Wash Your Hands!!!!

sma83

Ok, seriously, what is with grown *kitten* people NOT washing their hands after: sneezing or coughing into them, blowing their nose, changing a baby diaper, or using the restroom!? Like, do they not EVER wash their hands, or do they just like to spread germs all over when they are in public!? It's so gross! Please people WASH YOUR HANDS!!!! Ok, rant over.

Audddua

LOL I'm a fellow germ-a-phobe and I feel your pain!!

EmCarroll1990

Germs make your body stronger.

sma83

Germs make your body stronger.

I can understand that with maybe like the common cold or something....but I do not in any way need or want someone elses **** germs! lol

WickedGarden

germs don't necessarily make you 'stronger'

Back in the 1800s-1900s when they thought that dirt was a 'protective layer' and did surgery, most people died of infection FROM the unsanitary conditions.

Anywho, I used to work in a medical clinic, and the owner decided to 'be green' and quit buying paper towels for us to dry our hands with. Made us use a 'communal towel'. Well, someone didn't really 'wash' their hands after using the loo. I picked up a nasty case of bacterial gastroenteritis. 2 weeks of being unable to keep food in or down.

After that, I kept my own towel in my pocket, and while everybody else got sick and shared the same colds, I never got sick.

Germaphobes unite!

_binary_jester_

I like when people sneeze directly into my mouth.

sma83

I like when people sneeze directly into my mouth.

lol That is so wrong on so many levels, but thanks for the laugh!

ladyfingers39

I like when people sneeze directly into my mouth.

My children love to do that to me! Fun!

mommared53

My son is a germaphobe and I grossed him out the other day when I was telling him how, as a kid, I used to play in the mud, weeds, coal house, my uncle's barn, corn bin, pig pen and all kinds of other dirty places and hardly ever was sick as a kid. :bigsmile:

KJVBear33

Respectfully I understand and people should wash their hands.........and I too get grossed out........but honestly, the world is full of germs and there is no way around it. You ARE going to get and transmit germs whether or not you like it........its the way it is. So if you are a germ-a-phobe then carry around some anti bacterial stuff if you don't want any germs

sma83

Respectfully I understand and people should wash their hands.........and I too get grossed out........but honestly, the world is full of germs and there is no way around it. You ARE going to get and transmit germs whether or not you like it........its the way it is. So if you are a germ-a-phobe then carry around some anti bacterial stuff if you don't want any germs

Its not all germs. I get that germs can be good. But you will never convince me that someone elses **** germs are healthy for me!!! lol

KJVBear33

Respectfully I understand and people should wash their hands.........and I too get grossed out........but honestly, the world is full of germs and there is no way around it. You ARE going to get and transmit germs whether or not you like it........its the way it is. So if you are a germ-a-phobe then carry around some anti bacterial stuff if you don't want any germs

Its not all germs. I get that germs can be good. But you will never convince me that someone elses **** germs are healthy for me!!! lol

Did I mis-speak? Did I say that they are healthy for you? Nope.......I sure didn't.........re-read what I said please.

jaymek92

Respectfully I understand and people should wash their hands.........and I too get grossed out........but honestly, the world is full of germs and there is no way around it. You ARE going to get and transmit germs whether or not you like it........its the way it is. So if you are a germ-a-phobe then carry around some anti bacterial stuff if you don't want any germs

Its not all germs. I get that germs can be good. But you will never convince me that someone elses **** germs are healthy for me!!! lol

Did I mis-speak? Did I say that they are healthy for you? Nope.......I sure didn't.........re-read what I said please.

i feel like she was saying that not all germs gross her out because she realizes that some are good for you.

sun33082

Wow some people get really defensive over their own lack of personal hygiene...

KimLatte

It's not just about the germs....

pucenavel

I'm willing to bet a swab of your kitchen counter or, worse yet, the shelves in your refrigerator would produce far nastier petri dish samples than would those strangers 'germy' hands.

KJVBear33

Respectfully I understand and people should wash their hands.........and I too get grossed out........but honestly, the world is full of germs and there is no way around it. You ARE going to get and transmit germs whether or not you like it........its the way it is. So if you are a germ-a-phobe then carry around some anti bacterial stuff if you don't want any germs

Its not all germs. I get that germs can be good. But you will never convince me that someone elses **** germs are healthy for me!!! lol

Did I mis-speak? Did I say that they are healthy for you? Nope.......I sure didn't.........re-read what I said please.

i feel like she was saying that not all germs gross her out because she realizes that some are good for you.

If she meant that, how come she quoted what I said? I never really said anything of the sort.

KJVBear33

Wow some people get really defensive over their own lack of personal hygiene...

Did I say I was defensive? No........did I act like I was? No..........I simply asked her to re-read because I think she got me messed up with someone else..........

dresser2000

I'm not a germaphobe, but if I am in a public restroom washing my hands, and someone comes out of the stall and heads straight for the door, I ask them very loudly, "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" Most pretend they don't hear me and walk out, but I am betting they are very conscious of that experience every time thereafter.

ccadroz93

I hear ya...its not so much a germ thing for me as it is a personal hygiene thing. I went to the bathroom at the mall one time and there was a lady leaving a stall with her kids.....she held them above the toilet while they peed all over the place then left it that way!!!! Come on, really??? I figured she probably had a phobia about public toilets and didn't want her kids touching it. Maybe she thought everybody does what she had just done! The mess she left for the poor attendant made me sick! Pretty rude.

