I dont sterilise.

I am really anal about washing my hands, the kids hands and I compulsively clean floors.

Oh...and Im super stupidly anal about cleaning after handling raw chicken....

Anything else....dont care....its all *building the immune system*.

I work as a cashier...meaning every diseased gross person you can think of wanders through my line at any point. I touch their diseased money from their grimy hands, punch the amount onto my disgusting keyboard, and make change with other filthy money, to hand back to them. Repeat.

We have ONE bottle of hand sanitizer, it's behind the service desk...and only the people who work the service desk really use it.

Anyone can be at any register at any point in the day, and two registers share one phone. It wasn't until about halfway through my first summer, that I realized our registers aren't actually grey, they're tan. So much gunk had accumulated on them that they had CHANGED COLOR...at that point I went through and methodically cleaned every register, keyboard, phone, drawer handle, cabinet, printer, etc...anything that I thought someone was going to touch, I cleaned.

I still sterilize everything when I have downtime, they tease me about it, but seriously when there's so much gunk on your keyboard that the paper towel you're using to clean it changes color and starts to fall apart, you need to do some work.

Oh yeah, raw chicken. Much scrubbing of the hands after that.

I'm just filthy.
I will even eat something I've offered to the cats to sniff, although I draw the line if they've licked it :yum:

In fact last night I allowed two strangers a sip of my strawberry beer and had no problems drinking it afterwards.

Does your bf know about this?

He thinks it's funny

He won't if you don't warn him before he feels the scalpel.

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Trashcans with lids. That you have to touch to get the trash in there. WTF?

I use one paper towel to push the lid open, and then I wedge that one in the opening.

Another problem: when the trash-can-with-a-lid is too far away from the door of the bathroom to put the paper towel that I open the door with in there. Sorry, but you leave me no choice but to throw that last paper towel on the floor on the way out.

Yeah, I don't touch the doorknobs on bathrooms. Or the faucet handles. Or anything.

I use the towel I used to dry my hands to push the auto-door opener in the restrooms here at the college. Because, seriously, some people are just gross!

I would like to offer another thread title without making it another thread:

Telephone Hi Genie.
*sorry go on about your bizz*

Is there any way you could fit "flaming hot dinner" in there, Cic?

Cleaning your phone is very important if you have fresh, healing ear or facial piercings.

You can hypothetically one can get germs from anything that comes into contact with other people.

So you ether learn to live with it or be come a germaphob.

Sure, but there are some common sense approaches one should take, like always washing hands before eating.

I always wash my hands before cooking, after handling raw meat or eggs, or tuna fish, after Tae Kwon Do and after using a public bathroom. I don't care much about most bathroom seats. I usually assess (haha) the bathroom, though, before deciding whether that is an unwise choice. And if it is an unwise choice, I often do it anyway...I don't know why. I guess I feel it is not cool to have a seat right there and have to hover above it and risk peeing all over the back of my pants. So, I will usually just wipe it down, "just in case." Oh, and I only freak out about other people's food/drinks if they are notably poor about their hygiene or sick.