Does This Ever Bother You?

[rexdart]

While having lunch the other day, it occurred to me that maybe thousands of other people before me had been using the very plates, utensils and glasses that I was eating from.

I noticed scratches on the silverware and glasses that could be from the teeth of previously hungry patrons.

So does it bother you to know that other people had used the silverware and plates and glasses before you?

[Charlie_Don't_Surf]

Yeah that shit sickens me, but i'm a bit of a germaphobe.

[RhinoinMN]

No.

[Jujubees2]

As long as they wash their hands after using the rest room, No. It actually helps build your immune system.

[TjM]

No

[ToiletCrusher]

It would make total financial sense to dispose of all flatware and plates between customers.

[Enabler]

No.

[TjM]

Sometimes I don't wash my hands. My junk is clean and I don't pee on my hands so what's the point.

[led37zep]

Not at all.

[grlNIN]

We don't use utensils at work that we don't throw out. That being said i cant take any napkins, plates, utensils from the top or outside of the pile, always has to be from the bottom or middle.

[burrben]

the only thing that bothers me is the glasses. especially if i dont have a straw.

[JimBeam]

Those diswashers are using like 8 million degree water.

It should be fine.

Too many real things to worry about so I can't get hung up on that.

[A.J.]

I'm bad. But I'm not Nicholson in As Good As It Gets bad.

[Furtherman]

That's it. I'm only eating with my hands from now on. They're much cleaner than dirty metal.

[Dougie Brootal]

We don't use utensils at work that we don't throw out. That being said i cant take any napkins, plates, utensils from the top or outside of the pile, always has to be from the bottom or middle.

i do the same thing! especially with plastic cup lids in fast food places!

[A.J.]

i cant take any napkins, plates, utensils from the top or outside of the pile, always has to be from the bottom or middle.

That is perfectly sane.

[grlNIN]

That is perfectly sane.

One of the nurses thinks it's a little bizarre but whatever. I can't ever eat at buffet style places or from any type of communal food (like platters and such).

i do the same thing! especially with plastic cup lids in fast food places!

God, those are the worst. Napkin dispensers and soda lid holders are harder for me to even take from, taking from them is like deactivating a bomb.

[JimBeam]

I actually feel bad when I get a coffee to go so at a 7-11 or gas station and reach for the lids and 2 are stuck together.

The only way to really seperate them is to touch the top of one and the bottom of the other so either way I've touched the next person's lid.

Oh well I'm guessing that's happened to me as well.

[~Katja~]

our cafeteria has paper plates and plastic utensils... foam cups.

Even at delis or food places like Panera I always ask for plastic, I can't stand the water drips on on it and bent parts of it as if it had been used as a screw driver or other tool of sorts

[~Katja~]

I actually feel bad when I get a coffee to go so at a 7-11 or gas station and reach for the lids and 2 are stuck together.

The only way to really seperate them is to touch the top of one and the bottom of the other so either way I've touched the next person's lid.

Oh well I'm guessing that's happened to me as well.

I always grab a bunch to get to the center and then pull the bottom one stuck on the top stack which most likely has been untouched....

I was at wawa the other day and this guy is on his phone fixing himself a coffee taking up the entire station.. while he chats he drops a few lids, they land on the dirty table... he then picks them up with his dirty looking hands and dumps them on top of the other piles...
the second he stepped aside I took them and thew them away, he turned and said; "Sorry, I was thinking whether I should throw them out or not... "

didja???

[hammersavage]

The world is a disgusting place. Get over it.

[Jujubees2]

The world is a disgusting place. Get over it.

Amen. I mean unless you grow your own food who knows what happened to it before you ate it?

[RoseBlood]

I haven't been sick all year, roughly around the time I stopped caring so much about other peoples germs.

[burrben]

Amen. I mean unless you grow your own food who knows what happened to it before you ate it?

i grow my own, er, food

[hammersavage]

Exactly. I built up my immune system young. You people can take your neti pot's, bring your own untensil's and drown yourself in Purell while I haven't sniffled since high school.

[~Katja~]

having a kid brings enough dirt and germs and goop into my life... I don't need other people's germs too

[JimBeam]

I always grab a bunch to get to the center and then pull the bottom one stuck on the top stack which most likely has been untouched....

Yeah but didn't you have to touch the top one which you didn't take ?

[west milly Tom]

i do the same thing! especially with plastic cup lids in fast food places!



This is the only time this type thing ever skeeves me out. I always take coffee cup/soft drink lids from the back stack somewhere in the middle. I don't want filthy Exxon hands anywhere near my lid.

