It happened again! Man grabs cookies with his hands!

[BobPSU92]

I'm in the Lufthansa Business Class Lounge at Frankfurt Airport, and a man just grabbed two chocolate chip cookies with his hands. The tongs were right there! What's the matter with our society?!



On the plus side, I am somewhat pacified in that I got a good latte macchiato here.

 

[garw]

I just swilled a bottle of Purell to gird my system against similar horrors I anticipate today. The depravity of it all.

 

[BobPSU92]

I just swilled a bottle of Purell to gird my system against similar horrors I anticipate today. The depravity of it all.

Smart move before venturing out into our depraved world.

 

[psuro]

A few things:

1. This only seems to happen around you Bob. It. Must. Be. The. Culture. You. Exude.

2. Let us know when someone picks up pudding with their hands. Or soup. Or a live lobster from a tank. That would be interesting.

3. How do you keep getting into these First Class and Business Class lounges?

4. How do you keep getting back into Germany? Do you have a photo of Andrea Merkel with a barnyard animal?

 

[BobPSU92]

A few things:

1. This only seems to happen around you Bob. It. Must. Be. The. Culture. You. Exude.

2. Let us know when someone picks up pudding with their hands. Or soup. Or a live lobster from a tank. That would be interesting.

3. How do you keep getting into these First Class and Business Class lounges?

4. How do you keep getting back into Germany? Do you have a photo of Andrea Merkel with a barnyard animal?

1. I am a walking culture problem.

2. I will keep my eyes open. All are likely.

3. It's not who you know, it's how much you're willing to pay them.

4. I'm like David Hasselhoff in Germany.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

I'm in the Lufthansa Business Class Lounge at Frankfurt Airport, and a man just grabbed two chocolate chip cookies with his hands. The tongs were right there! What's the matter with our society?!



On the plus side, I am somewhat pacified in that I got a good latte macchiato here.

It's a dilemma I face at all gigantic cookie plates. If I can get a cookie without touching another I'd leave behind, I'd rather do that than grab the tongs that 100 hands touched before. But grabbing those tongs the eating my cookie essentially does the same as those 100 hands touching my cookie because now my hand touched them all. Might as we'll be touching a public doorknob then eating finger food.

But if I can't get my pristine cookie without touching another, it's tongs every time.

The one that always gets me is the dental hygentist who puts on a fresh pair of gloves for every cleaning and then immediately touches the lamp handle they touch several times per cleaning with their dirty gloves. The tools are autoclaved, that handle isn't. Gross!

 

[demlion]

1. I am a walking culture problem.

2. I will keep my eyes open. All are likely.

3. It's not who you know, it's how much you're willing to pay them.

4. I'm like David Hasselhoff in Germany.

This is Outrage Bob in a few years. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...dvTAhUsxoMKHZ1yCawQMwhCKBQwFA&iact=mrc&uact=8

 

[mortadella25]

A few things:

1. This only seems to happen around you Bob. It. Must. Be. The. Culture. You. Exude.

2. Let us know when someone picks up pudding with their hands. Or soup. Or a live lobster from a tank. That would be interesting.

3. How do you keep getting into these First Class and Business Class lounges?

4. How do you keep getting back into Germany? Do you have a photo of Andrea Merkel with a barnyard animal?

He may be a member of ODESSA!

 

[interrobang]

There are more germs on a typical workplace keyboard than in the typical workplace toilet.

 

[mortadella25]

There are more germs on a typical workplace keyboard than in the typical workplace toilet.

Cell phones are the filthiest things going, because people never clean them.

 

[Frabjous]

Paper money is full of germs but no one seems to mind, for some reason.

 

[PennSt8er]

MM exposed his *junk* to those cookies.

 

[katchthis]

You should have traveled with KoKo and Harambe. They can actually use tools.

 

[Woodpecker]

He probably saw me scratch my ... self with the tongs.

 

[NittPicker]

It's a dilemma I face at all gigantic cookie plates. If I can get a cookie without touching another I'd leave behind, I'd rather do that than grab the tongs that 100 hands touched before. But grabbing those tongs the eating my cookie essentially does the same as those 100 hands touching my cookie because now my hand touched them all. Might as we'll be touching a public doorknob then eating finger food.

I find that to be funny too. People think they're being sanitary by using tongs which have been touched by who knows how many filthy hands. It's fascinating to people watch in a buffet restaurant. Diners use all types of serving utensils (tongs, spoons, forks) to load up their plates. Then they sit down and rip into their dinner roll with their bare hands. They may as well go lick the fingers of every other customer in the restaurant. Many such restaurants have sanitizer dispensers nearby but not a lot of people use them. I certainly do.

And something else which is just as bad is self service gasoline pump handles. Those thing never get cleaned and are touched by hundreds of people over the course of a day. That's why I keep sanitizer in my car.

Yeah, I know it's impossible to avoid all contaminated surfaces especially if you don't know they're contaminated. There's nothing wrong with making the effort.

 

[BobPSU92]

Paper money is full of germs but no one seems to mind, for some reason.

I use tongs to handle paper money.

 

[BobPSU92]

MM exposed his *junk* to those cookies.

And he probably touched his junk with his hands.

 

[BobPSU92]

He probably saw me scratch my ... self with the tongs.

 

[Frabjous]

I use tongs to handle paper money.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ton...10&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=985#imgrc=gVlj7WHPjmsMEM:

Ya mean like this?

