Grocery cart handles EWWWW!

**kimlovescats** · 02-08-2007, 03:21 PM

Pam, I AM a germophobic!!! I know this sounds crazy, but when I shop at Wal-Mart, I drive the cart with my wrists!!! Less likely to put my wrists on my mouth / face than my hands!

THEN, as soon as I get in the car, I use antibacterial hand cleaner, all over my hands, wrists, and steering wheel. THEN, as soon as I get home, I wash with hot soapy water up to my elbows! Extreme? Maybe ... but I hate other people's germs!!! If anyone wants to hear more precautions, I think I could write a book on them!

Oh, I would love to have one of those covered things for Jenna to use in the shopping cart, but I know her lazy parents wouldn't bother with it!

Oh ... also, if I have a coat on, I pull the sleeves down under my wrists for extra protection and padding!

**sandragonfly** · 02-08-2007, 03:35 PM

not worried.. never thought of that.. I don't shop A LOT (only household, college student, picky eater) at once

so I usually go in without cart -- but if I touch anything that are touched publicly, I always feel so dirt to wash.. I wash a lot though anyway.

**chocolatepuppy** · 02-08-2007, 08:03 PM

It's not so much the germs on the carts, door handles, etc, that I worry about but the other 'stuff' I heard they find on them!

**Alysser** · 02-08-2007, 08:31 PM

I'm not to much of a germaphobe, but the most digusting thing in the world to me is chewed gum. I hate gum because of it. It's just gross when people spit it out on the ground, or if it's under desks, etc. I'm a gumaphobe.

You can NEVER be too careful. My mom doesn't want me to wheel the grocery cart, all these years I thought it was because of my clumsiness until I asked her why a few days ago and she told me this same reason. I always try and avoid using public bathrooms and water fountains. I hate them. I wash my hands constantly in my own home, so I think I might be a bit of an extremist but it's staying that way.