[~Katja~]

Yeah but didn't you have to touch the top one which you didn't take ?

yes, I assume everybody else does the same and the top one never gets used that way :)

[~Katja~]

This is the only time this type thing ever skeeves me out. I always take coffee cup/soft drink lids from the back stack somewhere in the middle. I don't want filthy Exxon hands anywhere near my lid.

exactly, they really need to come up with better dispensers for those that won't allow for everybody to touch them...

[Jujubees2]

yes, I assume everybody else does the same and the top one never gets used that way :)

When I go to Wawa, I like to take the top lid, place it in the middle of the pile and push down so that it looks like it's never been touched.

[~Katja~]

When I go to Wawa, I like to take the top lid, place it in the middle of the pile and push down so that it looks like it's never been touched.

that's ok, as long as you do that to the front stack, I tend to take the one in the back that is hard to reach ;)

[CofyCrakCocaine]

The seats you're putting your ass on is infinitely more disgusting germ-wise than previously used plates, utensils, glasses, etc. simply because nobody EVER washes seats. After all, you get a customer and he sits down on a wet seat, he gets wet ass, yours is now grass.

I had to culture bacteria using cotton swabs from random spots of a room once and the toilet seat+inside of public trash cans didn't stand a chance to the shit that was growing from one swab taken from a sitting stool.

[Gvac]

I was in a diner last week and halfway thru a cup of coffee before I noticed the lipstick on the rim of the mug. It was on the opposite side I was drinking from so I didn't see it at first.

It kinda grossed me out for a second, but then I thought it might've been a really hot chick (the lip imprints were nice) so I finished the cup happily.

I'm mighty.

[furie]

it doesn't bother me, but then again, I'm normal

[sr71blackbird]

It does not bother me as much as it used to. We have to assume that these scratches also came from banging into other silverware and dishes and in the trays of the busboys. I used to work as a dish washer in Swensons in High School and after we cleaned it, it went into a steamer and that killed any other germs. Dont worry!

[~Katja~]

I have gotten a lot better/ easier about it... but I am the worst nightmare of a waiter at restaurants... polishing the silverware before I use it, returning cups and glasses... always the double check that the cup is clean before any coffee gets poured....
the only place I never feel the need to check is at home... or my moms house

[JackieJokeMan]

didja???

Is she your cousin?

[tanless1]

I was in a diner last week and halfway thru a cup of coffee before I noticed the lipstick on the rim of the mug. It was on the opposite side I was drinking from so I didn't see it at first.

It kinda grossed me out for a second, but then I thought it might've been a really hot chick (the lip imprints were nice) so I finished the cup happily.

or , could of been a small tranny too.
or , lipstick cldve been covering some mouth herpies, ewwwwwwww.
mighty ewwww .

better call dr steve.

[SatCam]

I have gotten a lot better/ easier about it... but I am the worst nightmare of a waiter at restaurants... polishing the silverware before I use it, returning cups and glasses... always the double check that the cup is clean before any coffee gets poured....
the only place I never feel the need to check is at home... or my moms house

My friends like to play the game "is that food on the fork or just hard water residue?"

I prefer to eat the food and not look at the silverware

[hedges]

Nobody here probably subscribes to the 5-second rule.

[SatCam]

Nobody here probably subscribes to the 5-second rule.

depends on whether it's my kitchen or the floor of mcdonald's

[STC-Dub]

Nope

[outlawfrank]

no it doesn't bother me, assuming the dishwasher is running properly. Normally the dishwasher should have a 160 degree wash and a 180 degree rinse. If the washer doesn't get to temperature it's ok to be a little nervous.

[hedges]

If anyone has ever been to a nice banquet hall/hotel for a wedding or party, I can guarantee you the silverware, wine glasses and champagne glassses were all hand-polished. Depending on the place, the plates might have been hand-polished as well. Does this sicken anyone. It's standard practice.

[cougarjake13]

While having lunch the other day, it occurred to me that maybe thousands of other people before me had been using the very plates, utensils and glasses that I was eating from.

I noticed scratches on the silverware and glasses that could be from the teeth of previously hungry patrons.

So does it bother you to know that other people had used the silverware and plates and glasses before you?



love your avatar



and yes i do think of this and other similar things as well


like did someone die in my apt before i lived there ??
or people lived their lives every day in this apt like i do now, what did they do here, where are they now ??

how many peoples junk have touched the clothes at stores before i try them on or buy them ??


nasty athetes foot people trying on shoes ??

am i sitting on someones jizz in the movie theater ??

