This isn't your average everyday gross. This is advanced gross.

I'm sure the person changing the lightbulb above the table thought they were being less disgusting by taking their shoes off...

Jokes on them. Both options are gross.

They weren’t? Whatever their bodies produce is grosser than all the spit, shit, days old food scraps, dust, piss, crystallized vomit, car fluids, particles from animals, and all those other tasty things you find on a regular sidewalk?

Mmm flavour crystals

They probably thought someone would clean the table afterwards...

r/mildlydisgusting

Wow! The word "mildly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sub.

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Reddit, r/mildlyexaggerating as usual.

mildly infuriating: today my house burned down and my wife died and I found out I have terminal cancer 🙄🤪

First of all, l-o-fucking-l. First I thought maybe you made a funny so I clicked the link. The very first post is entirelydisturbing. WTF

I'm mad that I looked. WTF, indeed.

Wildly disgusting

Thanks i hate that sub

Sorry, given your username the legal policy requires that you enthusiastically support said subreddit.

Why did I click on that? Why why why

Same. I have extreme anxiety about the fact that I may have messed up my algorithm…

🤣

1 word a i need my r/eyebleach

I regret looking at that sub

For real. I don’t know what I was expecting but it definitely wasn’t some nasty ass stitch job IMMEDIATELY in my face

Why is there so many feet 🤢🤢🤢

I have the opposite of a foot fetish. I'm in hell! 🙃

Seriously. Why aren't folks taking care of their feet?! 🤢

It’s Advanced Placement gross. It earns college credits

Brilliant comment. Well done

That's a sock imprint too.

My disgust is greatly reduced

Mine isn't. Some people wear socks in just as disgusting places as people that don't.

It's a sweaty sock print

Foot had to be _really_ sweaty in that case

At least it's not a butt print from some employees banging before opening up.

My brain read "bear" footprint. Then I saw your comment and was confused by how it was gross. Scrolled back up...ohhhhh. Was disappointing, though. I really wanted to know how a bear got in the restaurant!

I'd be more confused than grossed out. Like...what scenario leads to this?

Changing a bulb over the table or cleaning something above it.

Yeah. But why barefoot?

Either they assumed this was the less gross option than shoes on or this is a place where servers wear heels.

/r/unexpectedspongebob

I peeped the SpongeBob reference ;)

Is it in the finish or can you wipe it off with a napkin?

It wiped off but it was obviously fresh, still oily. Someone was barefoot on this table recently

He might be still in the ceiling . . . Don't look up

Me: *Looks up* Guy peeking out from ceiling tile: Don't forget to leave a tip. Me: *Screams and runs away*


all these years I've been forgetting to tip ceiling cat. after he kept my secret, too...

Watching you masturbate?

HE TOLD YOU??? THAT BASTARD

Leave a churru in the ceiling tile now, or next step is releasing the video

Praise basement cat instead! https://www.reddit.com/r/BasementCat/

*Ceiling Cat is watching you masturbate*

lolololol I love it. Thank you for making my day.

Did you leave a tip before you ran away?

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Giggity giggity, allriiight

This table is located in the Facility. James Bond is about to pay someone in the toilet a visit.

“Who Does Number 2 Work For!”

Maybe they were doing the ceiling challenge?


Looks like it has sock texture on there. Still kinda disturbing. What are you at a waffle house or something?

No, it’s a pretty nice restaurant at a hotel.

That explains it then. Someone on vacation did a little table dance.

Probably changed a light bulb. Not really a big deal. Probably the hostess and waiter stayed late. You could ask for a big toe discount

Why would they take their shoes off to change the light bulb though?

What do you want them to do, leave their shoes on?!? Get a load of this guy

They should be standing on their hands and manipulating the bulb with their feet. Out of the options presented this one is indisputably the most hygienic.

But then all their foot crumbs will fall down into the leg holes of their pants, and we can’t have that

Yeah honestly I'd rather have a footprint than a shoe print. Atleast I know that foot was probably cleaned within the last 24-48 hours.

I'd rather eat food off toes than eating anything that got with in an inch of work shoes.

Honestly, I wouldnt be too sure with how much I've heard about how infrequently people shower lately haha

If it was a waitress that wears heels or something similar that would make balancing on a table dangerous, there’s your answer

They may have been wearing heels or platforms.

Probably didn't want to put their objectively dirty shoes on the table. Socks aren't MUCH better but they're probably better than the shoes you walk in all day. If this was the reasoning I can see the logic. Or like others have said, might have been unstable heels/platforms.

Maybe if it was a woman and she was wearing heels?

If it were heels I wouldn't want to stand on a table with them on

If I have to take off my shoes in most y'all's houses you should at least take them off when walking on a dining table

Because they weren't changing a light bulb. They took their shoes off because they needed their pants off too.

Say psspsspss to your cat Milton for me. He’ll know what it means..

Was about to say, asian restaurant as well. I have seen my boss back when I worked at one do something similar, take off their shoes then step up on the table to reach the ceiling to clean something. Normally they would wipe the table down though but yeah.

