krys - after getting my purse stolen - I almost never set it down and certainly never in a public restroom. Mine was taken out of my shopping cart when I was 2 feet away, and my son was sitting next to the purse in the upper part of the cart 14 years ago. i have always bought shoulder purses since then and keep them on my shoulder.
I only get mildly concerned about stuff like that. Folding money probably has as many germs as anything else. I purchase many things now with a debit card but not totally. I carry a pen with me for customers to sign the receipt when I complete the job of cleaning their windows, but more and more customers quickly pull out their own pens to avoid any possible contact with germs I may be carrying.
And of course there was a recent incident on the Regis and Kelly show. Clay Aiken was the guest and Kelly said something he didn't like and he put his hand up to her mouth and she slapped it away saying she didn't know where it's been, or something. Then Rosie O'Donnell accuses Kelly of being homophobic, but overall, it's impossible to completely avoid germs from other people.
Bathroom floors? Yeah, I never put my wallet on the floor while in the bathroom.
Click HERE! for the germiest locations. But my #1 turnoff in the list? Shopping cart handles in the supermarket. You guys ever grab one that was slightly sticky? Quite likely that came from the juices of raw poultry and meat that leak through the packaging. Those fluids are swimming with E. Coli and Salmonella. Really nasty bacteria that can kill... or make you so sick you WISHED you were dead.
Pretty much the same thing with the black rail belt on escalators where everyone places their hands !!
I agree!! I can't stand to touch those or handrails on stairs. I open doors where most people are not likely to grab, or I push doors open at a higher spot than is usally used. I use my purse strap to push the buttons on the elevator!!! :blink: :blink: :blink: Maybe I should rethink that one.
Most grocery stores have antibacterial wipes at the door for carts. Thank God for that. I know people who sew a special thing for babie so their little bodies don't have to have contact with the cart. And it is washable. That was a great invention.
My wife works in the Public Health dealing specifically with accute communicable diseases. So yes, we are psycho about this stuff. A little less so as the kids have gotten older though. I believe she told me that the dirtiest (highest concentration of cfu's [colony forming units]) place in an office is the keyboard and the phone, because they are rarely, if ever, get cleaned. The toilet had something like 10-20 cfu's while the keyboard had like a million.
So don't go licking your keyboard :blink: or you fingers after typing.
For kids these day they make little shopping cart covers with built in toys and such. It is the worst to be pushing your kid around in one and look down to see them sucking on the handle.
This is another reason not to eat communal samples that the stores give out, unless they have a toothpick in it I guess. Although, I think a lot of stores have wised up to this and don't do it as much or serve things in little cups or with utencils of some kind. You can damn near have lunch at Costco just from the samples they give out.
A little habit I've picked up is to dispense the paper towels in a public restroom before washing my hands rather than after, so that once they're clean, I'm not touching the button or lever that less-careful hand washers have touched. That sounds a bit OCD-ish, but it's a tip I got from nurses.
Germophobes or not, I like the automatic dispensing towels, soap, water faucets, and toilets. It's really great if you have a public restroom with a large enought entrance that it is curved so don't have a door. The only think you coming in contact with is the bathroom stall door. That's nothing that a paper towel can't handle.
I work at our local county. I bought antibacterial wipes for the counters and public phones. It is disgusting how filthy those counters get. Hands all over them all day....ewww!!!
Restaurants are the worst. Ever sit down at a retaurant and innocently grab the napkin and put it on your lap, and use the silverware without a thought? Or see a table get quickly wiped clean after 4 Flu-infested sneezy snorters just vacated it. "We can seat you now". Uh...
Casual restaurants - Catsup containers and any condiment with a screw-on cap or lid are the worst. I once saw a table where the little kid poked his finger into the Catsup bottle over and over, among other things. When they left the Mom cleaned his fingers off, and the waitress put the cap back on the bottle and reset. :blink:
I don't carry a purse but I try to keep things off the floors in rest rooms and use the hanger on the back of the door for anything I can hang, although that's marginal at best. Scarey places, bathrooms.
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Good info. Thanks.
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Pretty much the same thing with the black rail belt on escalators where everyone places their hands !!