[biozombie]

like did someone die in my apt before i lived there ??

probably


or people lived their lives every day in this apt like i do now, what did they do here, where are they now ??

a lot of semen spilling followed by death.


how many peoples junk have touched the clothes at stores before i try them on or buy them ??

at least 12, at least.

nasty athetes foot people trying on shoes ??

athlete's foot or jizz?

am i sitting on someones jizz in the movie theater ??
yes, roughly 1.5 litres.

(sorry, I couldn't resist saying stupid shit for a moment there)

[weekapaugjz]

it doesn't bother me at all. germs don't bother me at all either. and i can't remember the last time i had a cold.

[Leticia]

We don't use utensils at work that we don't throw out. That being said i cant take any napkins, plates, utensils from the top or outside of the pile, always has to be from the bottom or middle.

What about all the other people that do that too. Doesn't only make the things more thoroughly dirty? lol


And I am sometimes bothered by it to tell the truth. I've seen food still caked on that didn't come off after washing it. Gross. Another thing that actually bothers me about overly used silverware is that when metal is scratched a lot on the spoon or fork it makes it taste bitter and extra metally.. don't know how to describe it. But it has the same effect on me as someone screeching two forks or a fork and knife together. I have so many filling that my teeth are really sensitive.

I hope that made sense.

[ToiletCrusher]

god made dirt and dirt don't hurt.

Lock it up.

[drusilla]

no

[Rube]

I noticed scratches on the silverware and glasses that could be from the teeth of previously hungry patrons.

?
Are the patrons your talking about robots with metal teeth?

[Jujubees2]

god made dirt and dirt don't hurt.

Lock it up.

Word. My momma always told me that you're going to eat a ton of dirt before you die.

[JAH1013]

I never really thought about it until you brought it up. Thanks.

[Farmer Dave]

No.

No

No.

Not at all.

That pretty much sums it up.

[Jeffdc5]

you cant escape germs, the world is dirty dont worry about it

[El Mudo]

I always grab a bunch to get to the center and then pull the bottom one stuck on the top stack which most likely has been untouched....

I was at wawa the other day and this guy is on his phone fixing himself a coffee taking up the entire station.. while he chats he drops a few lids, they land on the dirty table... he then picks them up with his dirty looking hands and dumps them on top of the other piles...
the second he stepped aside I took them and thew them away, he turned and said; "Sorry, I was thinking whether I should throw them out or not... "

didja???


If i'm in a situation where I have to touch two like that, I'll throw the one I don't keep out

[Furtherman]

Bunch of germaphobes we've got on this board.

You can't catch a disease by shaking hands or even touching something else.

It's only if you touch your mouth or nose afterwards, that germs can spread. So don't do that and you can walk around all day a little less stressed.

[spainlinx0]

While having lunch the other day, it occurred to me that maybe thousands of other people before me had been using the very plates, utensils and glasses that I was eating from.

I noticed scratches on the silverware and glasses that could be from the teeth of previously hungry patrons.

So does it bother you to know that other people had used the silverware and plates and glasses before you?

And billions of people have breathed the air you're breathing. All those particles, floating around, being SHARED by everyone.

And the water you're drinking? Try to imagine how many bladders it has gone through before reaching your lips.

Nothing on this planet is perfectly clean. It can't be. Some precautions are good to take, but for the most part, chill the fuck out. Stressing about stuff is often worse for you than some bacteria embedded in a crack in a piece of silverware.

[WhistlePig]

I hate staying at a hotel and thinking about the thin pillowcase that is barely keeping my face from touching hundreds of other people's dried drool pools. Hotels rarely wash the pillows. Same thing with the mattress pads.
I don't think I'm actually going to catch something, it's just disgusting to think about.

[Aggie]

The eating related stuff doesn't bother me at all. It's the hotel beds, airplane seats, etc that gross me out. Seriously, are those things EVER cleaned. Eeww.

I hate staying at a hotel and thinking about the thin pillowcase that is barely keeping my face from touching hundreds of other people's dried drool pools. Hotels rarely wash the pillows. Same thing with the mattress pads.
I don't think I'm actually going to catch something, it's just disgusting to think about.

You should honestly buy this. We got it before our trip to Europe last year and I'm SO glad we did. They have a single and a double. If you don't bring your own pillow you can stick the hotel pillow under the slot and then sleep on top of the blanket or in between the sheets but at least you have a protective barrier. They are easy to wash and they roll up into a tiny little sack that hardly takes up any space.

They're called Dream Sacks. (Insert dirty joke here.)

http://www.affluentusa.com/wp-content/uploads/Gifts/dreamsack_big.jpg