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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:40:59 -0000, "Mrs Bonk" <arse@cuteyspamout.com>
wrote:
>Nan wrote:
>> I watched a show once that had a scientist state that the dirtiest
>> area of a public toilet is the floor. I say, just do not lick the
>> floor ;-)
>> All this sanitizing is making kids immune systems too weak to fight
>> off the bugs they're encountering everywhere else.
>
>As babies mine put everything they could hold into their mouths - as babies
>and toddlers do. Obviously if something was particularly grubby or had been
>dropped into something unsavoury then that would have special treatment but
>most of the toys were outgrown before they had a wash to be then passed on.
>I've a few toys still here that the grandchildren have played with and I
>never thought to wash any of them.
Same here. I think I sanitized my daughter's pacifier once, when I
saw the cat batting it around on the floor. Who knows how often the
cat *really* played with it ;-)
The truth is, germs aren't all *bad*, and aggressive eradication of
all of them has severe drawbacks.
>I wonder how dirty coins are. They are handled by many and end up in all
>sorts of places yet the women at my local fruit machine hall , if they cannot
>get the coin into the slot , pop coins into their mouths then put them in
>the machine. By rights they should all be dead!
Well, I know from my stints at cashiering that money is filthy. When
I would wash my hands during a break, the soapy water from my hands was
always brown-ish.
Nan
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