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I smashed a huge one on me last night. It was the size of a butterfly.
Well,. that's what I thought the size looked lilke.
LOL @ germaphobe. I'm the same as you as far as people touching me.
I may be as bad as Howie though.
I have gotten better over the years because I know that I have to "function" in society.
My neighbor is always teasing me because I clean the coops with bleach as well. That's how I get lot of customers because other customers have told them how clean I am and how clean my set up is and cleanliness is their #1 concern when it comes to chickens and other animals. When the state vet came out to do my NPIP testing, he commented that he had never seen a chicken yard, chicken house, etc as clean as mine. He said that was a first and being as though I had over 200 animals.
My co-workers tease me about my cleanliness. They call me the Haz Mat Department. Anytime someone goes home sick, they call me in to clean their office . I"m like, "WHAT!"
Believe it or not & contrary to popular belief, it's VERY easy to live in my world. If you follow some of these few things that were taken from my list of 2999 ways to stay healthy, then you would be ok.
1. Don't walk through the area where a person has coughed or sneezed with his/her mouth wide open or did not cover their nose when sneezing.
2. Limit hand shaking to a very minimum.
3. Do not allow the cashier to give you your change back after she has sneezed and coughed in her mouth and touches your money.
4. Clean your office phone, light switch and door knob after a sick co-worker has visited your office and left his/her germs and then ban them from your office until they are no longer sick. Also spray your office with Lysol once they have left.
5. Make sure that visitors who are sick (cold, etc.) do NOT enter your home.
6. Use hand sanitizer after pumping gas, using a grocery cart, touching a door to enter a building, etc.
7. Do not eat out of the office snack bags after a co-workers has stuck his/her hand in the chip bag. You don't know where that hand has been.
8. Wear rubber gloves when doing chicken/animal chores.
9. Take green tea extract tablets every day.
10. Drink a cup of hot green tea EVERY DAY.
These are a few simple rules that I follow as far as human bio-security.
Follow these rules and the other 2000+ and you will have a long life of being healthy and staying out of the doctor's office and not calling in sick. This is a proven method that has worked for the past 17 years of my life. Oh, and you'll have enough sick time to give away to the your other sick co-workers who call in sick on a monthly basis because they didn't take my advice.
P.S. Mike, there ARE some days, that I'm afraid to breath. I don't know who has exhaled breaths of (germy) air right before I have arrived in that particular space.
Julie I swear, you & I are twins when it comes to the "germ" phobia thing!
I'm seriously a n a l when it comes to hand washing. But y'all would never be able to work where I do.
I'm seriously a n a l when it comes to hand washing. But y'all would never be able to work where I do.
ETA: they changed a n a l to picking. Really???
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After reading all of the "germaphobic" post, it would be kinda funny to see everyone
work one night in a prison. There would definately be a lot of hand sanitizer used.
We put on latex gloves to make the rounds when I worked for the S.O. here and
by the time we made it back to the front, blue gloves would be yellow with crud.
Imagine getting that off of your hands when the gloves sometimes broke.
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They bought us black gloves this time so they don't look so bad. Your so right about the blue ones they get nasty We also dont use liquid hand sanitizer anymore because the inmates will drink it to get drunk.
we now have hand sanitizer wipes and the of course a lot of us carry the pocket ones. Most people don't realize how nasty inmates are.
Just checked my birds, and the EEs that I put in the tractor some time back have passed some blue styro insulation that they ate a looong time ago while living in the shop.