Nasty People With Nasty Habits

Just returned from a much needed weekend getaway with my family, that is my 2 nephews and my brother. We went to Sandusky, Ohio to Put-N-Bay which is a seaside community which is very much like a resort. It is an Island, we had to take the ferry to get there, it was very relaxing. But the thing that was noticeable to my brother and I(we both are in the nursing field, in different ways) is that when each of us went to the restrooms, he in the men's I in the ladies, was how many people came out and did not wash their hands. We both thought this was disgusting. The thing that really got us is when we were in a restaurant on the way back and again went to our respective lavatories and heard the people in the stalls next to us relieving themselves (#1 and #2) flush the commode and come right out of the bathroom, and see these same people at the food buffet with their hands all over the same utensils everyone is going to use to serve themselves. We both looked at these people in disgust!! Being a nurse now I find myself being much more aware of unsanitary conditions such as this. If people could only figure out that this is exactly how most people get sick and die they would take the time to wash their hands and do their part in stopping to spread these types of germs! Something as simple as handwashing could keep so many people from getting sick, especially at a food buffet where so many people are exposed. Things like this make me want to carry my own plastic gloves to the buffet, eventually I more than likely will if I continue to see Nasty People like this. Let's all do our part in stopping the spread of germs...WASH YOUR HANDS!....until the next blog