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Post by annabella on Oct 17, 2019 2:16:26 GMT
Those restaurants that bring you bread that is an uncut small loaf. Come on people! I don't want my FIL touching my bread. I always send it back to be sliced and the server always looks at me like I have three heads. Oh and the shared olive oil balsamic mixture that they make a big show of pouring like its some fancy thing...no thanks! I'm talking to you Macaroni Grill. Which unfortunately is FILs favorite place. Blech! I believe bread is touched by bare hands in restaurants. I saw in one that all the sliced bread was in a big basket and the waiter would grab two slices to put on a plate.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 2:18:31 GMT
I really hate going out to eat and seeing kitchen/wait staff outside smoking. I have a few places that are very low on my list of places to eat at because I saw their cooks smoking outside. I am in the middle of fundraising. I have to count money. Each bill that smells like smoke has me gagging. I have been washing my hands after every session with a hand sanitizer squirt or two in between. Why did I agree to handle the candy bar money?
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Post by jubejubes on Oct 17, 2019 3:39:19 GMT
I really hate going out to eat and seeing kitchen/wait staff outside smoking. I have a few places that are very low on my list of places to eat at because I saw their cooks smoking outside. I am in the middle of fundraising. I have to count money. Each bill that smells like smoke has me gagging. I have been washing my hands after every session with a hand sanitizer squirt or two in between. Why did I agree to handle the candy bar money? Use gloves - even the cheap ones that sandwich shops use. Cheap at Sams or Costco and useful for so many other things, like handling raw meat - chicken, beef, pork and other stuff.
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Post by snyder on Oct 17, 2019 4:56:59 GMT
I don't like the animal licks in the face, cats on kitchen counter. Yucky! I'm very careful in a public restroom and use wipes when a place offers them. Pumping gas has lately got me to thinking I need to bring something to wipe those down with me as some are pretty grotty looking. Just tonight, I had grandson with me and he wanted Popeye's so we went through the drive up. The window associate had a card that looked like a credit card. Not sure if it was a customers or a card they use to log in to the cash register or what, but he had it in his mouth. I didn't see what he did with it, but when he handed me my card back, thank goodness I had something to clean it with. Awful!
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Post by PLurker on Oct 17, 2019 6:30:56 GMT
The blowing out the cake thing reminds me of bakeries and the little paper tissues they use to grab your treat so they don't touch it.
And then more often than not they leave the tissue in the bag with the treat.
How is that helpful? Don't touch my food but leave the thing you did touch encased snuggled together with said food to mingle until it is taken out to be consumed. Might just as well use your fingers.
I'm a far from a germaphobe person and I almost find that amusing- the going through the "because that's the way it's done" motions that if you stop and think about it, are meaningless.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 17, 2019 8:54:34 GMT
For me it is people that let dogs lick their face/mouth. And coo about cute puppy kisses. Gross gross gross.
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Post by joelise on Oct 17, 2019 9:13:10 GMT
Yeah, another who is grossed out by the discarded used bandaid. Yuk! You bandaid haters will really hate this! My uncle was eating pizza in a restaurant once and he was chewing and chewing thinking the cheese was really chewy.....ummm it was a bandaid. He told the waitress and she said "oh Joe was wondering where that went"
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Post by joelise on Oct 17, 2019 9:18:22 GMT
I hate to see waiting staff and chefs outside a restaurant smoking, it puts me off eating there.
A big NO to double dipping!
Please don’t ask to taste my drink unless you have something I can pour some into! I don’t want to taste yours either!
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Post by mollycoddle on Oct 17, 2019 10:25:40 GMT
Buffet style food. 😬. Unavoidable sometimes, but I am not a fan.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 17, 2019 13:50:09 GMT
I don't eat food brought from unknown kitchens Oh my gosh, I laughed! But ewww, kitty tail in the bowl!
