What grosses you out?

[TL1]

Originally Posted by C0LLETTE

Been thinking about this...half seriously:

Is there really an epidemic of people dying from "Restroom Door Handle Germs" ?Any nation that uses bits of paper to smear stuff around its privates instead of washing with water surely should examine the the first steps in the problem rather than the last. Carry a canteen at all times.

Lmao..... Well this is quite amusing.

No epidemic that I'm aware HOWEVER I do not like the idea of other people's germs. For starters you have cold/flu/viruses that could be caught. And I prefer to not get sick. Now true these germs can be on any door handle and surfaces but I keep hand sanitizer in my car. Also there's the possibility of fecal bacteria on hands that have touched said door because they don't wash their hands.

It's the knowledge that some people are gross.

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by C0LLETTE

Been thinking about this...half seriously:

Is there really an epidemic of people dying from "Restroom Door Handle Germs" ?Any nation that uses bits of paper to smear stuff around its privates instead of washing with water surely should examine the the first steps in the problem rather than the last. Carry a canteen at all times.

Originally Posted by TL1

Lmao..... Well this is quite amusing.

No epidemic that I'm aware HOWEVER I do not like the idea of other people's germs. For starters you have cold/flu/viruses that could be caught. And I prefer to not get sick. Now true these germs can be on any door handle and surfaces but I keep hand sanitizer in my car. Also there's the possibility of fecal bacteria on hands that have touched said door because they don't wash their hands.

It's the knowledge that some people are gross.

You knew I would just have to go look this up, didn't you?

I will spare you the whole article but the title of this Scientific American article is:

"Public bathrooms house thousands of bacteria"

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...s-of-bacteria/

Nuff' said and yes, I will keep on keeping on using toilet seat protectors and paper towels to open bathroom doors.

I will put myself out here for more laughter to tell you; I also cover my finger with a clean Kleenex to push the elevator buttons now.



As a nurse, once you know these things, if you have any OCD at all: you just can't unknow them.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by *Anya*

Oh yes! I should have also added it grosses me out to see people come out of the toilet and not wash their hands!

Even worse, for me, is that people wash their hands and then open the door with their bare hands!

OMG! You are touching the handle after all the people that did not wash their hands. I always use a paper towel to open the door after I wash my hands in the bathroom!

GF refuses to do this.

She is the one that never gets sick and I do.

Whaaat?

Eat dirt.

Or lick your fingers without washing them first.

Germs are like vaccines. You need to ingest a little bit to inoculate yourself against the majority of them.

If you are so strict about not coming into contact with germs, you are actually weakening your immune system.

So sayeth the mud pie eater.

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by Gemme

Eat dirt.

Or lick your fingers without washing them first.

Germs are like vaccines. You need to ingest a little bit to inoculate yourself against the majority of them.

If you are so strict about not coming into contact with germs, you are actually weakening your immune system.

So sayeth the mud pie eater.

Once one has had C-Diff and MRSA, one no longer cares about inoculation.

Well, except for vaccines, that is.

Prevention becomes the name of the game.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by *Anya*

Once one has had C-Diff and MRSA, one no longer cares about inoculation.

Well, except for vaccines, that is.

Prevention becomes the name of the game.

I get that. Hospitals are the worst places because all of that stuff is floating around and all it takes is one orderly or one doctor or nurse to not switch gloves or not scrub well enough and it starts a chain reaction of contagion. Actually, hospitals kind of gross me out if you think about all of the biological and medical waste that is in one. No shortage of bodily fluids there!

We practiced the 5 second rule a lot in our house. Maybe that helped. I became a lot healthier and stronger once I got out on my own. My mother and her husband smoked crazy wild and I spent basically my whole 5th year in hospitals. Maybe that helped. Who knows? Our bodies are strange and mystical things sometimes.

[Bèsame*]

When I see a woman wearing sandals, who has not taken care of her feet. The sight of dry, cracked, dirty heels really grosses me out!

They just don't take care of themselves.

[Lyte]

People doing their nails at work. Gak!! Uncouth!!