A New Pet Peeve Discovered...
Sep. 22nd, 2006 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzA lady I was working with had a nasty habit of licking her finger and then turning pages of documents we were reviewing. I've seen people do this before, but for some reason it never really hit me how disgusting this can be.
The documents were not freshly printed, but months old and had potentially been handled and written on by several people. The documents were also used in a laboratory setting, which means who knows what they may have been exposed to over time. I kept thinking of every person who didn't wash their hands that reviewed those or whatever and then watched this lady just lick her fingers every three or four sheets.
I admit that I have done this before, but usually only with freshly printed materials that I printed myself and picked up from the copier. This experience has changed that for me.
Ewwww....
The documents were not freshly printed, but months old and had potentially been handled and written on by several people. The documents were also used in a laboratory setting, which means who knows what they may have been exposed to over time. I kept thinking of every person who didn't wash their hands that reviewed those or whatever and then watched this lady just lick her fingers every three or four sheets.
I admit that I have done this before, but usually only with freshly printed materials that I printed myself and picked up from the copier. This experience has changed that for me.
Ewwww....
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Date: 2006-09-22 03:56 pm (UTC)If I'm looking at a magazine at our local library, I'm not going to suck on the pages, but I might occasionally moisten a fingertip to more easily turn them.
Fact is, there are all kinds of common germs (viruses, bacteria, fungal infections, etc) around us all the time: In food, in water, on surfaces, in the air, and so on. It's why we have our immune systems. New things like colds and flus will come along from time to time, and our immune systems eventually learn to cope with those germs also.
As for the "laboratory setting" you mention, if there's a possibility of contamination with blood or other body fluids, I think your co-worker might wish to be informed of that. But for the most part I wouldn't worry too much.
Just my humble opinion.
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Date: 2006-09-22 04:44 pm (UTC)