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Post by schizo319 on Oct 17, 2019 13:50:13 GMT
Electric hand dryers in public restrooms. The thought of all those super heated poo particles being blown onto my clean hands is positively gag-worthy.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 17, 2019 14:03:14 GMT
I'm not much of a germaphobe. There are germs on literally everything. I wash my hands frequently, use hand sanitizer when out and touching store items.
I try to not think about the germs too much, or i would probably be grossed out.
I will say, when people don't put bodily fluid trash properly into the trash can, it's appalling. Snot tissues, diapers, bandaids, tampons and pads, wet wipes with poo on it. I've never once been to a bathroom without a trashcan. Please carefully place your trash there, and not just toss it in the direction and hope it makes it in.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 14:07:30 GMT
People who don't wash hands...food in a buffet , smoker's cough;
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Post by sharlag on Oct 17, 2019 14:09:22 GMT
super heated poo particles Reminds me of the Avengers!!!
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Oct 17, 2019 14:15:00 GMT
I see your magazines in a public place and raise you pens in a public place. Nope. Not happening if I can help it. This is mine too! I'm also really picky about letting things air dry completely. Like my dishrag has to be hung so it will totally dry, when i hand wash cups they start upside down on the drying towel for the water to drip out then I flip them all over so that the inside will dry out- same with any other containers I hand wash. I won't put the lid back on rubbermaid containers if they're not totally dry.
And the communal sponge at work that people wash dishes with and it never, ever dries out. Ick, ick, ick! I use paper towels to wash my coffee cup and other dishes with if I have to. There is so much bacteria in a sponge that never dries out.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 17, 2019 14:16:54 GMT
Cats on the kitchen countertop. If I know your cat has free reign in the kitchen with its kitty-litter paws touching food prep surfaces, I will politely decline to eat what you bring to the office. When we had a couple of cats, they were trained early to stay off the counters (hello spray bottle LOL), but I still didn’t trust them alone in the house. They got locked in the basement with the litter box when we weren’t home. And even though I never saw them on the counters, I still Clorox-wiped the heck out of them before I started cooking! LOL. This so reminds me of my MIL. She always had two cats that she would bring out to the lake cabin for the weekend and those cats were always on the counters, dining table, in the sink, food prep surfaces, etc. The one cat would always get car sick in his carrier and puke, poop and pee inside the crate. Every.Single.Time. When she got there, she would let him out and he’d take off for somewhere covered in ick and she would hose out the carrier. At one point I asked her, “Aren’t you going to bathe the cat too?” Her response was classic MIL: “Nope. Cats are self cleaning.” Excuse me while I go puke now!
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Oct 17, 2019 14:19:21 GMT
But wash your hands because sanitizer doesn’t remove fecal matter. Whether it’s now free of germs or not, it’s still sh!t. This is worth repeating!!
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Oct 17, 2019 14:34:22 GMT
I see your magazines in a public place and raise you pens in a public place. Nope. Not happening if I can help it. This is mine too! I'm also really picky about letting things air dry completely. Like my dishrag has to be hung so it will totally dry, when i hand wash cups they start upside down on the drying towel for the water to drip out then I flip them all over so that the inside will dry out- same with any other containers I hand wash. I won't put the lid back on rubbermaid containers if they're not totally dry.
