It’s common courtesy among hikers to hang found keys, gloves, or other personal items on an eye-level branch in case their rightful owner comes back looking for them. But when the found item is an infant’s pacifier, isn’t it a bit gross to think Mom or Dad would stick a gritty, grimy binky back in Baby’s mouth?
- This is my day-late contribution to yesterday’s Photo Friday theme, Gross.
Hoarded Ordinaries 
Nov 12, 2006 at 8:06 am
I can actually just imagine sone of the more experieced parents saying ‘Eh, wash it off and give it to ’em.’
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Nov 12, 2006 at 8:23 am
Yeah, I suppose my squeamishness could be based in not having kids. It’s not like kids don’t put dirty, disgusting things in their mouths anyway! But in an era when my child-bearing peers use antiseptic wipes on nearly everything, I can imagine a pacifier found on a horse-poop sprinkled bridle-path would be particularly icky.
Maybe I should get some of those antiseptic wipes! 🙂
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Nov 12, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Luckily, pacifiers are able to withstand a disinfecting boil.
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Nov 12, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Lol. My little sister was completely fixated with one single pacifier (we call them dummies here). She had it so long that there was just a ring of ragged rubber left where the teat had long disintegrated.
I remember my father coming home a different route from work every evening for weeks – buying the whole range from yet another supermarket / pharmacy / department store – desperately trying to find one that she would accept in it’s place, but she never did.
I have no idea how she managed to keep the thing in her mouth, but I do remember that during the process of trying to slip her a doppleganger my mother tried all sorts of things – like letting it roll around in her handbag for a few days … but to no avail.
Perhaps the person who hung this pacifier on the tree had had a similar experience?
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Nov 12, 2006 at 4:24 pm
This striking juxtaposition of the garish and the natural is art!
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Nov 12, 2006 at 9:20 pm
As the mother of two girls, I distinctly remember keeping the pacifier very clean – for the first-born. By the time the second one came along, it was more of a “Okay. Let’s rinse it off and you’re good to go now.”
🙂
They have both grown into very healthy young girls (at nearly 11 and 9 yrs old).
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Nov 13, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Good clean mud? After you’ve retrieved them from the garbage and the toilet, your standards change a bit 🙂
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Nov 13, 2006 at 6:25 pm
wonderful photo, btw!
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Nov 18, 2006 at 3:39 pm
that is hilarious!!!
The perspective on the shot is such that initially I thought it was a HUGE pacifier!
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