So you've stuck your fingers in sh ... crap

human crap
adult human crap
somebody else’s adult human shit. The worst kind.

What’s it take till you can eat finger foods with those fingers again?
Surprisingly for me it’s 5 1/2 hours and 12 very lathery hand washes. I thought those fingers would be out of comission for days.

Although I still don’t like to think about it.

Um…I’ve never stuck my hand in human crap. I have pets and even though I am responsible for cleaning up their messes, I’ve still never stuck my hand in their doo. Whatever possesed you to do that, and not use gloves?

Awe come on, You’ve never accidentaly had a finger rip through the TP before?

Unlike the OP though. It only take one thorough washing for me.

I guess you could say I’m not that anal about it…

Ex-nurse. One wash will be fine. Even for OP shit.

I teach preschool plus have two large dogs. The occasional diaper leak or hole in the plastic bag happens. Sometimes it seems like all I do is deal with poop.
I wash my hands well, and often, but once per turd touch is enough.

I care for my 90 year old grandmother (for only 1 week more thank goodness) and sometimes she has little accidents. There was a little piece on the floor and I’ve delt with this stuff before so I grabbed some TP and carelessly went to get it and … well I guess I didn’t fold it in an optimum way. Did a full body shudder just like Chihiro in Spirited Away. Cleaned up the floor and then washed my hands.

But the sensation, which I wont describe for you, wouldn’t leave my mind. It was the nails that kept me going back for 12.

Been there. Tramp poo

Washed and dried five times with disinfectant soap. Probably overdoing it, but it was more for psychological reasons.

See, this is what happens when people read too much Shakespeare. They start confessing their deep dark plans in parenthetical asides to the audience… Shame on you, Fern, shame. :smiley:

Good catch Tenebras. Should we call the police?

You must’ve never had to care for babies or small children. One must get over an aversion to pee and poo pretty darn fast…

…because shit happens.

it is the vomit that gets to me=( cat, human, it doesn’t matter. I am a sympathetic yarper and just the though of upchuck can make me feel like yarping. Sitting there while someo or something yarps, forget it, i am yarping in stereo with them=\

Handwashing? one good one, with warm but not too hot water, a nail brush and a good soap like dr bronners, or another good non foofy girly soap.

Hmm, hijacking a thread might cause Santa to leave a lump of something in your stockings. :stuck_out_tongue:
I am single but I’ve changed a few diapers. I’m mentally prepared to deal with that kind of stuff from my nieces. I even whethered the “that’s not refried beans” episode very well. But from her? And it was just so cold and creamy. Like sticking your fingers into fresh chocolate pudding. I just couldn’t shake the feeling that there was still some there under my fingernails and that 99.99999% wasn’t good enough.

Hmm, actually I was quite proud of myself that I was able to put food in my mouth with those fingers just 5 1/2 hours later. Although I realized all those washings were rediculous. But they were very satisfying.

My sympathies - it’s exactly like that for me, too. Cleaning up shit doesn’t bother me in the least, but puke? Forget it, I’m callin’ Ralph!

Eh, I’ve cleaned up crap with a much ickier texture than that. One good handwashing, and I’m ready for you to hand me one of those doughnuts, please.

lol my second time pregnant, one morning I took my plate of breakfast from my mother [that woman is cruel, who the hell feeds a woman with morning sickness huevos rancheros…it already looks like it has been in and out once already :smack: ] walked it into the bathroom and dumped it into the toilet and flushed. Told her I was cutting out the middleman.