Beware of Licking Envelopes

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Beware of Licking Envelopes

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A friend forwarded this true story to me. :-O

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This story tells us two things: if you need to wet the stamp with your saliva you better spit some onto your finger instead of licking the stamp directly; secondly if you do lick the stamp or envelope don't forget to rinse your mouth with the mouth wash liquid.
Envelopes and Stamps
A woman was working in a post Office in California . One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge. That very day the lady found a cut on her tongue. A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue.

She went to the doctor, and they found nothing wrong.. Her tongue was not sore or anything... A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell more, and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat. She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done.

The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a lump. He prepared her for minor surgery. When The doctor cut her tongue open, a live cockroach crawled out!!!! (This is too dramatic, how can croach live in the tongue?? Apparently this could not be true.)

There were cockroach eggs on the seal of the Envelope. The egg was able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva, which was warm and moist.....
This is a truestory reported on CNN!

Andy Hume wrote: Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You wouldn't believe the....things that float around in those gum applicator trays. I haven't licked an envelope for years!'

I used to work for a print shop(32 years ago), and we were told NEVERto lick the envelopes. I never understood why until I had to go into storage and pull out 2500 envelopes that were already printed and saw several squads of cockroaches roaming around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes.
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I think I'm going to be sick :$ :-#

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:$ Horrible

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I'm afraid this one has been doing the rounds via e-mail since the dawn of the internet.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp

Remember the age old adage; if someone forwards you something proclaiming it to be true, it's most certainly not.

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I'm afraid this one has been doing the rounds via e-mail since the dawn of the internet.
Remember the age old adage; if someone forwards you something proclaiming it to be true, it's most certainly not.
Don't you just hate it when someone comes along and ruins a good horror story? :doh: :wall:

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Nigel H-J wrote:
I'm afraid this one has been doing the rounds via e-mail since the dawn of the internet.
Remember the age old adage; if someone forwards you something proclaiming it to be true, it's most certainly not.
Don't you just hate it when someone comes along and ruins a good horror story? :doh: :wall:

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I can't help it, I've usually seen them in my inbox a hundred and one times in the past. :lol:

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I'm glad I've eaten :help:

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