LilMsFoodie

This thread can't possibly be for real but it is highly amusing. I think we should award the "Where is Howard Hughes when we need him" award to diazkris. :

placeu2

I just keep running a commercial through my mind as I read this thread.

Guy is looking at a new car on a sales lot when a couple approaches with obvious interest. As they get close he leans down and licks the driver side door handle. I love that commercial!

Everybody has issues I guess. My answer to the original question: germ freak

Tiff

I'm with you Kal.

This does however remind me of humorous story...
A friend of mine was at the airport with his wife and their two young boys. They've got them hand in hand, being very careful, etc. and so forth. When while they are waiting in line to board the plane, he is holding the hand of his two year old, he glancing down at him smiling to see that his little boy has mouth open and his tongue on one of the divider posts next to the line of people boarding. He was just horrified.
You have to know my friend, he is somewhat of a clean freak, but that story always makes me laugh.
Personally, while staying clean, and being somewhat cautious, I try NOT to think about all the germs out there, especially while in a hotel, alas I would never being able to fall asleep if I did!

Safe journey to all.

Leona

Annabel,
Can you just tell us where on the plane you do sit, if not on the seat?

That's got to make it pretty difficult to fasten your seat belt.

easytraveler

Thank you, mrwunrfl, now I can go through the rest of the day, knowing my exact status as a quarter freak!

BTW,I don't obsess about the cracks in the hotel bathroom tile, in which cracks a kzillion germs reside.

Nor do I obsess when petting a cat that I am touching the cat's dander, which is another name for dry cat spit.

Yes, this is a troll post in my book. I wonder what diazkris will say or do if she knew that she can maintain food in her digestive system only because of the millions of germs that reside INSIDE of her?

We all have to coexist and, as the more recent guests on this earth, maybe we should respect the other critters a bit more. I once saw a marvellously explanatory diagram which put the entire billions of years lifecyle of the earth as a 12 hour clock. Human beings will be on earth something like 1/2 hour, between 4:30 and 5, whereas bacteria, viruses, and other small critters will be on earth a lot longer, something like between 3 and 8 o'clock. So, I think it's really the germs that are saying: "Let those humans live awhile, their time on earth is so short".

turn_it_on

RE: Leona's comment

I too was wondering where Annabel sits ("I don't sit on the seat in an airplane because it's discusting")...maybe she covers it with one of those keen car seat covers you can get at a flea market (or would she not go to something so discusting sounding as a flea market)? Maybe she has a little travel can of Lysol? And maybe she could go through the whole plane before takeoff and Lysol down the unkempt masses! Say 'aaahh'!

Itchin' for your love,
roxy

Marilyn

Oh Roxy, girl, your closing did give me my Monday chuckle.

k_999_9

The best part of this thread is that Annabel's responses get wackier and wackier each time.

And if she's right that rinsing the tub with hot water will "kill anything," I guess we're all OK with jumping into the community hot tub.

Scarlett

Kal, very funny

When my son was about 6 and we were driving behind a NYC bus, in the winter, he asked, Would you lick the back of the bus for One Million dollars?
Sort of reminds me of this~

FainaAgain

Annabel, if fecal masses can go up 20 feet in the air, and you flash toilet twice, I assume standing there, what happens? You inhale it?

And whis is it everybody says the sheets are clean? They are washed in the same laundry machine with the towels, and who knows what they were used for?

Ahhhh, what can give you a better feeling on Monday then to make a paranoid person even more paranoid >

diazkris

So I guess the consensus is I'm only 1/2 freak but still freak enough to win the Howard Hughes award. I'm not trolling and I'm defiantely not half as neurotic as Annabel. In fact, I've been known to taste the grapes at the grocery store before buying them and even follow the "five second rule" at times. I grew up with dogs and a cat. I guess everyone has things they are picky about and hotel rooms and bathrooms happen to be mine. Perhaps I have seen one too many Today shows with travel guy Peter Greenberg. Sorry to have ruined someone's breakfast and hope I didn't put a damper on your next hotel stay...

Marilyn

This thread reminds me of the one by Fussy Traveler some time ago asking if anyone else traveled with their own bedsheets. As I recall, FT defended her practice (despite staying in $3-400/night hotels) but then eventually admitted that she also did not like to use cloth napkins, which had nothing to do with their cleanliness, but rather with the contact of food with fabric. Okaaaaaay.....

I did a search to try to top it (it was on Other Topics) but I couldn't find the thread. Anyone?

Marilyn

Whoa, diazkris, you wear flip flops in the hotel shower which has presumably been cleaned with disinfectant, but you eat unwashed grapes and have been known to follow the 5 second rule? You're right, we all have our things we're picky about!

And really, no matter how neurotic or strange you are, there's always someone weirder!

diazkris

I mean ""definitely", Sorry Meetshare!

travleis

Scarlett: last week Jay Leno had a guy walking around in Manhattan asking passersby what they would be willing to do for $5.
A relatively normal looking guy volunteered to lick the bottom of the interviewer's shoe for $5. (And it was a legitimate full-tongue lick).

I'm guessing he's probably not related to Annabel.

Leona

OK, now THAT'S a freak.

Question's answered!

Anonymous

I think this thread doesn't have nearly enough discussion of icky stuff on airplanes, where people are packed so tightly and eat, sleep, drool, cough, etc. in recirculated air.

Hasn't anyone seen the studies of the quantity of germs on airplane seat-back trays being higher than the toilet seats, since they're cleaned less often?!

travleis

This was pointed out to Annabel in particular, but her response was that she doesn't sit on the airplane seats.
(I'm still trying to visualize how this is done, and how one avoids touching anything on a plane).

Kal

Parts of me have been known to levitate given certain stressful situations like germ exposure or flying. :-"

But I still have to click on a seabelt.

I kinda look like a Macy's Day parade float when the flight attendants lead me down the isle to my seat.

Marilyn

Maybe Annabel wears disposable rubber gloves on airplanes.