So, you say well don't shake hands with them, I don't but I have to open the doors and touch the railings and so on.
As bad as that is, the worst thing about mens rooms is the floors around the urinals. First off, urinals are the worst designed mass produced product in the world. They are a total failure at preventing splash back and drip. No user of one with a functioning brain will get close enough to one to cut down on the floor puddle drip issue. So there we are standing in filth, and tracking it out spreading disease, or the food products for disease everywhere we walk. Surly the carpet of your house has a cocktail of piss borne germs from timbuktoo on it. Then there's fast food restaurants advertising to kids and the urnals are so high Timmy can't use it, or you find him holding onto it or leaning into it in the process.
Those damn socialist commie contries in north europe have already solved it. Go to Germany or Sweden in the heavy traffic facilities something like the photo. Note the grate to stand on. It's not perfect, but it's a step above the little slice of barnyard in McDonalds.
How do you feel about 'the trough'?
ReplyDeleteWe had trough's in my grade school, rarely seen them since. Excellent idea, for the most part I say they are far better at controlling the mess than urinals.
DeleteReminds me of the old joke. Two guys are in a public bathroom and one starts washing his hands while the other guy starts to walk out. The first guy asks, "Aren't you going to wash your hands? In the Navy they taught us to wash our hands after going to the bathroom." The other guy says, "In the Air Force they taught us not to piss on our hands!!"
ReplyDeleteKukkuri, funny, but I still don't want to shake hands. Reminds me of a comedian bit, the guy going on about this very issue, not washing hands and all the germs spread, "so why don't we just rub our gooters together - same thing."
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ReplyDeleteThe johns in Lautzenhausen - pissin against the wall were the same as in Korea - Thailand was a bomb site cermanic hole in the floor. The big problem in both Germany and Korea was the fucking smell!
I take a hot shower every morning about 0630 and wash the equipment most throughly - So, I know that my dick is clean when I touch it.
And I agree with Kulkuri - You were trained not to piss on your hands while in basic at Lackland - You were not a Marine.
Having covered that; Let me recommend a book - Sand In The Wind - a novel about a Marine rifle company in Vietnam. I bought it back in 1975 while stationed at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Air Base. Great read.
Made me thankful for the Air Force and three years in Germany and three at Grisson AFB, In before going over to South-East-Asia.
Ron
Ron, "I take a hot shower........... I know that my dick is clean when I touch it." Ron, it's good that your tool is clean but when exchanging microbes via a handshake having a sterile weapon is useless at protecting you from one who hasn't washed their hands since picking their nose and taking a dump.
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