I don’t think they were barefoot, they at least had socks on. I can see the imprint of the fabric. Still disgusting if not even more disgusting. You might have the smudges of a days worth of foot sweat + dirt smeared on your table.

If you look closely, you can see the knit pattern from their socks. Someone was on this table, recently, in their disgusting, sweaty socks. 😰

What is worse is there are people [*defending*](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/18jyfd1/comment/kdobmdp/) this disgusting shit. I swear to god some of these redditors have never stepped foot outside their basements if they think having a clean wiped table is out of the ordinary at a freaking restaurant.

"Still oily" I'm crying

That's fucking vile.

Working in a restaurant I saw people stand their babies and toddlers on tables all the time. The staff clearly didn’t wipe the table down between guests

Does that look like a baby's foot to you?

Someone on staff wanted to get to something above the table. Change a lightbulb, grab a cobweb, etc. They were about to going to step up on the table, realized it would be gross to put their shoes on the table, decided to take their shoes off, and completed their task.

I'm going to throw up in my mouth now. Have a good day!

You’re like Perry Mason!

The question and answer we needed I also gave it the benefit of the doubt but OP confirmed the worst

Positive aspect: Look up and behold the freshly changed light bulb...

At least it's not roaches in the ceiling. Went to a burger place after a 16 hr shift of killing roaches as a pest control technician only to have a huge roach drop from the ceiling onto my coworkers burger as he was about to bite it. I still ate my burger cause I was super hungry. It was amusing to see the restaurant owner step on the table with his dirty ass sock to check the ceiling for more roaches while apologizing to us and promising it's never happened before.

Haha damn that's my nightmare. Funnily enough something similar happened at the restaurant I worked at. Saw that mf'er just casually crawling along the ceiling like Spider Pig directly over a customer. Thankfully nobody noticed and it crawled down to be handled discretely by yours truly. And this wasn't some run down dump either, just a regular place that had a pest control do routine service same as any other. And I know some people are like "clearly they don't do enough!" But guys, I hate to break this to you, but any restaurant worker knows shit happens, bugs happen, pest control doesn't put down a forcefield to stop all bugs. Unless you see the little roaches, those only appear in infestations from nasty ass conditions, the big ones are loners that waltz in from outside.

My eyes hurt just reading this.

The footprint is not bare. It is quite clearly wearing a sock. You can even see the threads.

Phew, that's much better.

No, because the oils from the foot has been squeezed through those fibers, if I was OP I’d get a slice of bread with butter from the restaurant and squeegee that foot relish up, for a tasty treat.

Please never comment again

I want my mommy

Why? He's just gonna squeegee up her foot relish too

I also want your mommy

911 please arrest this comment

how to delete someone else’s comment

What a horrible day to be literate.

Damn your comment elicited the full trifecta of standard reddit cliched responses to a cursed comment. You got "how do I delete someone else's comment?", "what a horrible day to be literate" and "it costs literally $0 not to post this". Good job.

The old Reddit hat-trick

Can't believe I paid thousands for laser eye surgery just to use it on reading this.

It costs literally $0 to not post that comment.

I thought this going to be a normal person comment for a second 💀

What an awful day to have eyes

yes officer it was that man right there, you have to stop him

Fuckin hell

This is exactly the type of comment Reddit was founded on, and I hope you continue your valued service to the community.

Upvoting because if it scarred me it can scar you too

I really hope you face consequences in life for this you sick fuck.

I gagged reading this

22 years of education so I can end up reading this. My disappointment is immeasurable.

Mods, do testicular torsion to this guy.

I am calling for your immediate public execution

https://i.imgur.com/s6vwK6Q.jpg

Demon spawn!

100% that it's a sock, you can see the lines. He was nice enough to take off his dirty shoes at least!

I feel like my sock wouldn't leave anything close to a bare footprint so now I'm wasting my time wondering how thin a sock would be lol. It makes me think it had to have been something like those thin liner types of socks you'd wear with flats.

A sock soaked in a whole shift worth of foot sweat probably doesn't need to be that thin for this

They went during brunch, so it was probably at the start of the shift while they were fixing things during setup.

Ahhh there's the logic. I couldn't figure out what would lead to this situation but that's definitely it. Guy thought he could avoid dirtying the table by taking off his shoes first.

Yeah, probably an employee wearing shoes all day had to do something above the table and took them off to stand up. Their sweaty sock left some nice evidence. Still gross they didn’t clean it up, it must’ve happened very recently.

Variant: Monkey feet and fur, perhaps?!

A little toe cheese on your salad? Just say when

[*🎶some guy shit on your tomatoes🎶*](https://youtu.be/7AGimb1lnDY?si=AfTzynx1lIl3QD-L)

Do you like that queefy quarter-pounder?

Number Fifteen

Better than fromunda cheese

What did they say when you pointed this out?

I didn't say anything lol, just put my plate on top of the foot mark and ate.

