Posted on 01/09/2007 12:21:17 PM PST by Bella_Bru
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I do that unless the faucet is an automatic one; I like those! Then I just hang onto the paper towel and use that to open the outer door. If the trash can is right by that door, I toss it on the way out!
I don't think it's hands. Hands have natural protection, which you wash off when you wash them too much, not to mention all the slimy faucets and soap dispensers that have just been touched by bathroom users.
Also, talking and singing spread germs, almost as much as coughing and sneezing. In a crowded environment like a bus? I am always opening the windows and then hearing from the people who want them closed again of course.
My kid got sick while he was away (he and other kids from our church went to a big college conference in Atlanta over New Year's and then on to skiing.) He didn't ski much (plus the weather wasn't cooperating), but he said the cold air made him feel like he couldn't catch his breath and made him cough more. Also said he was coughing so hard that he thought he would vomit from the coughing.It's a week later and he's still coughing, but having to go to college classes anyway, oh well...where everybody else is coughing, too.
I did. Not fun.
My wife and I have this type of flu for about a week. We have never been sicker. It is nasty.
Me too. I also make a conscious, dedicated effort to never touch my face/eyes/mouth/ears when my hands are dirty or after I'm forced to touch a doorknob or any other surface of which I don't know the "sanitary history". My hands get dirty often in my work and I wash them 8-12 times per day.
My "hands off the face" policy has become unconscious now, since I've been doing it for a few years. Even if my hands are just-washed I still pause to make sure before rubbing my eyes, just out of habit.
I haven't been ill in any way, shape or form in several years either. It used to be an annual occurrence for me to have at least a couple days of lying on the couch and feeling rotten every winter, so I must be doing something right.
Therein lies the answer. Hands off your face unless they're recently washed and you haven't touched anything even remotely suspect.
A tribal casino and a Wal-Mart near here have it figured out pretty well. Short, U-shaped hallways to get into the restrooms (no doors at all) along with touchless faucets and towel dispensers. The only thing you have to touch is the soap dispenser, and that is of course followed by hand washing.
I agree about it being irritating, having to pull a restroom door open to get out. Why don't they put the sink OUTSIDE then so we can wash up after handling the filthy door that all the dirty people who didn't bother to wash their hands touched? Sigh. But as they say, that's what clorox wipes and hand gel are for.
Or they could go to the airport style of restroom, no doors?
OMG . . . if I couldn't eat jalapenos, I would probably die.
I could subsist quite happily on jalapenos, pickles, Diet Coke, and cheese.
That's the term my mom used "urping". Outside my family, I've never heard anyone else use it. It's a very apt term to describe "it".
Kewl!
I broke a toe from rushing down the hall in the dark to "catch" an eruptus vomitus from a toddler, and slid right on through the warm, invisible-in-the dark puddle skedaddling and slamming my full body immediately into the wall.
Priorities first, slipping and sliding, I hobbled to the retching child..with my bare, cupped hands. That first eruptus was definitely quiet, sneaky, voluminous, and forceful.
The older child felt bad having not warned me about what lurked in the hall. Later, we laughed pretty good over it.
Not that I know of.
Well, I'm talking about picking them up to wash their hands, so I'd have them facing the sink (since I've only got two hands, I can't turn on the sink, wash them up and also keep them from touching anything). The whole process grosses me out-- my main goal is for them to use the bathroom before we leave the house. But I'm convinced that my kids would pick up more germs lingering & splashing at a nasty sink than they would by quickly exiting the public bathroom & using alcohol wipes.
For my daughter, it's crab.
YAY!! More for us!
Reading your post without viewing the post you were responding to left a startling image in my mind. This being a thread about the flu bug ripping through the nation.
I am so sorry. That is one of my fears: more than one child suffering at a time and I can't get to them. Or me down for the count when they are sick and need me.
Oh, that does look weird. Ooops!
I was in a hurry, so didn't take time to put in context.
I must rely too much on those little "To #___" buttons under the posts.
ROFLMBO
My hubby refers to it as the "Bosnian Crud" -- and more than one medical worker has smiled and nodded at that.
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