The president ought to be made aware of this egregious oversight.
I would just like to state that Microscopic Man-Flakes would be a great name for a rock band.
QFT.
Let it go, Monk.
I had a contractor at work who used to cover his coffee cup and his water glass with coasters. I asked him why and he, almost apologetically, said that he had heard that
most of the dust in the air is made up of microscopic flakes of human skin, and he felt compelled to cover his drinking vessels. I thought he was full of shit but research showed that he was right.
I’d write to the health dept about it because although there’s nothing wrong with the guy scratching his arm, he could do that without it being right over a cup of coffee.
Also, I’d get my coffee elsewhere.
Then he should consider not breathing either.
Dibs! I thought it up, I win!
Though, when I was reading my post back to my husband last night, he came up with a different idea of what microscopic man-flakes are… And I don’t think a girl band would work with that name… or maybe it would?
This wouldn’t bother me unless I could actually see hair and stuff falling into it, which just isn’t going to be the case with most people. I guarantee you worse happens in the kitchen of every restaurant you eat at, and I’m talking about malicious stuff like in Waiting. Just ordinary human activity.
My vote is for “get over it.”
By that rationale, how does he eat? There could be SKIN FLAKES On his sandwich! Unless he liquefies everything he eats and then covers it up. That’s definitely reasonable.
What if he was scratching because he had a rash? Or scabs? I voted for a new cup of coffee. I don’t think a new cup of coffee would lower their profit by much and it’s worth it for ensuring customer satisfaction.
The heat of the coffee would render all impurities harmless.
Is there a reason you need to get all judgemental because other people have different levels of hygiene than you do?
It is called a tough-love reality check.
Or, more accurately for the Internet, a tough-indifference reality check.
I don’t think it was all that judgmental. I genuinely thought that someone freaking out over someone scratching their arm near their coffee cup didn’t seem normal. Like, maybe OCD-esque tendencies. This kind of humorous deflation of the OP is pretty par for the course at the Dope when you think someone needs to re-evaluate themselves.
This was my first thought, coffee is gonna kill pretty much any critter microscopic critter that touches it.
Everyone who has taken micro knows the kind of pathogenic nightmares live on almost every surface. That cup could very well have had worse stuff on it from being packed at the factory than his shower of skin cells. How about the creamer containers? Then once you add being dropped into hot coffee, not much worth worrying about is gonna survive.
If fresh coffee doesn’t kill it its probably gonna end up killing half the planet anyway.
I’m surprised that as much of a third of you would be bothered by this. We’re basically talking about microscopic cooties here, right? That’s fine as far as it goes – we all have different things that irrationally squik us out – but “different level of hygiene” seems like a very deferential way of putting it.
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Just to make it clear: the scratching was somewhat vigorous and it was directly over the cup. About six inches above it.
My own stance is that, yes I am aware that there is a strong possibility that the person whose hand I shake at church might have just wiped their nose, sneezed into it, or scratched themself in an intimate place. Just because these are strong possibilities doesn’t mean I want to see such actions before the handshake.
It’s a form of polite fiction, I suppose. As long as I don’t see it, I don’t think about it.
And I drank the coffee while avoiding thoughts about arm hair. It was tasty.
“Barista, can I have a Venti, decaf, two pump Carmel frappachino, two pumps mocha, add java chips, carmel drizzle on the bottom of the cup, double blended, decaf caramel affagato add shot, with whip, with carmel, mocha drizzle with double spray of microscopic man-flakes, please?”
Would you like to try one of our low fat, gluten free, cruelty free, oat caramel and nutmeg scones frosted with cane sugar harvested by adults in the us making more than minimum wage?