I firmly do NOT believe in the three second rule… especially when it comes to the kids.
In fact, it’s more like the micro-sub-second rule.
I don’t care if it’s one of my homemade chocolate truffles or a hard candy.
You see, once the food hits the kitchen floor, it legally belongs to the dog. It’s a transfer of ownership. It does not belong to my kids anymore nor especially my granddaughter if she comes.
If the dog is not present, the food gets wasted. It goes into the trash can. Tough luck, dog.
You see, I think the floor is smothered with yukkies – like dust, microbes, viruses, insect do-do and of course, dog saliva from previous ownership transfers. I can’t imagine allowing those yukkies getting into young mouths. I, too, don’t eat things that fall on the kitchen floor for exactly the same reasons.
Disgusting.
However, an entirely different rule applies to me when I’m outside.
If I drop my cigar – onto the sidewalk where crows do their dastardly deeds or onto a parking lot spotted in days-old engine oil or on the grass where dogs freely mark their territory – the three second rule DOES apply.
In fact, it might as well be a three MINUTE rule. The cigar can rest on the dirt for a few minutes, even like when I’m doing macro photography.
But…unlike the mundane food, the cigar will not get thrown away. I will not waste it. The dog will definitely not get it.
It will go back into my mouth. I will not give the bacteria from the crow do-do or the grit from used engine oil or fermented dog pee on the lawn a second thought.
You see, it isn’t food. That’s why I can pick up the cigar and put it back in my mouth.
Do you see the logic?
Masako and Spam Musubi 
You’re gross.
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Not really, although I do think that we all run a little too scared of germs. The three second rule is a good way to build up your germ immunity, although we don’t have a dog, so that is not an issue.
Well, I no longer have a dog either. I do miss the natural garbage disposer! And for what it’s worth, I would believe Churchill had the great same logic! LOL! ☺
I see that this is your logic. That’s all I’m saying…. 😉
Are you saying it’s…flawed?? 😈
Uhmmmm…..
Hmmpphh!! 😉
Makes perfect sense to me.
Not to worry, sir. When you and Chatter Master make it here, your desserts shall be most sanitary! 😆
Everybody needs a philosophy to guide them through life.
You are also a logical man, Ed! 😉
I fully understand. Mine used to be with cigarettes up until 6 months ago!!
WOW! You stopped cigarettes half a year ago!! AWESOME!!! 😃
Ha, ha….you’re anti-floorpepper!
Well, at least I don’t stomp on our flag and still want to live here! LOL! Are sending me to GITMO, Doc?
No way! You’re firmly in the patriot-friend camp.
I’ll tell you something that will make you shiver. When my youngest was a toddler I found him chewing something and pulled it out of his mouth. It was a big piece of hot dog. We hadn’t had hot dogs in a few days so I was confused. I asked him where he got it and he pointed under the couch. Apparently, he had thrown it from his high chair days before and he’d watched it roll under there. When he got hungry, he went and retrieved it! Ah……horrible!!
Ah!!! Vienna Sausages a la mode… I mean, MOLD! LOL Great story! ☺
Makes perfect sense to me. i will do the same, place my cigar on the ground, grass, curb, sidewalk, railway track etc while I frame up a shot. No foul, no harm.
We great minded people think the same, Franky!! Didn’t we drop them a couple of times when we smoked?! LOL
I am with you brother…
ps I know only of one man who calls me “brother”…. Hmmmm….
Well of course. The heat from a lit cigar kills any germs! ;-D!
Great minds think alike, Russ!
A recent study proved that the three (or five second rule depending on your pout of view) is a myth. Germs don’t pounce on a piece of food or other item dropped and that it is ‘safe’ to eat. Of course if it’s heavily soiled, you’d be mad to consume it, but I do believe that we are becoming a world of ‘softies’ destined to be consumed ourselves by superbugs developed by our own fears and obsessive cleanliness. As for the cigar isn’t that a bigger health risk in itself. A whole can of (dirty) worms opened now! 🙂
I 100% agree the US is becoming a land of over-sanitized softies. 75 yrs ago, folks survived before penicilin. Now we have super bugs hand sanitizers at supermarkets. Anyways, this story was an attempt at humor – one that cigar lovers would say “me too”! 😁
I certainly agree, even not being a smoker I can see the funny side and do a similar thing myself. A highly amusing post that many of us can relate to. 🙂
I certainly feel for our guys – especially POWs – on the ground during WWII scrounging for things to eat…
That’s funny!
Is that you from MO, dude??
haha! loved that, koji!
Charly?