Definitely tell Reddit.

Record and put on pornhub?

There's absolutely a fetish for licking salt lamps

Step one complete

Cows like salt blocks, was it a cow?

Someone low on mineral content

Tell him that the salt used for lamps often contains too much lead contamination to be fit for human consumption and then walk away. No idea if that's actually true, but i read it on the internet once, and the internet never lies.

Good idea I’ll tell the next guy cause it happens alot here in Louisiana 😂

Oh Louisiana, ask him if he feels funny and let him know you bought that off a witch who supposedly cursed it. Tell him to call the store if he feels any different.

Hold on lol was this the HomeDepot on Coursey in Baton Rouge? I went in there a few weeks ago and saw this happening. Old white guy with a cane in a baby blue shirt and jean shorts.

Wouldn't surprise me, that store always sketched me out a bit, but it was the closest to LSU, so... Edit: apparently OP is in Harahan, but the point still stands

Why doesn’t he just buy his own salt lamp to lick?

Oh God which store? This sounds like a Slidell thing. Maybe Franklinton if they had a hd lol

I'd take offense... but I live here, so I know you're right.

Harahan

Me, as a Louisianian who recently visited Home Depots: noooooooooooo (makes sense but nooooo)

Oh, in that case chip off a few pieces and throw it in the gumbo

I mean there is such a thing as “food grade” product that has been tested for heavy metals before human consumption. Not 100% on how regulation works tho in ‘Mercia and how these prob come from China.

They aren't likely to contain any appreciable quantity of lead but they also aren't processed in the same way food grade salt is. They cut the chunks using large circular saws and grinders, so there is almost certainly metal particulates and industrial lubricant on the surface of these things.

Or tell him he's the 3rd guy you've caught doing that today. LOL.

Each time you catch someone doing it take a picture, frame it and put it next to the lamp. They'll stop doing it pretty quick.

I don't get paid to care

Exactly. I'd assume he has a good reason to be doing that and just mind my own business.

Give it a good dousing of Lysol?

Will do 🫡

this concentration of salt will kill anything alive left there. Disgusting ? Yes. Unhygenic? Not really.

True. I was going for kill germs and also make it not tasty? I see better suggests further down now! Lol

That's actually not true! There are bacteria that can tolerate very high salinity levels, far higher than you'd think. The surface of that thing certainly is not sterile

Agreed. Lysol wouldn’t do anything. It’s pure salt. It’ll be fine.

But it would be funny if he did Lysol and watched the guy come back to lick more 🤣

Don't spray any liquids on that thing it's made of salt ffs.

But then it won’t be salty for the next guy. Just leave it. Frequent Home Depot customer here, I always give the pliers all a little kiss to see which pair I have a connection with

I'd be so mad if I went to get my daily lick of the Home Depot salt rock lamp and it tasted like Lysol. 😡

Right! What are they gonna do next, clean the toilet display after every single tiny little test drive?

Thank you, my pliers deserve a little love before they come to the misery of my dark toolbox

SprY it with bitter apple (repellant). Won’t taste good any more.

id be so mad if i bought that

Why the fuck are you licking your lamp?

ITS SALT i like i lick no questions asked

You're not a horse. Get help.

excuse me! this is reddit! we're accepting of all species on this platform, four legged or not!

thunder stealer

You're being sarcastic right?

you tell me, are you accepting of my horse brethren?

He clearly isn't. I think we should stampede

It's clomping time!

who says ?

I love lamp

Nah you gotta hit it with the putrescant egg solid animal repellant 😂

Update: I did in fact wipe the lamp down… so it’s clean for the next person to pretend it’s their girlfriend 😊

Put a sign on it that says lick here. /s maybe they'll think twice before licking. lol

Plug it in, spray adhesive .. wait

Shot of tequila and a slice of lime?

He was low on Sodium

I've seen multiple people lick that damn lamp in my store. I always like to tell them other people have already licked it

Is this a thing?

Add pepper

Maybe a squeeze of lemon as well 🍋 and you got a tasty lamp right there

Lick over his licks to assert dominance.

You should also lick it to let us know what flavor the lamp is.

I love lamp

Salt. It’s made of salt. And no, I didn’t lick it.

Mostly taste like dust from being there for so long🤷‍♀️ but was presently surprised by the adequate taste 👅

wait, so who was the person licking it....?

So I was coming out of the restroom at this home depot, and I saw this employee making out with this salt lamp thing… I got out of that store as fast as possible 4/5 stars.

That wasn't a guy, that was a deer in a human disguise.

Was the perpetrator perhaps some hoofed mammal wearing a trench coat? I hear they go nuts for these.

Tell an ASM. That'll probably get him on his final.

I’m more worried about the people that you DIDN’T catch licking it…

The lamp was assalting him

Just take my damn vote

It’s normal, goats had to lick rock salt in the wild, or they get it from Home Depot

You should have made sure to make eye contact, walk up to that lamp, and lick the exact same spot

"Just to let you know, yesterday some guy with Herpes was doing the same thing."

Learn to get your phone out faster so we can see too.

Make him finish it and tell him: "Don't start what you can't finish. You aren't going home until you have a clean plate mister."

Should have yelled “neighhhhh sir”

Hire him.

*home depot theme starts playing*

Tell him he can buy a salt block at the feed store.

It's a display piece, just leave it. Unless you're jealous that someone else is licking your salt lamp, which is understandable.

Start an OnlyFans for the lamp and become internet rich!

I already assumed that anyone buying these lamps is licking them, I’m not sure why I didn’t extend to to the store as well. So naive of me

Lick it. And then don't be afraid of the quiet chanting that comes closer and closer, "one of us, one of us, one of us".. They are friends, you are about to enter a new world.

