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Originally Posted by xinerevelle
I want to know why all of these people are travelling with toothbrushes just lying around in their toiletry bag without some sort of protective cover on them. At least a baggie or something! I've had a small toothbrush head cover for years (yes, I wash it) and when I got married I bought one for Mr. Xine. I can't imagine just letting it roll around on the inside of a bag -- yuck!
I always ask for clean gloves if one (or more) of my bags are being searched. As many others have said, I don't know whose dirty laundry (or other stuff) they've been through before searching my bag (& I'll usually say that if they seem to not want to change gloves). Some screeners don't seem to mind the request to change, others roll their eyes & sigh but do change them. |
Originally Posted by secretbunnyboy
While I can understand the desire of some here to aggravate TSAers, some people (e.g. the above) are just blowing things out of proportion.
No, you shouldn't lick your dirty gloves, but "touching stuff" is not contaminating yourself. The world is not a sterile laboratory and winding yourself up about hypothetical risks at a security checkpoint isn't going to help you on the other five hundred occasions you touch something every day or the food you eat. My god, haven't you looked inside a commercial kitchen? If the risks of "cross contamination" of dirty laundry were so bad, then chambermaids and laundry workers would all be dead after a month on the job. No-one's going to die from walking barefoot across a floor that shoes have stepped on - for example, hundreds of millions of Muslims do it every day in mosques with no apparant negative effects. Relax, people! I'd be more than willing to put money on the fact that more than one person has become ill from some kind of cross contamination at an airport checkpoint, especially those travelers whose health is already compromised. |
Originally Posted by MikeMpls
Relax yourself. I often have food in my carryon and don't want someone opening it with the same gloves they used to paw through someone else's dirty scivvies.
I could care less what standards you set for inpsections of your own luggage. I'll apply my standards. Cheers, J |
Originally Posted by doober
I'd be more than willing to put money on the fact that more than one person has become ill from some kind of cross contamination at an airport checkpoint
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Originally Posted by jcf27
Has anyone's health been affected by these actions ?? Worse yet, has anyone die?
Are there that many germophobics out there?? Just curious.... Cheers, J Are there that many germophobic TSO's out there?? Just curious, Cheers, 17d |
Originally Posted by secretbunnyboy
Oh, I'm sure. I'm also sure that people get sick from "cross contamination" when car parking attendants don't use a new pair of gloves between touching each hand and steering wheel. The world is not a sterile environment and there's no point in trying to introduce hospital practices into every sphere of life in some futile attempt to make it one.
Interesting that you use this example. After our car is parked in "valet," I certainly do take an antibacterial wipe to the usually-touched surfaces. --LG |
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