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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

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

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.

you can catch all sorts from coins

Disgraceful. I was once advised that when welcoming visitors to the office, who invariably have popped to the loo whilst waiting for you in reception, whatever you do, don't shake their hand.

Now I know why.....!

i know , realy i have to be soooooooo
desperate to wee anyway before i use a public loo

Ann
I hang my bag up when possible,I've even been known to hold it in mt teeth rather than put it on a piddly floor lol.
Now...whats on the handle of my bag I wonder lol

and never put your bags on the floor and then when you get home put them on the worktops ,yuk, or if you do remember to wash them down before you prepare food

Shopping trollies are as bad.So make sure you wash your hands before you get stuck into that fresh bread you just bought :))

Pretty mingin when you think about it...eww

That's a right eye opener but if you think about it its not that much of a surprise.

Janet

I watched a programmes years ago about it.
It showed you how it was all passed around...via ,door handles,light switches,pens, tap 's etc.
So even if you do wash your hands you are still picking up germs.
If I am going to eat, I open the door with my pinkie lol
And never eat mints or peanuts from a dish yuck.

When you think about it, even a dish of nuts in your own house at a party, even if all wash their hands, they are still full of germs from their mouth.

Most woman was their hands ofter going to the loo. The odd one I have seen walk straight out,I feel like shouting...you dirty b***h lol

Marion

Claire.....

Yum! I rememer this being told about peanuts on a bar once before. I am sure they surveyed various bowls on bars and found high levels of urine deposits......yuck! It put me off buffets for ages!

Ann,

Thats scary and disgusting.

love T.x

I was a mere kid in the 1960s but my grandmother and many of the other grown-ups never went out in public without their gloves. There was a practical reason for this.

She told me it was to stop picking up other peoples' germs because you never knew where their hands had been. More people were reliant on public transport in those days, so thousands of other hands had touched the hand rail/seat/door handle before you did.

Gran remembered the great flu epidemic and her family and friends being isolated in a TB sanitorium so to her other peoples' poor hygiene could be literally a matter of life and death rather than a nasty tummy ache or the like.

Sounds like a "Lot" of "Old Crap" **M**.:o))))>.pmsl. Ps. Peeing on your hands or feet is supposed to be a good cure for "Frostbite":o))>.

disgusting

I once sat in a pub garden where you could see the sink in the men's loos under a frosted glass window. I didn't eat the peanuts on the bar having seen the number of men who didn't wash!

i was in london recently and had to go to the loo which is in the park opposite clarence house off the mall as i was washing my hands this young girl came out of the cubicle and went straight out did'nt wash her hands, i followed her out and what do you think?she was working in the little ice cream booth just down from the tiolet, yuk, yuk ,yuk.

That is revolting. I have a bug at the moment - no wonder :s

Terrible reflection of people's poor hygiene habits.

It's interesting to read that manual workers hands were cleaner than some others. It has often suprised me just how many 'posh' women have walked straight out of a public toilet without so much as a nod at the washbasins.

Gwyn

I'm going to make sure I have a good supply of sanitising gel in my handbag!

Rose