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So I was in the restroom a little while ago and it was nearly full. I heard one guy who was washing his hands berate another guy who was walking out about not washing his hands saying it spreads germs on the door handle. Of course it's true, but I thought it was incredibly rude!
Do you agree with this or just find it rude and out of place?
Gosh, I didn't know I could do that - "Hey buddy, how about soaping up those mitts"
Wrong, if someone calls you out, I commend them...b/c what we do publically can effect others.
I have MS, therefore, I am immune deficient....and love to go to public places just as much as anyone else. However, I always have to worry, about getting sick due to the neglegence of others...and when I get sick, it always turns into something way more serious then the average person.
Just like at work, when people's little kids become little walking bacterias...b/c they refuse to keep the kids home when their sick.
You have no idea what it's like and how tuned into coughs you become when you know, you could come down with something, that is not just a cold, but broncitis, or something even more cronic.
So, yes, it is high time people start calling other people out for inappropriate behavior, b/c Americans have lost the concept of what you do, what you say and how you act, can strongly effect a vast number of others....in a very negative way.
My mother had a very bad lung disease, and we asked people not to come to the house, when they were sick, b/c it could kill her...she was in her 90's, yet, people would not listen??? They just didn't care, so I started calling them out and telling them...."didn't we ask you not to come around if you were sick?" I do the same thing with family b/c of my MS. There are people out there in society that are immune difficent, and if you touch a stair rail, and then they come along and touch it, the bacteria you leave behind could strongly effect another.
You think it OK to call someone out for something that is none of your business. What I do on my time is no one else's business. It is of your opinion Americans have lost concept of a litany of things you have no control over. Be ready for someone to come back in a manner you will never expect. People don't like to be nagged, especially by someone they don't know when out in public. As I mentioned before, it's none of your business no matter what you think.
You mentioned people coming to your house when sick after specifically asking them not to. You can control that and escort them back out. Your - property car/house/apartment/hotel - is where that control ends. You can scream and berate others till red in the face but you are only spinning yourself up.
This is still the land of the free; we don't have people following us around policing our every move.
I turn the water off by using the paper towel. How would someone else grab my paper towel out of my hand? I never said I sat there and watched someone take a dump.
What does this imply?
I have personally witness guys who took a #2 and just walk out without washing hands.
I would think you are a restroom monitor checking out what others do while in the restroom. How can you say you personally witnessed something and then say you never sat and watched? Something doesn't jibe.
What difference does it make in the grand scheme of things other than shattering your little not so sanitary world?
I have personally witness guys who took a #2 and just walk out without washing hands.
I would think you are a restroom monitor checking out what others do while in the restroom. How can you say you personally witnessed something and then say you never sat and watched? Something doesn't jibe.
What difference does it make in the grand scheme of things other than shattering your little not so sanitary world?
It implies that I saw and heard someone take a dump and not wash their hands. It doesn't imply I sat there and watched them. It doesn't imply I was in the bathroom first waiting on them
Who said I was checking out people in the bathroom? You can walk into the bathroom and clearly see and hear someone taking a dump and notice they didn't wash their hands. All of this takes place in a manner of seconds. Try reading what I actually said instead of trying to add more than what I said. If you don't know what "personally witnessed" means instead of trying to imply something then you got a lot of bigger issues.
Sorry I don't live in a not so sanitary world. If I witness someone using the bathroom and not wash their hands, I will say something to them about it. Got it? Good ... Don't like it? Too bad
You think it OK to call someone out for something that is none of your business. What I do on my time is no one else's business. It is of your opinion Americans have lost concept of a litany of things you have no control over. Be ready for someone to come back in a manner you will never expect. People don't like to be nagged, especially by someone they don't know when out in public. As I mentioned before, it's none of your business no matter what you think.
Yea it is okay to call someone out for their filthy nasty behavior regardless of if you think it is their business or not. Likewise be ready for said person to respond back in a manner you would not expect.
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This is still the land of the free; we don't have people following us around policing our every move.
The land of the free still allows you to call out someone for their filthy nasty behavior if they so choose regardless of if you think it is none of their business. Someone calling you out for not washing your hands wouldn't be following you around policing your every move. You don't have to be so dramatic about this
I had someone say something like that to me for walking out of the restroom without washing up at a busy (and pretty dirty) truck-stop once.
I quickly silenced the guy when I loudly announced that my (insert male member slang term here) was cleaner than anything in that store, including the handle of the faucet he was using to "clean" his hands.
FYI- I keep a large bottle of hand sanitizer in my vehicle for that reason.
Wash your hands. Then take a paper towel to turn off the tap. Also use a paper towel to open the door as you leave. Problem solved
Put pressure on the businesses to place simple signs in their restrooms educating patrons on the health benefits of hand washing.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in the area where I live, it seems that the majority of restrooms do have signs encouraging the practice of hand washing, in the interest of reducing the spread of disease.
Whether the "squat & run" crowd is mostly illiterate or simply doesn't spend the time to read those signs is something that I don't pretend to understand, but the bottom line is that I still see some folks who emerge from toilet stalls and immediately exit the restroom w/o washing their hands, so apparently those signs don't exert much influence over the "squat & run" crowd.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in the area where I live, it seems that the majority of restrooms do have signs encouraging the practice of hand washing, in the interest of reducing the spread of disease.
Whether the "squat & run" crowd is mostly illiterate or simply doesn't spend the time to read those signs is something that I don't pretend to understand, but the bottom line is that I still see some folks who emerge from toilet stalls and immediately exit the restroom w/o washing their hands, so apparently those signs don't exert much influence over the "squat & run" crowd.
Right! My issue over all this is because I only use the bathrooms is stores or restaurants and I see this on a almost daily basics sadly. There are signs that tell employees to wash hands and even a sign by the soap telling people how long to wash their hands. The worse are in restaurants which is why I feel so strong about this because I seen way too many employees not wash those hands. That is just beyond nasty.
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They just didn't care, so I started calling them out and telling them...."didn't we ask you not to come around if you were sick?" I do the same thing with family b/c of my MS. There are people out there in society that are immune difficent, and if you touch a stair rail, and then they come along and touch it, the bacteria you leave behind could strongly effect another.
