12 most likely (UNLIKELY?)places for germs

[jodiFL]

Remember that not all germs are bad (a friend claims she's going sprinkle her kids w/ dirt to help build their immune systems), but I this thread definitely shows that Mom was right when she made you wash your hands before eating anything and avoid the public restrooms!

I can vouch for this. My older sister had a fit when Iwasnt boiling my kids bottles before filling them. Until I informed her they needed to get used to the regular everyday germs that a household has, as directed by my pediatrician. Needless to say she was amazed that my kids only got sick with stuff like streph throat etc when they were around HER kids.

 

[JUL]

I wonder how the dryer sanitizes, especially if you use low heat. Those germs won't be killed unless the temp of the dryer is over 180F degrees.

One place/thing which they left off the list is your cell phone. Every meeting I've attended and every bar or restaurant I frequented, cell phones are plopped down on the table or bar. You also use your cell phone in many places, where you don't wash your hands prior to use. In the grocery, pushing those germy carts around, the phone rings, you answer.

I still think the faucet handles for hot and cold water in most public restrooms are potential spots for plenty of germs. You go to the bathroom, then, with dirty hands, you turn on the faucet. After cleaning the germs off your hands, you then do what? That's right, you turn off the water, touching something that every person who washed their dirty hands, has touched WITH their dirty, germ infested hands. I have some ideas for inventions to help save water and keep the water faucets touch free, and I'm not talking about those stupid motion sensors which aren't worth a crap (though that idea was a nice attempt).

That is why in nursing school you do not pass go until learning the correct technique of grabbing a paper towel to turn off the H20....I take it one step further and grab a towel to grab the bathroom door as I leave then holding one foot on the door I throw the towel to the trash

 

[Bob]

I avoid restrooms and pee in milk bottles

 

[Miss Kitty]

I avoid restrooms and pee in milk bottles

...another freaky TEXAN! Bob...do you have no mercy???

 

[JUL]

I avoid restrooms and pee in milk bottles

Is this how you recycle?

 

[CPort]

I certainly don't qualify as a germ-a-phobe. However, to me, the comforter (or whatever you call it) on a hotel bed is the nastiest thing on the planet. They NEVER wash those things! It takes me exactly 2.3 seconds to strip it off the bed when I check-in. I still get shivers just thinking about some 300lb. traveling salesman sitting "bare-butt" on the bed picking the lint out of his toenails.

That's what I do to and the blanket too. It almost makes me sick to think about those conforters.

 

[JUL]

I have heard they don't wash the glasses either.....you know the ones with the white paper cover atop the rim. I don't think I have ever seen glasses on the service cart the housekeepers scoot aronud.

 

[Bob]

Andy washes off the needles before we stick the Human Growth Hormone in each other's buttocks!

 

[aggieb]

Andy washes off the needles before we stick the Human Growth Hormone in each other's buttocks!

how long was that list?!!!!

 

[Bob]

how long was that list?!!!!

longer than The Rocket's juice needles!