Gross Shopping Carts Tweak Your Inner Germaphobe
As I had blogged previously, I’m not germaphobic. But I think its hilarious to see people who are germaphobic get all tweaky over touching things they perceive as gross- like the door handle to the bathroom at work, elevator buttons or shopping carts. At the grocery store by my house there are two stations to disinfect shopping cart handles.
These cart handles have what on it???!
And if you read this article at LJWorld here, you may need to buy a case of Purell.
55 percent of handles on grocery carts were contaminated with bodily fluids (such as urine and saliva), and 21 percent showed traces of blood.
My infant son loves to chew on shopping cart handles. That explains the saliva. I’m not sure, but I would guess that the blood and urine comes from the latenight hobo shopping cart races that are all the rage these days.
I’m a germaphobe but I tend to keep it in check and pretend for the sake of others that there’s nothing wrong. 😀
When I had my first child, my sister suggested giving her a bowl of dirt every day, because she was gonna eat at least that much in a normal day anyway, and this way at least you know where it came from.
Jennifer
Yes, I know just what you mean. I have had to relax my own comfort zones of sanitation when it comes to my son too. He chews the sides of tables at the restaurant, where lord-knows-who put dirty hands on it, and I caught him chewing on my sneaker yesterday. I stand in a men’s room in that sneaker! I shuddered, but I tell myself that it might boost his immunity.
21% have traces of blood? WTF? Human? Perhaps stuff that leaks out of the meat packages, I’d hate to try and find a reason human blood gets on shopping carts.
At night, I’m convinced that zombies go shopping for BRAINS.