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krys - after getting my purse stolen - I almost never set it down and certainly never in a public restroom. Mine was taken out of my shopping cart when I was 2 feet away, and my son was sitting next to the purse in the upper part of the cart 14 years ago. i have always bought shoulder purses since then and keep them on my shoulder.
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good advice
here is one i learned as a chef
when leaving the rest room,after washing you hand, grab clean paper towels to push the door open. ya never know what could be crawling on the handle
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I only get mildly concerned about stuff like that. Folding money probably has as many germs as anything else. I purchase many things now with a debit card but not totally. I carry a pen with me for customers to sign the receipt when I complete the job of cleaning their windows, but more and more customers quickly pull out their own pens to avoid any possible contact with germs I may be carrying.
And of course there was a recent incident on the Regis and Kelly show. Clay Aiken was the guest and Kelly said something he didn't like and he put his hand up to her mouth and she slapped it away saying she didn't know where it's been, or something. Then Rosie O'Donnell accuses Kelly of being homophobic, but overall, it's impossible to completely avoid germs from other people.
Bathroom floors? Yeah, I never put my wallet on the floor while in the bathroom.
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Ditto coolchef's one.
Also you can always make a t seat cover with 9 squares of tp.
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Click HERE! for the germiest locations. But my #1 turnoff in the list? Shopping cart handles in the supermarket. You guys ever grab one that was slightly sticky? Quite likely that came from the juices of raw poultry and meat that leak through the packaging. Those fluids are swimming with E. Coli and Salmonella. Really nasty bacteria that can kill... or make you so sick you WISHED you were dead.
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I agree!! I can't stand to touch those or handrails on stairs. I open doors where most people are not likely to grab, or I push doors open at a higher spot than is usally used. I use my purse strap to push the buttons on the elevator!!! :blink: :blink: :blink: Maybe I should rethink that one.
Most grocery stores have antibacterial wipes at the door for carts. Thank God for that. I know people who sew a special thing for babie so their little bodies don't have to have contact with the cart. And it is washable. That was a great invention.
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Well, aren't we a bunch of germaphobes.
I'm with you.
My wife works in the Public Health dealing specifically with accute communicable diseases. So yes, we are psycho about this stuff. A little less so as the kids have gotten older though. I believe she told me that the dirtiest (highest concentration of cfu's [colony forming units]) place in an office is the keyboard and the phone, because they are rarely, if ever, get cleaned. The toilet had something like 10-20 cfu's while the keyboard had like a million.
So don't go licking your keyboard :blink: or you fingers after typing.
John get your hand out of your mouth!
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Oh and shopping carts, yeah, eeeooooh.
For kids these day they make little shopping cart covers with built in toys and such. It is the worst to be pushing your kid around in one and look down to see them sucking on the handle.
This is another reason not to eat communal samples that the stores give out, unless they have a toothpick in it I guess. Although, I think a lot of stores have wised up to this and don't do it as much or serve things in little cups or with utencils of some kind. You can damn near have lunch at Costco just from the samples they give out.
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A little habit I've picked up is to dispense the paper towels in a public restroom before washing my hands rather than after, so that once they're clean, I'm not touching the button or lever that less-careful hand washers have touched. That sounds a bit OCD-ish, but it's a tip I got from nurses.
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Germophobes or not, I like the automatic dispensing towels, soap, water faucets, and toilets. It's really great if you have a public restroom with a large enought entrance that it is curved so don't have a door. The only think you coming in contact with is the bathroom stall door. That's nothing that a paper towel can't handle.
I work at our local county. I bought antibacterial wipes for the counters and public phones. It is disgusting how filthy those counters get. Hands all over them all day....ewww!!!
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It's true.
Restaurants are the worst. Ever sit down at a retaurant and innocently grab the napkin and put it on your lap, and use the silverware without a thought? Or see a table get quickly wiped clean after 4 Flu-infested sneezy snorters just vacated it. "We can seat you now". Uh...
Casual restaurants - Catsup containers and any condiment with a screw-on cap or lid are the worst. I once saw a table where the little kid poked his finger into the Catsup bottle over and over, among other things. When they left the Mom cleaned his fingers off, and the waitress put the cap back on the bottle and reset. :blink:
I don't carry a purse but I try to keep things off the floors in rest rooms and use the hanger on the back of the door for anything I can hang, although that's marginal at best. Scarey places, bathrooms.
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