[Caliban]

YUP! I also do NOT use pens in public places...I always carry and use my own pen (nothing like seeing a pen or pencil that looks to have been chewed on by a moron), I also do not use other co-workers telephones, keyboards or calculators. I try to control contact with other's "stuff" as much as possible.

[cynicalman]

OK Lets get real anal:

Hotel/Motel Rooms: probably the biggest germ holder is that TV remote: I wash it off with soap and hot water before using it.

Can you imagine those high paid motivated maids that clean the hotel rooms. I sure they dont use the same rag to clean off the nightstands and desks and remote controls that they use to clean the bathrooms, Do They????

[blam]

"I also do not use other co-workers telephones, keyboards or calculators."

I saw a study done about what contaminants were on the keyboards of public computers. The number one contaminant (most frequent) detected was human feces.