LEGAL ISSUE OF THE WEEK

Yessssssssss!

Key quote: "You wash your hand and you've got to grab the knob that some guy just had his pissy hand all over," Flavin said in an interview. "It's been annoying me for some time."

Comments

[Siouxie]

Finally. some common sense!

[Patchy the Squirrel]

Finally. Good to see I'm not the only one this annoys. What do you do when you don't have long sleeves you can pull down over your hands, and there are no towels to use on the handle because there are only air dryers? Is it just me, or do a disproportionate number of bathroom doors open inward? Like some kind of conspiracy? Do I have OCD?

[judi]

my daughter claims i am insane.
i'm the leading campaigner for wastebaskets placed conveniently outside the door of every public restroom in south florida.¹

¹the two sentences are related.

[fivver]

I used to commute on the local rapid rail and the days where I had to stand and hold onto one of the greasy metal bars I'd wash my hands BEFORE going potty.

[blurk]

Don't pee on your hands.

Just an idea.

But it seems to work.

[Siouxie]

judi, where can I join your campaign??? ;-)

[insomniac]

and i like those sinks with the big handles on the faucets you can turn off with your elbows!

i am a little afraid of being flattened while entering the men's room when the door opens suddenly outward and being backed over by a germophobe who's opened the door with his backside...

and you can use a paper towel to touch the doorknob,too, ...just saying...

[Moises Alou]

I see nothing wrong with peeing on your hands! I do it all the time and I have never had to wear batting gloves.

[Patchy the Squirrel]

I hate having to throw the used paper towel back into the bathroom trash can. I usually miss and have to go back, because I won't leave it on the floor.

[Meanie the Blue]

Judi, you are a citizen's hero! Let me shake your hand.

[mm]

But even if you wash your hands and get out of the bathroom without touching anything, eventually you're going to have to touch a doorknob somewhere...

[Patchy the Squirrel]

I can't believe I feel so strongly about this kind of sterility when I just spent a week camping and using dirty outhouses.

[Dr.Rickenstien]

Sorry, random sports reference but the guy did say he did it. Something about toughening the hands up. Of course, had Bartman known this he might never have interfered with Moises trying to catch that foul ball.

[Lairbo]

I remember when germs from pissy hands were the least of what you could get from doorknobs.

[Bãrön vønKlýff]

I'm with blurk on this one... I was always taught not to pee on my hands.

On a side note, you just have to love the crawl at the top of the page. One of the notes said, and I quote:

On GMA: More on the beef recall, take a procreation vacation.

HUH???

[DeskDiva]

*snork* @ blurk.

We ladies don't seem to have that issue. ;)

[Patchy the Squirrel]

Hopefully, Baron, unlike judi's post above, those two are unrelated.

[wickedwitch]

i volunteer at a very large, professional bingo hall. it is a know fact with the 'old-timers' that peeing on your fingers makes you lucky. IANMTU! i'm so lucky that the outer door to the ladies room is propped open all the time, otherwise i'd be depending on Depends.

[Siouxie]

oh and blurk...you made a funny ;-P

now shake!

[Bãrön vønKlýff]

Yeah, Diva... you ladies don't have that issue, because you have tha tissue.

[«LabSpecimen»]

Judi, I'm with you. They should require paper towels in ALL restrooms (although I carry a handkerchief JUST for that purpose), and a waste can near the door.

MM, from the time I get to work, the only doorknob I have to touch all day is the men's room. I don't touch another doorknob until I get home. And since I spend most evenings at home, then eliminating my need to touch a men's room door knob would be a significant impact for people like me.

[DeskDiva]

Um, not THAT kinda shake, blurk. ;-)

[Kelley Ritchey]

I'm just glad the Soap and Detergent Association is engaging in these important studies...I thought 76.2% of folks didn't wash up properly!

[Siouxie]

Baron, I hope you washed your hands before that simul!

*takes paper towel and hits post*

[blurk]

Whut??!!

Ok, I'll stop.

In a minute.

[DeskDiva]

Heh. Right.

*checks watch*

[blurk]

Did I type that out loud.

I meant to just think that.

[DeskDiva]

OK - A simul with blurk on THAT concept?!? *THUD*

*_________flatline______________*

[Siouxie]

*grabs duct tape*

ooooookkkkkkkkk!

[blurk]

Mary's gonna be mad at me.

[DeskDiva]

*revives*

Is that contractor grade, Siouxie? I think I'm gonna need it....

*sits up with goofy grin on her face*

[Mot the Hoople]

I love people who refuse to hold the handrail on an escalator then walk into the supermarket and grab the nearest cart without a qualm.

[DeskDiva]

Maybe, blurk, but [i]I'm[/i] sure as heck not!!

SECOND simul? GEEZ. It's gonna be a GOOD day. :-)

[Siouxie]

blurk, I'm tellin'!

hehe

[DeskDiva]

*sigh*

Preview italics!

