I’ve never gotten a handle that was sticky, and if I did, I’d wipe my hand on my pants and grab another cart. I wouldn’t think I was going to die if I didn’t sanitize my hands.
I stayed at a hotel last week and there were sanitizing wipe dispensers scattered all over the place, including in the elevator lobby. Is there that big a risk of catching disease from pressing an elevator call button?
Well, LurkMeister, I work in a hotel and I’m fairly serious about washing my hands at fairly frequent opportunities. You have people coming and going all the time; it seems a simple enough precaution. I don’t use hand sanitizer or anything but hotels are public places and even the nicest people can carry germs around with them.
I do not use ass gaskets nor do I spray Lysol everywhere I go. And I sit on the toilet seat. gasp
I don’t have antibacterial soap in my house except for some that was part of a gift.
knocking furiously on wood I haven’t had a cold in over two years. knocking furiously some more
I didn’t say you’d die. You are welcome to not use the the hand wipes, but that doesn’t make them overkill. I prefer not to have kid stickiness on my hands as I shop. It also makes it so I don’t have to wash in the water bubbler in certain instances.
Before this thread crosses the dark horizon, I would like to comment that the original name of the hundred-year-old telephone sanitizing service (“Telefondesinfektionsgesellschaft der Dr. Rudels Nerotik Werke”) does indeed sound like something that Douglas Adams would make up.
Do you think it’s possible that the change to “Neroform” from “Nerotik” may have been precipitated by the similarity to the English word “neurotic”? I could see how this might be considered unfortunate branding for such an endeavour.
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The only place I like those hand sanitizers is near the can returns. Your hands often get sticky after all of those cans.
I think I would like the cart ones, because parents put their nasty poopy diapered baby butt there but I can never be arsed (pun not intended) to go look for one.
So THAT’S what those tongues are for? I’ve been ripping them off for years! :eek:
I’m really tired of these women who leave wet seats behind them for whatever reason… it’s disgusting. It seemed worst at this state college i went to, and the bathrooms were probably cleaned twice a day.
If you’re old enough to attend college, shouldn’t you be able to use the bathroom without leaving behind a wet seat?! It’s also one of the things that just makes me want to punch someone.
I wash all my washable purchases before using them. I bought a new potato masher yesterday, and it went straight into the dishwasher. For all I know, someone had let their teething baby (who has a cold) gnaw on it while they were shopping, and then put it back on the shelf when they were done. Similarly, I wash all clothes before I wear them…I worked in a clothing store, and I know what some people do when they try on clothes. And I know that some people sort of borrow clothes by purchasing them, and then bringing them back after a wearing or two.
I had no idea, but I don’t use them so it doesn’t matter.
I don’t want to touch anything that’s “kid sticky” - kids are the biggest vector for every disease known to mankind.
ETA: One of the reasons I wash my fruit before I eat it - after I saw a mom in Safeway letting her kid pick his nose then start grabbing grapes that she just left there. {insert puking smiley}
I knew a guy who stopped dating a woman because he found out that she sat on public toilet seats. I am not making that up.
You GOTTA do an “ask the” thread. This combined with the boss’s wedding dresses story makes it impossible for you to say no!
Agricultural products are filthy before they ever get to market.
I have heard horror stories from people who worked at BC Hothouse which didn’t really faze me, but the time I put in at an enoki mushroom farm opened my eyes wide. The stench from an infrequently-emptied port-o-let was palpable in the packaging room. Gloves, aprons, and hairnets were require from time-to-time, when the owner felt a visit from the health department was due. Gloves, aprons, and hairnets were regularly worn in the aforementioned filthy port-o-let, bafflingly. I observed fastidious employees flossing their teeth over trays of bundled mushrooms ready for packaging, after a meal break. Wash your produce, people.
What I wanna know is … how the hell did THAT come up in conversation? (Did he think he was gonna catch some weird STD from her doing that?)
I don’t know what I’d do if a guy dumped me for sitting on toilet seats. Laugh, I guess.
My grandmother had a little plaque hung up in her bathroom, and when I was about 5-6 I left a little mess. She marched me in the bathroom and recite it with her a couple of times.
“If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie.”
there are quite a few people who could learn from my grandma.
ETA: a wet seat / sprinkly - nothing truly nasty.
I have no idea. In fact, I can’t even remember how the subject came up between us. However, there were other women present at the time and we all mocked him extensively.
Was his name Jerry Seinfeld?