General Chat

you can catch all sorts from coins

Being in the health profession, I have attended endless courses over the years regarding Hand Hygiene etc

I try my hardest never to use public toilets. On the occasions when I have had to I NEVER touch any door. I wait until somebody else is going in /out and walk with them, if not, I use tissue as a barrier between my hand and the door.

Ann, I would have been straight on the phone to the hygiene/health and safety people at the local council where that girl was working in the icecream booth.
It's disgusting.

I too thought maybe I should wear gloves more often lol and I too use my little finger to open loo doors etc
I also don't use hand driers if they are anywhere near the cubicles as the air they circulate is full of germs, similar to never leaving your toothbrush out in the open in a bathroom as germs from flushing the loo can settle on it - urghh!

Don't get me started on shopping trolleys, my pet hate and one which had someone call the police once cos I called her for standing her child in the trolley with shoes that could have previously walked in dog poo, then been transferred to the trolley that someone else puts their shopping in! That was in our local Lidl and the woman kept shouting out at me that I was paranoid, I walked down another aisle to get some jam and she was there and she grabbed the child out of the trolley, leaving her shopping and went to the manager, asking him for his phone so she could call the police, she said I was harassing her. When I went outside she was there waiting for the police, so I waited too, and the police told her I was not harassing her and to go home, they seemed to know her from some other incident too. They told me just to go home and ignore her. I was really angry tho mainly with the Lidl staff for not backing me and when I called their head office about it they gave the impression they don't say anything cos they don't want to put the customers off coming in. I told them I wouldn't be buying much from them in future as would not use the trolleys. I had the same response from Asda, called a manager who said they didn't want to make the customer feel unwelcome, well they did make me feel unwelcome and I rarely shop in Asda and never for food stuff!
Can't understand why they don't come down hard on people with kids standing in trolleys, they have signs on them saying not to do if in case they fall out, therefore health and safety but don't even bother to enforce that ruling!

The only shop that has ever acted on me telling them someone has their child standing in the trolley, was a local Sainsbury's. This rather welldressed woman had her grandchild standing in the trolley, when I asked her if she didn't think it was unhygienic, she looked at my hand (I don't wear rings) and said Oh I can see why you are stroppy, you aren't getting any! I was flabbergasted, she looked so posh, and came out with that. I put her right on that score, (well it was a few years ago lol) but went to get the store manager and he went up to her at the checkout and spoke to her and told her he needed to take the trolley for disinfecting! Her face was a picture as he did it in front of everyone. MInd you by then some of her goods that had been in the trolley with the child and it's shoes, were on the belt so probably already transferring the germs.
It disgusts me and I rarely use large trolleys now will struggle with a smaller one where kids can't have stood in it.

Lizx

WW you also have people who have their towels hanging or sometimes piled up beside the loo or toilet rolls on one of these long standing holders :((

Marion

I often wondered why Her Majesty always wore gloves in public. Now I know. Don't blame her either now that I have read this posting.

We just had a kebab shop owner fined in the Midlands for preparing kebab dishes 6ft from the corpse of an employee who had died. Police investigating the death immediately closed down the shop after the owner was observed spitting on the floor as the body decomposed a few feet away.....yuck

Col, that's awful, and what about respect for the poor chap who had died.

I have never eaten a kebab from a shop in my life and don't think I would start now lol

Lizx

Kebabs..I have often wondered, if they are being cooked as they turn round etc what happens when the shop closes at night? ie do they put a part cooked 'chunk of whatever is in it' in the fridge,then reheat?

Marion

Anyone know?

I saw a man with a small child outside the restaurant in our local Sainsburys. The child was sitting on the stack of trays people were going to put food on! The man was oblivious!

Also they have a low food cabinet with uncovered cakes and gateaux where people queue. I've seen people sneezing and coughing all over the cakes, particularly small children, who I've also seen picking cream and bits off the cakes to eat while their mothers aren't watching. I wouldn't buy anything out of this cabinet and I'm surprised H & S allow them to use it.

you know how tempting those lovely warm cooked chickens are in the big supermarkets!

well dont go there

YUK

lol.........being vegetarian .No Chance!, that goes for the hot dog/burger stand, the ever revolving bacteria collecting kebab or the 'eat as much as you like' buffet at the indian/chinese..some might say i'm paranoid!..but healthy.

I am surprised that not so long ago, there seemed to be new rules and regulations saying chiller cabinets had to have those long thick plastic strips hanging in front of them, not sure why, maybe to stop flies?, but certainly they appeared in all the local supermarkets etc. Now when I go into our local Somerfield or the Tesco near my son's, there are croissants, cakes and rolls etc all out for anyone to touch, sneeze or cough over etc yet they don't have anything in front of them, and the plastic strips seem to have disappeared from the chill cabinets. I will never buy an unwrapped cake etc because of them being left out in the air, there was a pigeon in the roof area of Somerfield's recently so could have pooped on the food lol Late in the day, the young staff come along and pick up the rolls, croissants etc and bag them up into bargain bags, but sometimes they don't use the tongs to pick the items up,,,,,, urgh!

LIzx

being a vegetarian won't stop you getting germs off food one of the worst culprits is salad, any food served at room temperature can give you food poisoning. I refuse to go to carvery restuarants the food sits on hot plates luke warm your asking for an upset stomach if you eat it.

food should be eaten at 63c or above or for chilled foods below 8c.

I'm also paranoid about toilets carry alcohol gel with me won't use hand dryers and try to open the toilet door with my elbows, my sister thinks its hilarious but after going to Cuba on holiday she was glad of the hand gel the loo's there are disgusting.

Your right Lorraine, being vegetarian wont stop you from getting food poisoning, but the fact that vegetarians do not eat meat, poultry and fish will more than halve the risk of contracting it.

I use London buses regularly but always carry a little bottle of antiseptic hand rub/wash with me and can be seen walking down the street `washing` my hands in the stuff. Lol

Bella

Oh yes agree with you, I won't eat chicken and pork as the bacteriia works it way through the fibre of meat, where as red meat bacteria only lays on the outside which is why you can eat it red.

Shopping trolleys are disgusting,makes me feel ill when i see babies in the front seat sucking the handle,have you ever seen them being cleaned,?
I haven,t gill

I used to pleat cows tails as they stood being milked..I cant remember ever being told to wash my hands. I also used to lick the condensation of the bus windows,oh,my!! how minging was that? lol.

Well I'm still here to tell the tale lol.

Marion

i think the problem is we are brought up in sterile world now

i use to play in the dirt and go scrumping never washed the apples always ate them before i got home, kids are kept too clean now have a lower immune system.