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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 17, 2019 16:16:31 GMT
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. You do realize that germs and viruses will live much longer on the hard surfaces like the door handles, etc. than they will on the soft fabric surface of a dry shirt hem, right? From what I’ve read, most viruses on soft surfaces won’t be viable after about four hours. Especially since that shirt is going to get washed after I’ve worn it. As I’ve noted previously, MOST of the public restrooms I’ve been in have the wastebasket near the door so the disposable paper towel that I opened the door with can be tossed in on my way out. I’ll use my shirt hem in the rare instance when that isn’t the case vs. touching the handle with my bare hands right after I’ve washed them. Plus, I never tuck in my shirt so the hem is never directly against my skin, it’s against the outside of my pants.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 17, 2019 16:25:36 GMT
Plus, I never tuck in my shirt so the hem is never directly against my skin, it’s against the outside of my pants. also, I'm guessing when you use your shirt, it's the OUTside of the fabric that is touching the surface, NOT the inside... viruses are microscopically VERY tiny; they can't just 'travel' through the fabric to get onto you.
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Post by Elsabelle on Oct 17, 2019 16:36:21 GMT
Grocery carts. Especially during cold and flu season. If there are no wipes I will push a cart with my forearms to the produce section so I can wrap a produce bag around the handle. The thought of all the dirty hands and small children licking, chewing, and coughing on them grosses me out. Also, women in public bathrooms that give their hands a one second rinse. Why bother? Rub some soap on those mitts! It takes a minute of your day.
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Post by katlady on Oct 17, 2019 16:41:35 GMT
Grocery carts. Especially during cold and flu season. If there are no wipes I will push a cart with my forearms to the produce section so I can wrap a produce bag around the handle. The thought of all the dirty hands and small children licking, chewing, and coughing on them grosses me out. Also, women in public bathrooms that give their hands a one second rinse. Why bother? Rub some soap on those mitts! It takes a minute of your day. I remember one time I went to Walmart and an employee was standing near the carts handing out wipes. He said lots of people had colds so make sure you wipe your cart. That was nice. But I’ve never seen anyone do it since.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 17, 2019 16:46:10 GMT
That’s still not as crazy as my granny washing her dry beans in Dawn dish soap before she cooked them lol Oh my! Those were some squeaky clean beans!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 18:07:12 GMT
Grocery carts. Especially during cold and flu season. If there are no wipes I will push a cart with my forearms to the produce section so I can wrap a produce bag around the handle. The thought of all the dirty hands and small children licking, chewing, and coughing on them grosses me out. Also, women in public bathrooms that give their hands a one second rinse. Why bother? Rub some soap on those mitts! It takes a minute of your day. I saw on a news program a while ago that ER techs recommended wiping down the handles of grocery carts not just for germs but for fentanyl residue that may be left behind. Only one of the reasons I prefer to order more things online now! Generally I only use public restrooms if I have to. Always wash my hands and use the paper towel to open the door. Beyond that, magazines and such don't bother me. My policy is that germs are everywhere and until I can wash my hands at home, I keep my hands out of my face.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Oct 17, 2019 20:34:03 GMT
The thought of all the dirty hands and small children licking, chewing, and coughing on them grosses me out. Or how about vomit on the handle too? I saw a toddler in WM lean over and puke all over the cart handle. THAT'S the day I started using wipes on them!
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Post by Dalai Mama on Oct 17, 2019 22:54:35 GMT
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. No, no missing words. Why bother washing hands if everything is made clean with sanitizer? The answer is that hand sanitizer doesn’t remove shit. It just sits there, less germy on your hands as you spread it to all surfaces you touch until ’a bit later’. And whether your nether regions are washed twice or twelve times they’re still petri dishes. I would hope that all of this would have been covered in your training before you worked in a ‘hospital situation’.
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Post by gale w on Oct 17, 2019 23:00:05 GMT
I'm no expert but I think a lot of y'all ARE germophobes. I consider myself to be pretty germophobic and while a lot of what's mentioned here freaks me out, a surprising amount doesn't really bother me.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Oct 18, 2019 1:04:12 GMT
Oh geez I have a lot of germaphobic tendencies, so I’m too scared to read this thread. Library books or used books ...with food in them.
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Post by scrappinmom3 on Oct 18, 2019 2:36:38 GMT
Ball pits at kids play areas.
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 18, 2019 2:51:47 GMT
The rug in the kindergarten classes! And kids roll all over the rug, lick it.... You'd better believe that I never ever EVER sit on that rug. ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick Nothing in an elementary school is safe from kids licking it. Honestly, should you have to tell a third grader not to lick the walls? I walked into school at the beginning of the year to hear the secretary tell a third grader to stop licking the wall. To be fair, the kid must have a helluva immune system.
