For the Love of God, Man. Suds Up, Already!
January 11, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Easy Health Tips, Health, Prevention, Your Body
This might be the most repulsive news I’m ever going to share with you, but I wanted to send you off into your weekend well-armed…with hand sanitizer! Why? Because 23% of those people you’re hanging out with in the clubs and restaurants are not washing their hands!
Ewwwwww!
Seriously, I thought we were all on the same page with hand-washing, but evidently some of you are just far too busy to bother sudsing up and you’d rather just bypass the whole situation and spread some serious germ action around. If this is you, #1 – Shame! #2 – Wash your freaking hands, already!
Sure, most people would never admit to skipping the sink, but only 77% of people are power-scrubbing, compared with the 92% that say they do. Even ickier? As our world gets germier, hand-washing is actually on the decline. In 2005, 83% of people were sudsing up after using a public bathroom, so we’re down a killer 6% in two short years. Gah!
And men, you’re the biggest offenders: only 66% of you soap up compared with 88% of women. And you’re the ones who are really touching things in the restroom, if you know what I mean. Ugh.
Just a gentle reminder, people. Hands spread gobs of germs. This I can attest to as I hack up my lung for the 32nd time today due to my dandy of a chest cold, no doubt acquired from a shopping cart – my other nemesis. Washing your hands is the best and pretty much only way to avoid exposing yourself and others to germs, so please, puh-leeze take the time to wash up after using the john or coughing up a loog. Consider it a gift to thy neighbors.
Even in a monogamous realtionship-Wash up prior to use.
Yes, even my pediatrician agrees it’s good to cover up shopping carts for babies. I have a little one, and didn’t want him chewing on the shopping carts. I ended up designing my own stylish shopping cart cover to help protect him from germs. http://www.justpeachybaby.com
How about all our fellow health care providers who lick their fingers to turn the pages in the chart? “Don’t even think of handing me that chart, finger licker! Do you know where it’s been?”
I work for a non profit tissue/organ bank in chart QA, I remind the “licker’s” that some of the paperwork comes directly from the recovery teams. “ewww, you licked pancreas!”
Yeah, I was my hands a lot and go through quite a bit of Purell.
Thank you. This is one of my pet peeves. I have to restrain myself from calling “foul” on gals who waltz out of the restroom without even glancing at the sink. Ick!
Annie – Pffft! That’s definitely some sage advice, girl!
Bonnie – CUTE covers! Thanks for sharing. Too bad you can’t make them big enough to fit over the whole darn germ-ridden cart!
Paul B – I swear because of your comment, I shall never lick before I turn a page again.
I always thought it was so nasty when a “licker” would hand you a paper they had pretty much just spat all over, but I never even thought about the remnants on a page that I was about to finger-lick. From now on, “licking pancreas” will always be on my mind!!! I’m reformed!
Grace – Can you even imagine walking out of the restroom in a restaurant, heading back to your table and plopping down to eat – without washing first?!?
I honestly don’t know how those people do it. I feel so dirty just on the short walk from the stall to the sink. To think that some just bypass it altogether makes me shudder in disgust! Blech!