Change your gloves, please!
Aug 26, 2006 | 3:39 pm
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Change your gloves, please!
Anyone ever asked a TSA inspector to put on fresh gloves?
I don't want gloves that might have been pawing through someone's dirty laundry & stinky underwear 2 minutes ago picking through my stuff, e.g. my toothbrush.
Can we make a habit of demanding that they don fresh gloves?
I want clean gloves on their hands for the same reason they're wearing them in the first place!!!
I don't want gloves that might have been pawing through someone's dirty laundry & stinky underwear 2 minutes ago picking through my stuff, e.g. my toothbrush.
Can we make a habit of demanding that they don fresh gloves?
I want clean gloves on their hands for the same reason they're wearing them in the first place!!!
Aug 26, 2006 | 3:47 pm
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Originally Posted by MikeMpls
Anyone ever asked a TSA inspector to put on fresh gloves?
I don't want gloves that might have been pawing through someone's dirty laundry & stinky underwear 2 minutes ago picking through my stuff, e.g. my toothbrush.
Can we make a habit of demanding that they don fresh gloves?
I want clean gloves on their hands for the same reason they're wearing them in the first place!!!
I don't want gloves that might have been pawing through someone's dirty laundry & stinky underwear 2 minutes ago picking through my stuff, e.g. my toothbrush.
Can we make a habit of demanding that they don fresh gloves?
I want clean gloves on their hands for the same reason they're wearing them in the first place!!!
BTW, TSA screeners have told me that they wear gloves only to protect themselves. I have responded that I do not give a rodent's rear end about them, but rather am concerned about my health.
Aug 26, 2006 | 3:49 pm
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Yep! Request 'em!!! I was in MIA juat after 9/11 on holiday and requested them back then. Of course, I was met with a dirty look and a "It's going to take a while". I said "No problem. I'm early. I'll wait." 
Aug 26, 2006 | 5:11 pm
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Both times they went through hand inspection, it was at ONT ( ^ ) they put on frsh gloves automatically. However this was a JetBlue Red-eye, so most going through security was for that flight.
Mark
P.S. ONT usually has REALLY good TSA people.
Mark
P.S. ONT usually has REALLY good TSA people.
Aug 26, 2006 | 5:16 pm
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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 germophobics out there??
Just curious....
Cheers,
J
Aug 26, 2006 | 5:40 pm
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Cool ... That was just a random thought as I was getting ready to leave for the airport. Didn't get inspected this time, but I will demand clean gloves when it happens, and so will my wife! 
Aug 26, 2006 | 5:57 pm
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Originally Posted by Mark5388916
Both times they went through hand inspection, it was at ONT ( ^ ) they put on frsh gloves automatically.
Aug 26, 2006 | 7:52 pm
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Originally Posted by mikeon
But they do get dirty, a lot. When you handle bags for 30 minutes, by the 30 minute mark, the fingertips of the gloves will be all yellow/green if you use the blue nitrile gloves. Also changes colors when it comes in contact with water and turns it yellow, so if person's hands get a bit sweaty, you can see the discoloration.
Aug 26, 2006 | 8:52 pm
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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 germophobics out there??
Just curious....
Cheers,
J