And the communal sponge at work that people wash dishes with and it never, ever dries out. Ick, ick, ick! I use paper towels to wash my coffee cup and other dishes with if I have to. There is so much bacteria in a sponge that never dries out. Ohhhhh the communal sponge. I'm not a germaphobe, and I'm sure it would send some of these folks into a coma to see the willy nilly way in which I move through life. But the sponge. At work, or at home. At home I use a cheap cheap washrag for dishes (I think they were 10/$2 type variety) and I use it once, then air dry and it goes in towel laundry to be washed in bleached water. NO sponge in my kitchen! At work there is one of those little "soap in the handle with a triangle scrubby sponge attached." I have seen people use it to clean soooo many things, and never rinse it other than a cursory hover under the faucet stream. The thing is used all day and never has time to dry either. YUCK!! NOOOOOO I just use water to rinse and a scratchy paper towel from the dispenser to wipe dry and take it home to wash. Oh, and glasses/bowls etc... I always leave them tipped at an angle to dry. That way flipping isn't necessary and there is no trapped humid water in there for hours til they are tipped. I never put the lid back on containers.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Oct 17, 2019 14:36:20 GMT
But wash your hands because sanitizer doesn’t remove fecal matter. Whether it’s now free of germs or not, it’s still sh!t. This is worth repeating!! How do you guys get poop on yourselves? I mean, I probably use more toilet paper than a miser would like, but... it's really not that hard to wipe without getting anything on your hands.
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 17, 2019 14:47:32 GMT
I am NOT a germaphobe at all...but these few things drive me over the edge:
used band-aides, even my own kids.
Wet bathroom sinks.. where there is water all over the place, skeeves me out to no end. I will use like my pinky finger to turn water on and TRY not to touch anything around the sink.. shivers...
Seeing kids barefoot especially in restaurants.. SO gross. When my kids were little and would play in the kids area, one step out of that area I was on them to put their shoes on.. NO foot outside the play area.(which still grossed me out to a point)
And anyone walking in 'used' water like at a swimming pool's bathroom/shower.. UGGGGGG
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Oct 17, 2019 14:49:36 GMT
This is worth repeating!! How do you guys get poop on yourselves? I mean, I probably use more toilet paper than a miser would like, but... it's really not that hard to wipe without getting anything on your hands. I'm not getting poop on myself. I'm probably not even pooping (out in public restrooms) but you know that there are poop germs and maybe even microscopic bits in that area just because that's where it is.
Have you seen the studies about fecal matter all over everything? It's the microscopic stuff I'm worried about. I don't get poop or pee on my hands when I wipe but that doesn't mean I shouldn't wash them after I wipe! And you know that *other people's* microscopic fecal matter is everywhere. Eww. Just wash your hands people!
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Post by Just T on Oct 17, 2019 14:55:27 GMT
I am not a germaphobe at all. However, raw meat is so gross to me. I have to bleach my counters and scrub my hands after touching and preparing raw meat.
Also, the other thing that grosses me the heck out is when women in public bathrooms aren't discreet about disposing of their sanitary products. The worst was years ago when someone left a used sanitary pad sitting right on top of the used paper towel dispenser in a mall bathroom. Not wrapped up, nothing, just sitting there right on top of the trash just below the paper towel dispenser. OMG. I thought I was going to throw up right there.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Oct 17, 2019 15:14:07 GMT
This is worth repeating!! How do you guys get poop on yourselves? I mean, I probably use more toilet paper than a miser would like, but... it's really not that hard to wipe without getting anything on your hands. I'm a bit curious why you think people wash their hands at all. You're careful with wiping but were the twenty people who used the stall before you? They touch the stall door lock, you touch the stall door lock - cross contamination is not difficult and it's the reason EVERYONE should wash their hands.
