was completely caught off guard.  I've seen such behaviour from mothers with their children, but this girl did not appear to be anyone's mother.  It's bad enough when they take your plates and their thumbs go into some food left on the edge of the plate.  Far worse when the food has clearly been in ones mouth.  

That's all I've got for tonight.