I’m the girl who puts toilet paper on the seat only–ONLY–if I can see a visible “prior-woman-hover-pattern” spray on the seat.
And that’s not so much b/c it’s unsanitary so much as it’s just plain 'ol gross. People say pee is sanitary but I still don’t want to sit in yours.
Other than that–which is a very tiny percentage of the time–I sit and I’m fine with it. I have allergies but I don’t get an actual COLD (where your nasal output turns green and infection of some sort is obvious) more than once a year, if that. Nor do I come down with any other type of terrible infectious illness.
I sit on the seat, wash my hands, dry my hands, and leave the restroom. I don’t always wash my hands when I leave my own restroom at home; I figure any germs I’ll encounter are my own or my SO’s, which I have or will encounter elsewhere.
Life’s too damn short to be antibacterial-obsessed.
I’m one of the very few at my workplace that didn’t get vaccinated for the h1n1tripledoubleyuuu- . I was getting reamed by a coworker about germs and all (she’s actually quite stupid) and exaggerating how her poor arm hurts after getting her vaccination. She had developped a cold and wanted me to try her soup.
So she’s all sneezing and drooling into her soup and trying to feed me with the same spoon she had in her mouth. :rolleyes:
Like most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. I don’t go around licking doorknobs or shopping cart handles, but I do plunk my butt on a toilet seat (after wiping for hover-spray). I also try to avoid touching my mouth, nose, eyes, and ears as much as possible, because in spite of all the disdain for germaphobes, hands are dirty, dirty things. I wash my hands as soon as I come in from shopping because other people are dirty, dirty things. I don’t use anti-bacterial anything - just soap and water. I bleach underwear, towels, and washcloths, but no other clothes. I’m also trained in microbiology - I think about hygiene and the best results. Most people are not, so they figure better safe than sorry.
My strongest tool in disease-fighting is staying away from kids.
At least the individual Lysol cans might keep the hoverers from hovering. I always laugh when I see that add about how horrified the woman is that there are germs IN her toilet bowl. Who knew?
But those things have a tongue in the middle, don’t they? It hangs in the water, so that when you flush it yanks the cover down along with everything else. No need to touch it.
I agree the whole germophobe thing drives me nuts. Part of it is not letting kids go out and get dirty … I had my share of jumping in mudpuddles, falling into ponds/streams and playing with snakes, frogs and bugs and coming home dirty. I can also work in a kitchen without having to wash my hands every 5 seconds [hint people, if it is all going to be cooked in a few minutes, you do not have to wash up between cutting up stuff on a cutting board. Cut it all up, wash up and cook everything. It is only if something is going to be eaten raw that you have to be certain not to cross contaminate with raw meat … :smack:]
Reminds me of one of my favorite Niles on “Frasier” moments:
Patient: So, you don’t think I have a germ phobia?
Niles: Not at all, just a healthy sense of personal hygiene.Ah, here’s the number of the man who cleans my telephone. The best in Seattle.
Am I being whooshed? I only found one reference to an actual telephone sanitizer (meaning as a job, not like a moistened towelette) and it was a British euphemism for toilet cleaners. However, it was just one dude’s personal web page and I don’t find any other cites for it. I’m in the US, I know we don’t have them here.
She defeated the purpose of both useless items. The lysol doesn’t kill germs instantly, and the as gasket actually wick moisture and any associated creatures directly onto the new user.
BTW, if you ass is sweaty when you use the toilet, save some energy by turning the heat down. There are lots of other body parts that sweat before my ass does.
Germphobia has gotten out of hand, though I admit to double-using paper towels to handle the doorknob/doorhandle of public restrooms when exiting, due to the high prevalence of piggies who do not wash up after taking a dump.
A good choice for restroom air freshening is one of those citrus oil-based sprays that actually kills viruses as well as blasting apart bathroom odors. Lysol is a bad choice - an even worse one is Febreze. For some reason one of the labs in our hospital system has stocked the bathroom with Febreze Fantasy Tropical Island Delight, which when used only conveys the impression that the sewage system has backed up on Fantasy Tropical Island.
Those things are terrible. They don’t drain as fast as you can pee so you end up “filling up” the funnel. I know this because they issued them to the women that had to convoy with us in Iraq. So they were promptly discarded. Naturally, we had a lot of fun with these silly objects- including doing a mini beer bong out of them.
Another ridiculous trend now is supermarkets having to provide sanitizing wipes for fucking shopping carts. Everybody’s afraid to touch anything anymore. It’s gotten insane. The real irony of it is that these people using paper towels to turn door knobs and sanitizing their hands after they touch money have no problem eating hamburgers and hot dogs and any number of other processed foods and fast foods that are loaded with animal shit, and viscera and bug parts.
Maybe letting the retards Lysol the toilet seats at least prevents them from hovering and spraying, though.
You know, I’ve heard people spray the seat down, cover it with toilet paper or one of those disposable cover things, and then NOT WASH THEIR HANDS. What the fuck? Erm, you’re doing that ‘hygiene’ thing wrong, folks.
I remember when my son was a baby and my pediatrician had recommended that I supplement my breastmilk with formula as my milk was waning.
I was visiting a friend in rustic circumstances, and the only water available to mix the formula was from the hose that -gasp!- she watered her dogs with. My companion, observing my trepidation, said, “That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” I had actually never heard that before. I pondered, and decided that he was certainly right.
Well, after you’ve finished fucking the shopping cart the next person to use it for its usual purpose might appreciate it if you wiped it down after you’re done!
My work place have gone completly over the top since the while swine flu thing started. They’ve bought hundreds of hand sanitizers and placed them all over the building and on our desks.
Our office was supposed to be “deep cleaned” last weekend. You should have seen the horror on some peoples faces when we turned up on Monday and it hadn’t been done.
It’s not ridiculous. Have you never seen those kids covering the damn handle with spit and sticky food. After I grab a handle and it’s sticky I go to the bathroom to wash. A hand wipe saves the trip, and then you can tell the customer greeter to clean the cart handle while you take a new one.