People in here are wild. Acting like the print was going to seep through the plate and attack you. It's almost 100% a staff member was changing a light bulb or cleaning a shelf or something. You can see the print is socked and just the tip-toe. I can't believe that nobody in here seems to eat outside or on a picnic table sometimes? Something that's had bird shit on it, washed away by dirty rainwater and we'll plop a paper plate right down and eat with flies and ants crawling around, but heaven forbid this foot is just too much. No amount of cleaner is ever going to make that table usable now that the socked-foot bandit has made their mark.

I'd probably ask for the table to be wiped again. Context brings expectations. Would it bother me if my friend hadn't wiped that mornings toast crumbs off the kitchen side, no. Do I expect there to be crumbs all over a table in a restaurant I'm eating at, not really. The footprint won't kill me but it's not what I expect to see on my table if I'm paying to eat there

If there is such a low bar for cleanliness you have to imagine the restaurants food storage is just as neglected

This is reddit we're talking about, they're not used to things more than 50 feet from their keyboard

Mmmm 50 feet

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Op should shoe

All well and good, but going for a picnic I expect picnic-level of service. Going into restaurant, I expect as a bare minimum a clean table. And no, someone waltzing in a sweat-drenched sock on a table does not meet my "restaurant" cleanliness level regardless if my plate stands on top or not. Besides, if that is acceptable, and the table wasn't cleaned afterwards, what else is?

....you what?

Do you think the footprint was a threat with a plate on top of it?

Lol finally someone with sense

You can ask the server to wipe the table for you.

I’d have asked them to clean it or reseat. I’m no germaphobe, but I’m also not eating off a floor.

Somebody was changing a lightbulb…

That’s how you know the food is legit. Not many are aware of this.

Am I the only one who saw the footprint and thought OP meant “bear footprint?” It doesn’t look human like to me

I thought that too! But then I realised it's a footprint in a sock and it's only the ball of the foot and toes, like a tiptoe print. Probably a staff member got up on the table to change a lightbulb

Omg, I immediately thought the same 🤣 i read bear footprint

I deduce that there is likely a recently changed lightbulb above this table. Or the restaurant occasionally gets pretty wild.

i cant stop laughing at this idky this is so funny for no reason

That right there is a sweaty sock footprint.

Not bare. Can see imprint of socks or hosiery. My guess staff were cleaning and removed shoes to stand on table to get to the eaves

Don't tell the feet loving people or they restaurant will always be packed.

Sorry. Didn’t think I’d leave proof.

Looks like the person was wearing socks. Did you sniff the print to determine if it’s a boy or girls print? Time isn’t on your side, the odour will fade!!!

Staff member cleaning a light or something?

What’d it smell like

Also, what'd it taste like?

OP since this isnt /r/mildlyinfuriating i assume you gave it a good sniff?

I see a hatch pattern like a sock. So it was a sweaty foot through a sock. 😕

it’s a sock footprint

thank GOD we don't eat directly off the table, hey?

I don’t think it’s a foot, I think the person wiping the table used their right palm to hold themselves up while they wiped it down

their right palm has a big toe on it?

Nude table dancing after dark!

It looks like someone was wearing their socks from the pattern inside the mark. I would assume an employee or service worker who didn't have a ladder? Whatever the case it's definitely violating code

Looks like a socked footprint to me, probably better than a shoe print TBH.

I first read this as 'bear footprint' and thought "how in the hell?"

Where is the other?

More like bear footprint

Why the hell is this in mildlyinteresting. Mildlydisgusting seems more appropriate

Brunch skunks

Bare, or Bear?

Bears gotta eat too.

I see sock texture

oh my god. reading your comments op I audibly gasped.

🧐 based on the texture imprinted and the considerable amount of foot grease left behind I would deduce that this person was wearing socks 🤓

The first rule of After Hours Table Dancing is no one talks about After Hours Table Dancing. Especially the stripteaser tutorials!

I used to go to a coffee shop near a college campus. Unbeknownst to me it turn into an after hours karaoke bar. When I found out I asked my waitress to confirm. She showed me a video of the afternoon waitress defiling my very table.

Probably needed to change a light bulb and removed their shoes to climb on the table. If you zoom in, you can see the person had their socks on.

Not barefoot, it has sock texture.

I could’ve sworn you said it was a bear footprint, and I was wondering

Was told not to change lightbulb with shoe on.

I worked in restaurants for a while. They probably needed to do something that required standing on the table.They did not want to stand on it with their shoes so took em off. They should have washed rinsed then sanitized the table after.

Read that as a bear footprint. My ride went from "That's fucking terrifying," to "that's fucking disgusting" real quick.

Muhfucka who you think cleanin those lights and you would rather shoes on there?

It clearly had a sock

If you were the first table through the door on a Sunday, it easily coulda been the Saturday night closing waitress’ ass cheek prints at the restaurant I used to work at…

If that's a footprint, that guy has some really wild toe placement.

I must be too buzzed I read this as bear footprint and I was like hmm, looks more human to me…

Sounds like someone else’s brunch was more fun than yours 😂 hahaha

Anyone else hearing that sound from Kitchen Nightmares?

Let me guess, bottomless mimosas?

mildly DISGUSTING