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Post by slkmommy on Oct 17, 2019 15:24:51 GMT
Just went to gyne exam. Realized that for YEARS when I’ve gotten redressed I have been sitting bare assed on the chair. This post made the crap real for me. I grabbed my paper sheet and put it under me
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Oct 17, 2019 15:50:42 GMT
How do you guys get poop on yourselves? I mean, I probably use more toilet paper than a miser would like, but... it's really not that hard to wipe without getting anything on your hands. I'm a bit curious why you think people wash their hands at all. You're careful with wiping but were the twenty people who used the stall before you? They touch the stall door lock, you touch the stall door lock - cross contamination is not difficult and it's the reason EVERYONE should wash their hands. I think maybe a word or two is missing from this because I really don't understand the first sentence? I've spent over 15 years working in hospital situations. Actually understand bloodborne, airborne, surface based *germs* and I probably wash my hands more often than any of you combined lol If you really think about transmission routes and contamination, it makes a bit more sense. I'm sure you don't know/remember that I posted yesterday that I don't wash my hands in a public restroom if the sink is visibly wet or dirty and I have to touch it, paper towels aren't in reach or available at all. I'm a hoverer. I also foot flush. LOL I'm an abomination. But, I am very conscious of my hands and where they've been. As has been mentioned in this thread... Money is gross, things are touched by other people's bare hands, all the time. Door handles, steering wheels, radio controls, remote controls (even in your own house), shoes in the house. Pets (how many people don't immediately clean up their dogs waste and rotate around the yard? I do) Cell phones, coffee cup handles at your desk, phones, the back of the chair you touch before you sit in it at a restaurant. Your purse strap, flap handle.... If you really stop to think about all the surfaces you touch, you'll realize that the bathroom door handle is no worse than the handle going into and out of Starbuck or a school. I often wash my hands BEFORE using the bathroom, as my hands (and yours) are likely way dirtier prior to using the bathroom, not to mention my nethers have been washed with soap and running water, then dried with a clean towel (we don't reuse towels in my house) at least 2 times in the last 24 hours. I guarantee you all the things touched on the way to the bathroom don't get wiped that often lol That said, 95% of the time I do wash my hands on the way out of the bathroom, but I sure don't feel guilty walking out without doing so if the place isn't conducive clean hands. And those of you that would open a door or what not with the hem of your shirt or skirt---- OMG EWW. You can't easily wash those at a sink a bit later. And they are against your body allllll day. No thanks.
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Post by peabay on Oct 17, 2019 15:53:23 GMT
Bandaids. Used bandaids.
OMG - I want to scream just thinking about them. They are the most disgusting things in the world. That was my Kryptonite as a mom "Mom, can you throw this out for me?" or "Can you replace my Bandaid?" OMG. I would change 40 diapers before I'd want to change a Bandaid.
And don't get me started on discarded gum or even gum wrappers. Bleck.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 17, 2019 15:53:30 GMT
most of the stuff in this thread doesn't bother me... I guess my definition of 'germaphobe' is much more lenient than most people's because most of the things people are saying bothers them actually FITS my definition of 'germaphobe.'
Yup, I let my dogs kiss me (not on the mouth), no, our cats aren't supposed to get onto the counter but I know sometimes they do when we're not there; yes, I walk barefoot inside the house, no, I don't hover on a toilet... I figure I've made it to 50 years old in reasonably good health so I'll go on living 'on the edge' by touching the toilet handle and bathroom door handle in a public place.
(but then again, my first 'real' job was in a manufacturing facility where we worked with large amounts of (tested) human urine- up to 50 L at a time; (tested) human serum (again, large amounts); animal serum (large amounts); and UN-tested clinical samples of human urine. (we did double-glove when we used those, but the smell was the worst thing I ever worried about, because I knew I was being careful in handling them.)
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 17, 2019 15:54:20 GMT
Just went to gyne exam. Realized that for YEARS when I’ve gotten redressed I have been sitting bare assed on the chair. This post made the crap real for me. I grabbed my paper sheet and put it under me On the chair?!? 😳 After I’m undressed in the room the only place I’m sitting is on the paper covered exam table, and that’s usually WITH the paper drape they give me underneath me too. Oy.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 17, 2019 16:03:46 GMT
I was reading this thread smugly thinking that I wasn't nearly as crazy as the rest of you people.
Then I remebered my epic thread about washing the tops of all canned goods before I open them.
So...
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Oct 17, 2019 16:07:53 GMT
I was reading this thread smugly thinking that I wasn't nearly as crazy as the rest of you people. Then I remebered my epic thread about washing the tops of all canned goods before I open them. So... That’s still not as crazy as my granny washing her dry beans in Dawn dish soap before she cooked them lol
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