Boogers, mucus, and more (oh my)

On Monday after preschool, CJ and I spent the afternoon at the Pacific Science Center. Currently they’re featuring the Grossology exhibit (the impolite science of the human body). One of the features of this exhibit is that there are little squiggly signs hanging here and there with bits of gross trivia that you never knew you wanted to know, like this one:

If an object gets stuck in the nose, it may eventually be covered in a crust of calcium. The largest calcium mass ever removed from a nose was the size of a chicken’s egg.

Can you imagine?? I’ve seen some big boogers in my day, but a chicken egg? That’s not something you’re going to discreetly pick and wipe…

Then there was this little gem:

In some cultures, it is normal for mothers to suck and spit the snot from their baby’s nose.

No matter how much I do for my child, there’s always some mother out there who does more. And as much as I want to be a good mother, this whole “mommy as snot-vacuum” concept does NOT compute.

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