I have a ton of plants at my desk at work. In order to do minor gardening tasks, I keep a small plastic spoon stuck in the dirt of one of them (can you guess where this is going to end up?).
One day, while I was repotting a plant, I had the dirt spoon in my hand when the mail room guy came up with a package that I had to sign for. Well, I needed one hand to hold the clipboard and one hand for the pen, so yes, pop into my mouth went the spoon.
Spent a good ten minutes at the water fountain after that.
It seems to work better then the cleaning kits you can buy. I had a Game cd that was scratched to hell and back. A little spit and the cd drive could read it again.
When blowing in the old NES cartridges didn’t make em work, when alcohol failed to clean the contacts enough to make it run, we’d put a Q-Tip under our tongue and swab the inside of the cartridge. It usually worked just fine.
The gross thing is that rental DVDs almost always have fingerprints all over them.
I got a new release DVD on a Wednesday a few weeks ago (meaning a maximum of 1 person could have rented it before me) and it must have had 6 or 7 fingerprints on it.
What is it about a shiny fragile disk that won’t work well if you touch it that makes people want to touch it?
Funny, I thought WE were the only ones that did that… I can still hear very clearly the sound that occurs when blowing out a cartridge - especially if your breath hit the card just right. Pfwwwwiiitt!
I clean my eye-glasses my licking both sides of one lens, then wiping it dry with my shirt. Then I do the other lens. Unfortunately, some shirts don’t work well, and just seem to cause streaks. I picked up this habit from my best friend from junior high-school. My mother absolutely hates it when I do it. And I’m not averse to doing it in public either.
This reminds me of an incident at the theatre last week. My friend Bryan had bought a bag of popcorn, as well as a large Pepsi. (I only got a Pepsi, and don’t like popcorn very much.) So, we’re waiting in line for our movie to start, when the bag of popcorn slips out of Bryan’s fingers. I wasn’t fast enough to catch it before it hit the floor, but snatched it back up as quick as I could.
Fortunately, only about a third of the popcorn or less actually spilled out of the bag. I then remembered the “ten second rule” and said out loud, “Hey, some of that’s still good.” I reached down and plucked a few kernels from the top of the pile on the floor, fully intending to eat them. Those ones hadn’t touched the floor anyway; they were on the top of the pile.
A couple of women in front of me, however, didn’t see it that way, and made an audible “uugh” sound. I dropped the kernels back on the floor and laughed. But, now that I think about it, the kernels I had picked up were probably less likely to have been “contaminated” than the bag that had been picked up. While the popcorn in the bag hadn’t touched the floor, the entire side of the bag itself had. (I’ll have to mention this to Bryan, next time I talk to him. )
And, I must admit, I’m sure the floor in the theatre lobby isn’t the most sterile surface around. Of course, from what I’ve heard about the seats in theatres, I’m amazed that I can enjoy a film while sitting in them.
Beauty, does that work? Cause my glasses are filthy all the time and I can’t possibly generate as much headfunk as they seem to pick up. And getting them semi-clean is close to impossible.
Another eye glass licker here.
Works pretty well, except for stuff like hairspray (from my experience - alcohol gets that off pretty good). I usually lick my finger and rub the lenses to get the tough spots and then wipe them off on my shirt.