[Dr.Rickenstien]

No kidding Mot! I had a friend like that in Waco. Except she would carry a scarf to wrap around the handle for the cart for shopping, but pick up the canned food or other items with bare hands. As if no one had ever come into contact with the goods she was purchasing.

[DeskDiva]

Oh, heck. Why do you think the Purell™ folks do such a booming business these days? My mother alone keeps the CEO in silk sheets.

Wait. That don't sound right....

[Meanie the Blue]

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh-CHOOOOO!!!!

Where'd everyone go?

[Siouxie *snot here*]

I dunno.

[Wolfsong]

Urine is generally sterile and harmless. It's the OTHER stuff ya gotta watch out for. E. coli anyone?

[Mot the Hoople]

Meanie, Does that sneeze signify anything? *Conjures up visions of typhoid Mary*.

[judi]

this is a completely unrelated issue (and one not appropriate for the blog), but YESSSSSS! fits how i feel right now.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/58057.html

i'm so happy.

[Siouxie]

judi's linky.

[Meanie the Blue]

Mot, nothing that nasty. My computer got a virus.

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

...spreading bacteria that infects millions of Americans each year with the cold, flu and other illnesses.

Scientific Geek Rant
Colds and the flu are caused by Viri, NOT bacteria.
/SGR

[Viri]

I blame the bacteria!

[blurk]

Non-scientific geek rant:

Each year millions of people get the flu and...are ya ready?...colds.

It happens. Last I heard it was called life.
Course, I spend half my life wadin' around in cow crap so maybe I have a different perspective.

/end Non-scientific geek rant

[Siouxie]

blurk, and the other half at the ranch, right?? ;-P

[blurk]

*HUGESNORK*

Siouxie, sounds like you've been in the Air Force.

[padraig]

The first comment on the ABC site was, "I have been urinating daily all my life and thus far have avoided peeing on my hands. Perhaps not everyone is so skillful."

That guy's posting on the wrong blog. DoubleD, kindly engrave that fellow an invitation!

[Siouxie]

LOL nah, blurk...just based on your delightful insights.

[ken in jax]

According to NPR one of the most germ infested things we come in contact with (beside Paris Hilton) is the handle on grocery carts. You got people pickin' their nose in the car on the way to the store. Then you have kids in poopy diapers being placed in the little seat contraption. It makes the bathroom door handle seem like the pinacle of cleanliness.

[Rover]

I'm just glad people are leaving me out of this for a change. Just cause I lick myself in strange places and eat the other guy's poo doesn't make me any less kissable dangit!

[DeskDiva]

Rover - there was a card about you on those "Some Ecards" last night. Just sayin'.

[Bethie]

Now, if they could just pass a law that makes it illegal for slobs to not wash their pissy hands, that would be helpful as well.

[judi]

ken: my grocery store has a container of wipey-thingies next to where they keep the carts, so you can disinfect the handle :)

[master of failure]

You're lucky, judi. My grocery store only has a display where they forgot to refill the wipey-thingies.

[wickedwitch]

and in my local grocery store, you are lucky to find a cart that doesn't have a used diaper in it.

[wickedwitch]

and judi, did you notice the defendants' lawyers name in your above referenced court case? how appropriate!

[Bethie]

They should make some kind of sanitizer in a convienient travel spray bottle. Or do they already?

[Eleanor]

So does mine, judi. First Albertson's had the wet thingys next to the carts and now all the grocery stores do.

I hate that flapping lid on the towel trash thingy, trying to flip it with the paper towel and get the towel to fall in at the same time is not as easy as it sounds.

I always wash my hands with anti-baterial soap when I come home from the grocery store.

[Eleanor]

Sheesh. While anti-baterial soap keeps away bats, anti-bacterial soap is better for germs. :)

[Kathybear]

Hey, folks, germs migrate from tissue to hands - or wrists if you're one of those "wrap-the-hand-in- toilet-paper" types. Bathrooms have germs, seats, floors (yes, guys, germs are on the floor and can climb up your pants leg) and everywhere people breath. Wash your hands, will ya?!!

[Tom]

Just make the doors so they have to be pushed going out, instead of pulled... that way you can just push them with your elbow.

[Ellasmom]

I am totally grossed out just reading over these comments and I can barely convince my fingers to touch the keyboard.

Can I get a plastic bubble now?

[Richard L Wise]

But what do you do if it’s a “one-sy?” Ya gotta have a lock or you can end up with an audience. Remember that old joke that began with the phrase, “They laughed as I sat down to play…..”

[Mike]

Here's a great option, StepNpull. It's a simple bracket that attaches to the bottom corner of any commercial latch less door and allows the user to open the door with their foot instead of their hand. There is a short demo video on the website. www.stepnpull.com