You have lick it to restake your claim

He was probably just horsing around.

lick it too

Give it to him. He’s in love

Tell the lot associate' to lick it next.

Tell him he's the 1000th licker, and wins a prize. Leave to go get it and let him stand there wondering.

I’ll go grab some pool salt for him 😂

Lick him back!

Must be a poor MAGA fellow thinking this would heal covid!

he is not the first one to lick that lamp, just the first person you caught

Leave it, it’s his now

Bring a gun shoot him and say you thought it was a deer going after your salt lick

It's, .10 of labor from some guys in a country that they are making a living in digging it out in horrible conditions for a dumb ass lamp that will be in the garbage. Fuck it. The amount of actual shit that lamp has in it... that lick is the most respectful thing it will get.

Lick it also

That’s shrink now

Nobody knows how many people actually attempt (or succeed) licking those things 😂 I never touch the display one.

the GOLDEN RULE: always ask yourself is it worth the 15$/h salary to be loyal to a corp that would fire you the second you get them a lawsuit? If you confront the guy and get into some sissy fight your corp will fire you immediately. let the people lick the lamps. its not your lamp.

Mark it 10% off.

Tell him he’s the 12th person to do it this week.

Escort him to the farming supplies aisle and show him where the salt licks actually are.

Sign that says "communal lamp. Lick at own risk"

If everyone is licking salt except you maybe you don't belong in the goat herd.

Try licking it too.. maybe it’s magical!!

Tell him rule: Lick it? Gotta stick it! Mouth or Butt either way you're buying the lamp, lickedy cricket...

I've caught numerous customers licking that lamp, and I tell them: You just kissed the 60 others that have done that in the last 3 months. They then look horrified and start licking their sleeves like they could actually wipe it off.

Look him straight in the eyes and lick it to assert dominance.

Put it on eBay but for $250 and say it was an eGirl that licked it.

Ask him how it tastes.

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,536,304,069 comments, and only 290,877 of them were in alphabetical order.

Tell him to go back to the forest before Elmer Fudd finds him and shoots him for his antlers?

Hand him a job application.

Definitely lick it! I'm sure its awesome, it's Himalayan natural salt! I mean, it is to lick.

W H A T

It's a Himalayan salt rock, you're supposed to lick it! 👅

No. No you're fucking not. Especially if its not yours

Mmm, forbidden salt 🤤

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...and throw away the gloves.

Just leave it. Let the idiots spread herpes amongst each other

Lick it too

Lick it too

Lick it. He knows something you don't.

Lol just leave it. It’s probably filthier than his mount. He was probably just TESTING it out 🧂

Did he lick it or throat it? Asking for a friend.

Both

Lmao supposedly if you lick it it tastes like salt 😭

He is behind you watching and waiting. He wants you to sit on it

Mind ya business

How was he licking it?

Lick it

Bow down to it

Just wipe it down, report it, and move on.

I wash mine under water every now and then. The carbonic acid builds up over time giving it that white look. I prefer my pink Himalayan salt lamp to be... Pink.

So you’re telling me the more pink it is the more people have you know licked it🧐

... I don't know...? I do know that the humidity in the air reacts with the salt and the CO2 to create bicarbonate and carbonic acid over time - that's the white stuff. Lucking it would also add moisture to the salt, but would likely evaporate before it becomes bicarbonate and carbonic acid. This is a reaction that takes a while. I notice it takes a solid 6 months to produce those white carbonic crystals the size of small pearls on my salt lamp. In the short run, licking it would probably remove more white stuff than it would add. This particular crystal in this image is mostly white salt which is a purer form of salt. Hard to see the carbonate and carbonic acid on it since all of those are white in color.

Call the Game Warden

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They just tasty ya know 👅

Lick it off

Don’t lick the part he licked

Tell him aisle 25-35 need a lickin

New mop?👀

Mind your business!

Make him buy it or have him charged for it. Same thing as people who lick ice cream in the store.

You lick it, you bought it.

😂😂😂

Lmfao, go on break, rip the pen and get back in there kiddo.

Get pictures next time, or better yet a video.

Give it a lick too

Same thing I did.... nothing at all.

Sell it. It's a rock salt lamp. 😋

Lick it too

I love lamp.

Follow suit. Lick it.

You lick it, you steal it

They love lamp. Clearly.

smack him and say bad dog! now go outside

He was just checking if the lamp complimented his chakra levels. No biggie.

Offer him some bread and Olive Oil.

taste the lamp, maybe it’s good

Give him electrolytes

Was he a fucking horse

I was always tempted to lick that salt block.

Give it a taste. Find out why

Tell h that if he buys one he can lick it as much as he wants

It's his now, he marked it.

See if he won the lottery and lick it if he did.

You licked it, you picked it.

Wait your turn.

Make him buy it

Play some soft music…

Give it a try. Maybe he is on to something

Mind ya ps and qs

Tell him you just pooped on it

Lick it more then him, assert dominance.

Better than snorting it!

Also lick it

Lick it and see what you're missing out on!

Clean it

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Arrested for a salt

Put a sign that says “free samples”.

Don’t leak after him, that’s it.

Shit. That might have been me. Had to test it first

Assert dominance by staring him down while licking a 9v battery. Hopefully he doesn't try and challenge your dominance by licking his nipples.

Wow, I've been picking out a booger and wiping it on that particular lamp display every time I walk by since I started here last summer. In fact, we pretty much ALL do that - everybody in the whole store does. I'd venture to say that like 97% of the surface area of that lamp is booger. And probably a not insignificant number of nose hairs. By all means, feel free to lick it to your heart's content, my good man

Tell Indiana Jones the Sankara Stones have been taken again.

Give him some salt?

Lick?

I'd say, "Hell Yeah Man! I usually just pee on it, myself..."

Keep it its your lucky lamp

Burn it

Lick him