MelHoneyRocks

Washing your hands is so over rated.... lets be real here. You cant avoid it, you are going to touch stuff, yourself, others, and random things. GERMS RULE..lol

Nopedotjpeg

They're doing your immune system a favor.

TurnLeftNow

I think washing my hands every time I sneezed or coughed would be a huge pain in the *kitten*. I mean, what if I am no where near a bathroom? I mean, I don't sneeze or cough into my hands, so I think I should be safe.

I feel like the only really gross one is not washing your hands after using the bathroom. That's kind of a bad habit.

sma83

If she meant that, how come she quoted what I said? I never really said anything of the sort.
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You took the "you" a little too seriously. I didnt mean YOU personally! I just meant that in general I wasnt going to be convinced that people dont need to wash their hands...especially after using the restroom.

KJVBear33

I'm not a germaphobe, but if I am in a public restroom washing my hands, and someone comes out of the stall and heads straight for the door, I ask them very loudly, "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" Most pretend they don't hear me and walk out, but I am betting they are very conscious of that experience every time thereafter.

Personally, no offense, but I find that rude..........its their own personal preference.........if you don't like it, you don't have to. I know I certainly don't like it myself, but embarrasing someone like that is not called for at all. I simply make it a point not to touch said door knob with my hands. I use the towel that I dry off with.......

KJVBear33

I hear ya...its not so much a germ thing for me as it is a personal hygiene thing. I went to the bathroom at the mall one time and there was a lady leaving a stall with her kids.....she held them above the toilet while they peed all over the place then left it that way!!!! Come on, really??? I figured she probably had a phobia about public toilets and didn't want her kids touching it. Maybe she thought everybody does what she had just done! The mess she left for the poor attendant made me sick! Pretty rude.

You pose two different situations there........washing hands is one thing........a completely different thing to leave pee and fecal matter all over the toilet seat/bathroom stall floor and not clean it up........and I agree with you.......pretty gross and very rude.

MelHoneyRocks

I'm not a germaphobe, but if I am in a public restroom washing my hands, and someone comes out of the stall and heads straight for the door, I ask them very loudly, "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" Most pretend they don't hear me and walk out, but I am betting they are very conscious of that experience every time thereafter.

I bet they dont care...and I bet THEY never get sick either.

Elizabeth_C34

Respectfully I understand and people should wash their hands.........and I too get grossed out........but honestly, the world is full of germs and there is no way around it. You ARE going to get and transmit germs whether or not you like it........its the way it is. So if you are a germ-a-phobe then carry around some anti bacterial stuff if you don't want any germs

Its not all germs. I get that germs can be good. But you will never convince me that someone elses **** germs are healthy for me!!! lol

There is no such thing as "someone else's germs."

pucenavel

I hear ya...its not so much a germ thing for me as it is a personal hygiene thing. I went to the bathroom at the mall one time and there was a lady leaving a stall with her kids.....she held them above the toilet while they peed all over the place then left it that way!!!! Come on, really??? I figured she probably had a phobia about public toilets and didn't want her kids touching it. Maybe she thought everybody does what she had just done! The mess she left for the poor attendant made me sick! Pretty rude.

Amen.

If you're too afraid to touch the seat, and end up peeing all over the seat, then you shouldn't be allowed to use the public restroom. I'm appalled when I see a man use the stall (instead of the urinal..??), pee all over the seat (because he can't be bothered with "ewww.. touching the seat"), then leaves a piss covered seat for the guy who's coming in behind him in, shall we say, gastric distress, and has to hold back the "floodgates" while he first finds paper towels to clean off the ring.

A--hats!!

islandjumper

I am an avid washer of hands...but I can't get all worked up about germs. to some extent your body needs exposure to low levels of viruses (like the cold and flu) and bacteria to strengthen your immune system. but at the same time yes, people should cover their noses/mouths when they sneeze/cough and wash their hands regularly. That being said I've lived in some really extreme conditions (I lived in a village in sub-Saharan Africa with no running water or indoor plumbing...or electricity for that matter) and local kids crowded around with unwashed hands after ****ing on the beach and snot running out of their nose. After that there isn't much that phases me.

clewis628

I'm not a germaphobe, but if I am in a public restroom washing my hands, and someone comes out of the stall and heads straight for the door, I ask them very loudly, "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" Most pretend they don't hear me and walk out, but I am betting they are very conscious of that experience every time thereafter.

I am one who heads straight for the door but as soon as I'm outside the door, I'm using my Purell. I HATE those hand blowers and so many bathrooms use them. They just spread the germs all over. They don't dry your hands. I also figure that even if I wash my hands, there are those who do just walk out the door so I'm touching the germs anyway. For that reason, I use the Purell after I walk out. So...next time you see someone walk out without washing, they might be reaching for the Purell as soon as they get out the door.