water bottles & germs Hi Mel

May 16, 2005

Mel my niece will be a resident doc next year and she will drink out of the

plastic bottle of water day after day that sits in her car. Gives me the

creeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe that? Her fiance will also be a

resident doc and they both laugh about germs...............They say the worst

thinkg is the basket in the shopping carts where kids sit and the shopping cart

handle as well as the doorknobs and public restrooms. Other than that they just

make fun of us when we mention germs.

melissa_hopp <hoppmel wrote:As previously mentioned...I've got a

bit of a germ phobe worry thing,

hee hee...however, I also hate to just throw those bottles away. I

heard some lady on one of those morning shows talking about it and

only half registered what she said. As I remember, of greatest

concern was keeping water in a water bottle for a long time at room

temp (ie a day or more) and sipping it over and over. If you keep it

cold you are okay. And you can wash and reuse the bottle a few

times. I don't think you can really get in and get them clean though,

so if I do this I don't do it for long. I'm not really crazy about

the sports bottle either - the lids/straws are just impossible to keep

clean. So I end up using disposable ones and recycling...then I don't

feel quite so bad. And as Jiraph mentioned - we also freeze them and

they keep things cool, the kids love drinking that really cold water

too! I did experiment with one of those cooler things with a spout &

cups, but the water had a funny taste coming out of it...I suppose it

would work well for juice, but we limit juice...perhaps iced tea?

m

May 16, 2005

ooooo...those shopping carts give me the creeps, even worse when my

daughter decides to lick the handle...ick!!! I carry handywipe

thingies and wipe them down (as people entering the store look at me

knowing I'm whacky - but do you know how many people bring their sick

kids to Target to fill perscriptions??!!)...wanted to wipe her tongue

the day she licked the handle, but didn't, and she didn't come down

with any dread diseases. phew...

Schools are probably full of germs, too...I console myself with the

thought that it offers the kids some protection to be exposed to

stuff...

m

May 16, 2005

my mother really takes the cake. parents are Catholic, and in the Catholic mass

they have this nice tradition of at one point in the mass giving others the sign

of peace. So, you are supposed to turn to everyone around you and shake hands

and say, " peace be with you. " I think it's a great thing. My mother chooses not

to participate because she doesn't know what germs are on people's hands!! OMG!

I told her, at least when coming to church people are putting their best " hand "

forward, but she goes shopping and pushed a cart, and holds onto rails going

down public walkways. I have told her all this and she gives me that look with

the nose up in the air like she doesn't hear me. I don't attend church often

myself, but when I do I told her I am too embarrassed to sit near her.

arrghhhhhhh.

Blessings,

Chanda

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GeminiDragon

Monday, May 16, 2005 1:21 PM

Re: water bottles & germs Hi Mel