Checking Luggage: Adventures in Time Bending 9178

Still sick. I'm at work spreading my germs, its a busy ass day so I'll take a sick day from blogging.

Question of the Day: You know a colleague has poor (crappy?) or non-existent hand washing habits when they use the restroom. They ask to use your pen. What do you do?
 
There's a lady at work like this. She's just gross. I usually tell her that I'm sick and don't want to pass germs/take in any more. Always works for me
 
We have someone who rents office space from us who has restroom habits like he's using an outhouse. Right in front of people, he will walk out of stall without flushing, and right out the door. He tried to use my pen and I politely said "Germaphobe here, sorry, use this pen" I tried to make it look like it was my issue and laugh it off. He pressed the issue. I had to just let the guy know I don't want his shit on my hands. It didn't go well, but at least I have a clean pen.
 
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As a manager of a tech support team, it is unbelievable... Old keyboards filled with years of skin dust, food crumbs, worn out discolored keys from dirty hands, sticky mice, Laptops and monitors screens with dried sneeze spray and oily fingerprints... Not to mention when we need to climb under desk to plug / unplug stuff... I just threw up in my mouth. Oh - and the Blackberries and laptop bags... When someone leaves the company, the manager brings us piles of the employees computer gear... the laptop bags are horrendous.. I stop there..
 
I've seen people dab there fingers under water and wipe there hands on their pants. I always think in my head the dribbled a little on their fingers so that's the only reason to visit the sink.


I took a pic of this at an office restroom I visited.
 

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kdebello said:
We have someone who rents office space from us who has restroom habits like he's using an outhouse. Right in front of people, he will walk out of stall without flusing, and right out the door. He tried to use my pen and I politely said "Germaphobe here, sorry, use this pen" I tried to make it look like it was my issue and laugh it off. He pressed the issue. I had to just let the guy know I don't want his shit on my hands. It didn't go well, but at least I have a clean pen.
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Take it to the next level and wash and dry your cash!!! 😱
 
ChrisRU said:
Question of the Day: You know a colleague has poor (crappy?) or non-existent hand washing habits when they use the restroom. They ask to use your pen. What do you do?
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how about when you call out people in public for not washing their hands as they leave the bathroom, MORE THAN ONCE? WTF MAN
 
Wow...I just found this blog as well. I'm caught up. So far it's a good read. I'll stay tuned to the ensuing madness.
 
So...like sure, on one hand I get why people are a little turned off by this. But being a parent and having had piss, shit, and vomit just everywhere on my person, I think you kinda get a little desensitized to this stuff. Consider that for roughly 3 years - the first 3 years of your child's life - you will be a veritable Mount Vesuvius of germ distribution, I think maybe some dude not washing his hands is really low on the whole germ spectrum here.
 
Good response to the question prompt. I'll toss more of those in here and there. I keep a cup with a few extra pens on my desk for public consumption. I was raised by a major germaphobe and some of it has rubbed off on me. Thankfully not all of it. Taking my kid into a public restroom is certainly going to be an experience I'll have to get used to.

So we're back to the regularly scheduled program, for the most part. Being sick reminded me that I'm definitely a bit of a baby when I'm sick. I probably get a good cold about once a year and its usually the same progression of congested runny nose sore throat misery > mild congestion, sore throat > nasty cough > lingering cough. I'm in the lingering cough stage, hopefully I'll be a 100% in a day or two.

I didn't really do much of anything over the weekend. The highlight was replacing the horn in the beatbox. It died a pretty quick death, a few days of barely making noise then silence. It takes not having a horn for a week or two to realize how important they are to have. I'm a proponent of horn use. Get out da way.

Looks like we may get an ok weekend. The goal is to get back out on the MTB, its been too long.
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it was probably like 6:15ish actually. There was a black mazda behind me with the fog lights on. that appeared between my house and that right hand turn to get down to 80
 
Not me. Everyone and their brother has a CX-5 now if that's what it was. I take the protege5 aka the beatbox to the park and ride.
 
So on the kid & germs thing, a story.

One time when Julia is maybe 3 I take her to D&D in Summit to get a doughnut. I make the executive decision to allow her a pink doughnut and a chocolate milk. As you may or may not know, Julia was prone to vomiting as a kid. FORESHADOWING. I wonder where this is going.

So as we are leaving, for whatever reason, she starts to hurl. At this point, I am used to this so it does not bother me. But to the passers by it must have been a sight to see. We are standing on the street next to the garbage can. She is tossing up what seems like gallons of pink & brown vomit into my hands. I am kneeling in front of her with my hands cupped, as if I am a beggar asking for alms. She is giving me alms in the form of vomit, buckets of gooey vomit. When my hands fill up, I toss the blob into the trash and start to collect more vomit-alms. We do this probably 4-5 times before she is mostly tapped out.

A parent who has probably been there laughs as he brings be napkins. I wipe my hands off, then we go home as if nothing ever happened.
 
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So on the kid & germs thing, a story.

One time when Julia is maybe 3 I take her to D&D in Summit to get a doughnut. I make the executive decision to allow her a pink doughnut and a chocolate milk. As you may or may not know, Julia was prone to vomiting as a kid. FORESHADOWING. I wonder where this is going.

So as we are leaving, for whatever reason, she starts to hurl. At this point, I am used to this so it does not bother me. But to the passers by it must have been a sight to see. We are standing on the street next to the garbage can. She is tossing up what seems like gallons of pink & brown vomit into my hands. I am kneeling in front of her with my hands cupped, as if I am a beggar asking for alms. She is giving me alms in the form of vomit, buckets of gooey vomit. When my hands fill up, I toss the blob into the trash and start to collect more vomit-alms. We do this probably 4-5 times before she is mostly tapped out.

A parent who has probably been there laughs as he brings be napkins. I wipe my hands off, then we go home as if nothing ever happened.
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I can't even begin. So much comes to mind.

I find it funny that my wife is outnumbered by males 3-1 in my house. She grew up in a house hold with no males....just her mom and 2 sisters.
She is grossed out on a daily basis. Like when Ethan pees on the floor cause he couldn't make it to the potty, or wipes a huge booger on the couch. Jess will yell "don't wipe that on the couch", so next time it goes on the floor or his pants.
 
Man you guys need two golden retrievers....I mean they themselves are gross, but at least when Robert pukes I just have to say "LOIS, ELSA...ON THE DOUBLE!" and they come sprinting like robot maids. My mom last night gasped when Robert was holding out his hand to let them lick the yogurt off of it, then put said hand back into his mouth. Fun stuff.
 
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