 

[Nitt1300]

I wouldn't touch those filthy tongs either

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

I like the draft beer machine in that lounge. You put your glass in there, push a button and it pours a perfect Beck's draft. I always pull the glass from the middle of the matrix to ensure nobody else touched it and I don't give a $hit how many others I touch because I have always "just washed my hands".

 

[lionlurker]

At first, I thought that the man grabbed nookie with his hands. Which sort of makes sense.

 

[BobPSU92]

At first, I thought that the man grabbed nookie with his hands. Which sort of makes sense.

I use tongs.

 

[psuro]

I use tongs.

Tongs or tongues?

 

[Nitt1300]

I use tongs.

Which is just why I'm not touching those things

 

[Mace54]

You'll all be one of the first to die when the mega-strain virus hits. Those who have built their immunity by staying away from that hand washing junk will all rule the world.

 

[lionlurker]

I use tongs.

Learning to use them for this purpose takes quite a bit of practice.

 

[dawgduice]

My favorite is seeing someone "not washing his hands" from the mens room THEN affectionally touching his wife or girlfriend
I would love to say something, then again I live in a "right to carry state". So there is that.

 

[BobPSU92]

Learning to use them for this purpose takes quite a bit of practice.

I'm highly skilled.

 

[fairgambit]

I find that to be funny too. People think they're being sanitary by using tongs which have been touched by who knows how many filthy hands. It's fascinating to people watch in a buffet restaurant. Diners use all types of serving utensils (tongs, spoons, forks) to load up their plates. Then they sit down and rip into their dinner roll with their bare hands. They may as well go lick the fingers of every other customer in the restaurant. Many such restaurants have sanitizer dispensers nearby but not a lot of people use them. I certainly do.

And something else which is just as bad is self service gasoline pump handles. Those thing never get cleaned and are touched by hundreds of people over the course of a day. That's why I keep sanitizer in my car.

Yeah, I know it's impossible to avoid all contaminated surfaces especially if you don't know they're contaminated. There's nothing wrong with making the effort.

When I am going out to dinner and anyone suggests a buffet, I agree but tell them I need to get dressed for dinner 1st.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

I'm in the Lufthansa Business Class Lounge at Frankfurt Airport, and a man just grabbed two chocolate chip cookies with his hands. The tongs were right there! What's the matter with our society?!



On the plus side, I am somewhat pacified in that I got a good latte macchiato here.

That's a pretty nice lounge - I believe they have showers there so you can wash the peasant scum off before you get on the plane. Also the food is pretty good (good beer goes without saying) Are you visiting or leaving Europe?

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

MM exposed his *junk* to those cookies.

WILL U DROP UR CHIP ON IT?

 

[ILLINOISLION]

Was in the American Admiral's Club in John Wayne Airport (Orange County) Wed afternoon on the way back to Chicagoland.

They had a plastic container with three levels of cookies.....with tongs available. The problem was there was a lift up front door to access each level / tray of the different cookies. So everyone's grubby paws might not have been touching the cookies, but everyone's grubby fingerprints were all over every little door handle.

And yes, I used my clean left hand to grab cookies without using the plastic tong while my previously clean right hand joined the hundreds of others that earlier on Wed also held the drawer knob(s). Great design. Worse: the cookies on the third level that looked like chocolate chip cookies were, in fact, actually raisin cookies. Now THAT was disgusting!

 

[Marylovesthelions]

I'm in the Lufthansa Business Class Lounge at Frankfurt Airport, and a man just grabbed two chocolate chip cookies with his hands. The tongs were right there! What's the matter with our society?!



On the plus side, I am somewhat pacified in that I got a good latte macchiato here.

 

[BobPSU92]

That's a pretty nice lounge - I believe they have showers there so you can wash the peasant scum off before you get on the plane. Also the food is pretty good (good beer goes without saying) Are you visiting or leaving Europe?

It is a nice lounge. I left Europe today (in-flight Wi-Fi now).

PUBLIC. SHOWERS.

 

[Marylovesthelions]

On the brighter side, scientists now say that eating boogers is healthy.

 

[BobPSU92]

Was in the American Admiral's Club in John Wayne Airport (Orange County) Wed afternoon on the way back to Chicagoland.

They had a plastic container with three levels of cookies.....with tongs available. The problem was there was a lift up front door to access each level / tray of the different cookies. So everyone's grubby paws might not have been touching the cookies, but everyone's grubby fingerprints were all over every little door handle.

And yes, I used my clean left hand to grab cookies without using the plastic tong while my previously clean right hand joined the hundreds of others that earlier on Wed also held the drawer knob(s). Great design. Worse: the cookies on the third level that looked like chocolate chip cookies were, in fact, actually raisin cookies. Now THAT was disgusting!

 

[Locolion]

1. I am a walking culture problem.

2. I will keep my eyes open. All are likely.

3. It's not who you know, it's how much you're willing to pay them.

4. I'm like David Hasselhoff in Germany.

My favorite is seeing someone "not washing his hands" from the mens room THEN affectionally touching his wife or girlfriend
I would love to say something, then again I live in a "right to carry state". So there is that.

I never wash my hands. Ever.
Bob- where do u go in Deutschland?

 

[Pocky]

I'm in a hotel about 100 nights a year and feel as if I've seen it all. A hotel tv remote is about as sanitary as the floor of a Times Square peep show booth. I know a guy who travels with sandwich bags to put the remote in.

 

[artsandletters]

There are more germs on a typical workplace keyboard than in the typical workplace toilet.

Good. I don't use either.