Washing your hands in public toilets
makavelli132
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Is this a bit pointless? As when you go to leave by the 2 doors on the way out, you are grabbing handles which are covered in germs left by other people not washing their hands.
Or you could do what I do and open the door with a bit of your clothing covering your hand. A bit OCD but I suppose it helps.
I can't have those pesky germs invading my body.
So what do you do?
Or you could do what I do and open the door with a bit of your clothing covering your hand. A bit OCD but I suppose it helps.
I can't have those pesky germs invading my body.
So what do you do?
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And Vernon, you better be 'left-wing scum' after I've spent half a page defending you and blaming UKIP for all this on that other thread. I still totally think they did it themselves.
Or not giving a second thought with shaking hands with someone who hasn't washed them after having a slash. He may as well shake their nobs from now on. It's less formal too.
Maybe so. But given the choice, I'd rather have a hand covered in someone else's bogies than a hand covered in someone elses shit/piss/smegma.
When using the lift, I always use a key to call for the lift and select which floor.
I never touch handrails/banisters in public.
Luckily I have my own computer at work that nobody else uses.
Germs - *shudder*.
I bet your immune system is weak as hell as a result of all that germ avoidance.
All that dirty money thousands or miilions of people have touched, does anyone know who has touched it
It probably is. I can't help it though.
Do you carry a little container of disinfectant around with you so that you can dip the key afterwards, each time ?
What do you do about files and paperwork and stuff that other folks at work have handled?
Or stuff you buy in shops that has been handled by innumerable people before you ?
I have a spray hand sanitizer on my keyring.
Oddly, paper and files doesn't bother me.
And I tend to grab stuff from the back of the shelf when shopping, not just because less people may have touched it but because that's where the newer stock is.
If I have to use one, I won't dry my hands with paper towels because I think they're dirty. Luckily, 9/10 times, there's a hand dryer to use activated by sensor. If it's a push-button dryer, I'll use an elbow.
After I've washed my hands, I won't touch anything in the public toilet. So if it means opening a door, I'll either kick it open or use a piece of clothing as a barrier between my clean hands the most likely urine/faeces-speckled handle.
I had to use another public toilet today ..... One hand dryer which looked like the first one ever invented and it worked about every 4th attempt. No toilet paper whatsoever and no paper towels. Luckily I always carry tissues in my bag and a bottle of hand cleanser.
I find that toilets in places like Macdonalds and large supermarkets have the cleanest toilets because they are cleaned every couple of hours. Public toilets, you're lucky if they're cleaned once a day and then they're not thoroughly cleaned.
I do all of the above now. I was not so careful in the past and caught strep throat from a door handle at the gym. Ugh. I really want to avoid taking more antibiotics than I have to.
Shared desks at work are apparently more full of germs than a public toilet
As for Washing your hands in public toilets heres an example of how not to do it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6f9TyXNs6w
Armaggedon!!!
I do despair at the germophobes. If they would only realise that over-use of antibiotics is far more dangerous than common, everyday germs. It is said that there are more harmful bacteria on a £5 note than in the average anus!
We NEED germs. They build up natural immunities in our bodies.