I just don't get it. Two times now I have noticed that my co-workers have gone directly from making #2 to the door, no hand-washing or anything.
This is totally inconceivable to me, and maks me want to forever swear off shaking hands with people. I hope these people at least wash up before having lunch.
If you are among those who don't wash your nasty hands, can you enlighten me on the reason? Do you forget? not care? like the stank on your hands? have issues "letting go"?
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I almost always wash my hands. Often before as well as after (a habit I've picked up working in labs for the past 10 years).
If I happen to find myself in an excessively skanky bathroom, though, I may forgo the handwashing. The logic being, whatever is on the faucet handle is probably far worse than what is on my hands.
HAHA I've asked that same question many times at work. I've even yelled when someone in the stall next to me heads for the door, "wash your f'ing hands you nasty bastard" but it doesn't do any good.
I've come to realize that these people know something that we don't, mainly that a few sheets of TP form an impenetrable barrier to germs and pathogens. So I'm guessing that they sniff their hand and if it doesn't smell like shit then they're good to go.
I installed software at work so that I could remote control user's desktops without having to touch their mouse/keyboard. I keep a bottle of hand sanatizer on my desk in case I do need to touch something. Call me paranoid, call me "bubble-boy", I don't care. I do know that I can get from the sink in the restroom back to my desk without actually touching anything, and that makes me happy.
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Originally posted by TennesseeGentleman: They would make my "Do Not Shake Their Hand List".
We maintain a list here at the office of those who have been seen not washing their hands. The ones who talk on their phones while in a stall and then leave without washing get a star. You DO NOT want to shake hands or use their cell phones (or anything else).
Just plain nasty.
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Ill be honest, i rarely wash my hands aside from being at church or work. I also am only sick about once a year if that, so i guess i just have a strong immune system.
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At the hospital, when I go in there, 80% of the time people don't flush and I assume they don't wash either. I see lots of people wash, but open the door (including me) without using a towel, and I see some people not wash. So even if you do wash, and open the door, you can still get their "stuff" on your hands.
Useful tip from our friends in the medical industry: get your towel first and put it either on a relatively clean surface or even in your back pocket. Then wash with soap and use the towel to turn off the faucet and use it to open the door on the way out. Or...wear disposable gloves. People are disgusting.
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I once saw a guy go from urinal to hand blower without visiting the sink in between...
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I like the new faucets at a local hospital, with infrared they just turn on when your hands go under the faucet and off when you are finished. hope someday they'll be everywhere.
I think all doors should open Outwards.. I like opening them with my back.. got used to that when my son was young carring him around.
I bought some antiseptic gel recently.. sometimes students work at computers and have a bad cold, sneezing et what not.. tons of Kleenex all over the place.. and I have to help them for something. the antiseptic gel just evaporates from my hands.. I'm not a fanatic.. but we're in contact with so many people.. sometimes it's worth it.
I won't ever open a public rest room door without using a paper towel. If there isn't a trash can close by I'll toss the towel on the floor. I've notice that I'm not the only one, usually I toss it on an existimg pile of paper towels. Eventually there will be a trash can sitting right about where the paper towels are tossed.
In places like McD's or highway rest stops that don't have paper towels I'll either wait for the door to open or go get some TP to use on the door handle. Grabbing a rest room door handle is a lot like shaking some other guy's dick at the urinal or wiping his ass on the shitter. No thank you.
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I work for a service provider, and evvvvvveryone is always on their cell phone. I can't tell you how often there's someone in a stall, yacking away while on the crapper, then finishes up with no wash. Incredible. And Bird Flu is a problem? Well no flippin wonder.
I don't want to freak you guys out - especially not the "opening the door" guys - but what does everyone handle, is never washed and absolutely no one will ever throw away?
Money....count a few thousand quid and your hands are blacker than if you had been digging coal without tools!
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Good point ID. This topic hits a cord with me. I'm like Marykaa.... why in the hell do bathroom doors have to be pulled open!!!!????? wash your hands and then you've got to touch the handle to pull the door open???? Stupid! I also use the paper towels for the door handle.
I keep anti-bacteria wipes next to my computer here a work if someone has to come help me when I'm sick. Like now, I've got a cough and I'm training my replacement. Everytime we switch I make her wipe the mouse and keyboard down. She thinks I'm nuts. I just don't want her to get sick.
Does anyone else on here cough into the inside of your elbow too? Or am I crazy? I just don't feel like I need to cough into my hand and then go touching handles, shaking hands, etc?
And another thing... when will Wal-Mart learn they need to get wipes for the carts at their stores?????? C'mon, is there a damn dirtier thing than the handle on a Wal-Mart cart????? Yuck! *shudder* and kids sit there and put it in their mouth.... *double shudder* man, we need a throwing up graemlin. YCCK!!!!
There are rare occassions which would justify me not hitting the sink... When the sink looks most definitly MORE unsanitary than my willy! There are places where you can get more diseases off the sink.
Also, all of you claim that you could never leave a restroom without washing... What do you do when all you have access to is a porta-potty, like at an outdoor concert? I'm sorta lucky that I have kids because I don't travel anywhere without wet wipes, but I don't see anyone cleaning after they walk out of those little germ-infested stink boxes.
JP - are you saying your "willy" (must be a french thing ) is unsanitary?
Also, most of the porta potties i see nowadays have desantizing hand wash in them. unlock the door, use the hand stuff, kick the door open (and hopefully don't smack anyone in the process)
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building off of JP. I tend to wash my hands before and after.
I know where my dick has been and am satisfied that it's at a reasonible level of cleanliness at all times. My hands...it's hard to tell what they've been in contact with.
Originally posted by Irishdazza: But you still use money though, don't you?
That's a good point. Money is the dirtiest. I think I had the most colds during the time I worked as a bank teller. And yes, I still washed my hands all the time..unfortunately, it couldn't be between each customer.
As far as money is concerned, or anything that changes hands, I just tend to wash frequently and definintely do not put my hands to my mouth or face unless I have washed first. I keep a bottle of Purell at my desk for in between time.
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anybody wonder if being super germophobic increases your chances of getting sick? My mom is a clean freak (obsessed with purell and all that good stuff that you guys do. washes her hands constantly), while my dad is the opposite (he'll sometimes eat food that falls on the floor... and we have a dog).
Mom gets sick every season. Dad gets sick once a decade. hmmm
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Originally posted by shark: anybody wonder if being super germophobic increases your chances of getting sick? My mom is a clean freak (obsessed with purell and all that good stuff that you guys do. washes her hands constantly), while my dad is the opposite (he'll sometimes eat food that falls on the floor... and we have a dog).
Mom gets sick every season. Dad gets sick once a decade. hmmm
I think there is some truth to that. It's why children that are exposed to more germs early on tend to get less sick later. Their bodies build up antibodies to fight the germs in the future.
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