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Post by nogfz on Oct 18, 2019 2:52:18 GMT
The only thing that squigs me out are Port-a-Potties. Other than that, I have neither the time nor energy to get worked up over 99% of the things most everyone else does.
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Post by mrssmith on Oct 18, 2019 2:58:09 GMT
The only thing that squigs me out are Port-a-Potties. Other than that, I have neither the time nor energy to get worked up over 99% of the things most everyone else does. Same.
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 18, 2019 2:58:45 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.) Me too. I like a fair amount of germs to keep me healthy. Since they are on every surface (except the sun perhaps) I don't stress a lot. Now after I go to the Goodwill outlet bins, I have to wash my hands twice. Those bins are just gross. They often smell like pre chewed dog food. I will say that chewing pizza and getting a mouthful of bandaid might have put me over the edge though.
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Post by wasil on Oct 18, 2019 3:03:37 GMT
Public drinking fountains.
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Post by luvnlifelady on Oct 18, 2019 10:40:41 GMT
Loose hairs in the bathroom. I never know where they come from and it’s just gross. It would be nice if people would just clean up after themselves.
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 18, 2019 10:42:42 GMT
Public drinking fountains. Yes, I should have added to my kindergarten rug above... drinking fountains in schools! A few years ago we got new drinking fountains that include a spout to refill your own water bottle. It has a sensor on it that knows when your bottle is up against the edge and it starts the water flow. The drinking fountain area is totally separate below. Before we got these I used to bring two large bottles of water from home because I would never ever think of refilling them from the fountain where kids put their mouths. ick ick ick. And in the bathrooms they put their hands right up against the faucet so that's a nope also. So yeah, water fountains in schools.
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Post by luvnlifelady on Oct 18, 2019 10:42:51 GMT
You guys will love this … I work at a bakery and the paper towels in the bathroom are that style where they just go round and round on a loop. The bakery has been there since 1945 and I think the paper towel dispenser has been there just as long. Sometimes it gets jammed so everyone just reuses the same spot on the roll. So disgusting.
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Post by peasapie on Oct 18, 2019 11:46:16 GMT
When I charge something and I have to use my finger to sign someone’s tablet screen. How many nose-picking fingers have been there?
And laminated menus. How many hands have been on there, and now I’m going to use my hands to pick up the tuna sandwich I just ordered? Pass the hand sanitizer, please.
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Post by jemali on Oct 18, 2019 13:38:09 GMT
Fly swatters are gross to me. All those bug guys on them. Even worse people that kill flies barehanded. Or picnics where there are flies landing on food. And those sticky fly catcher things. I guess I could just say flies.
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Post by laureljean on Oct 19, 2019 1:33:03 GMT
A candy wrapper in a bathroom. Makes me want to puke. Food and drink do not belong in the bathroom!
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Oct 19, 2019 1:44:45 GMT
Watching someone put their baby on the ground in a queue at Disneyland, to change a poop diaper....
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Post by Rhondito on Oct 19, 2019 2:25:53 GMT
My family went out to dinner one night when my dad was still alive. He asked the waiter for more water. The waiter picked up the glass, poured in the water, and filled it just a bit too much - it was about to overflow. So he dumped some of the water from the glass back into the pitcher. I'll never forget how my dad and I looked at each other... and then told everyone at the table to not get anymore water.
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Post by katlady on Oct 19, 2019 6:07:42 GMT
A candy wrapper in a bathroom. Makes me want to puke. Food and drink do not belong in the bathroom! lol! I have searched through my purse while at the sink counter for a piece of mint or gum. Also, the person could have been throwing away trash from their pocket or purse.
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Post by katlady on Oct 19, 2019 6:10:09 GMT
I may have told this story here before. I was checking out at a store and the cashier at the next register sneezed and he has all this snot hanging out his nose that he wiped away with his hand. Then he continues to ring up his customers goods. I would have walked away, but the customer stayed.
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Post by MalleyCat on Oct 19, 2019 6:35:32 GMT
Money, bills and coins!😬
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Post by artgirl1 on Oct 19, 2019 10:03:36 GMT
A candy wrapper in a bathroom. Makes me want to puke. Food and drink do not belong in the bathroom! This will flip you out. At one job I had, a woman from another department would pick up here burger (with heavy onions lunch) every day, then sit on the toilet in the 3 stall bathroom, and eat and .... Onions and ..... I started skipping the restroom during those lunch hours
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Post by moodyblue on Oct 19, 2019 14:59:55 GMT
A candy wrapper in a bathroom. Makes me want to puke. Food and drink do not belong in the bathroom! I have thrown away trash from my pocket or purse when leaving or entering a restroom. I would assume that’s what someone did, rather than eating it in there. They may even have stepped into the restroom just to throw away a wrapper, if that was where the nearest trash can is.
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Post by annie on Oct 20, 2019 15:21:00 GMT
I clearly am a germaphobe because pretty much this whole thread I am nodding in agreement! Lol
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