Not-So-Nifty Gadgets
Lately since I started working at the nursing home and going to school for nursing, I've been getting increasingly paranoid about germs and hygeine and what have you. I was at the grocery store and I had to pick up a bottled of hand sanitizer because I kept thinking about the handles of the grocery cart and my imagination was going CRAZY thinking of all the grodiness the hands that had been touching it before mine might have been exposed to. It's driving me nuts.
Then I stumbled across this little gadget and my mind nearly exploded. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO KNOW? Ohhhh my goodness. Too much. That is just too much. It's not as though the heat impression is going to last as long as the germs are alive (they can live a long time, guys), so it's not like you have any new handy information. It's not as though it's any more "safe" when it's not showing a thermal imprint of their bum. And personally, I don't like my toilet seat preheated for me. Not one bit. So basically it just screams out this glowing flourescent reminder of someone else's ass. And that is out of control...
Then I stumbled across this little gadget and my mind nearly exploded. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO KNOW? Ohhhh my goodness. Too much. That is just too much. It's not as though the heat impression is going to last as long as the germs are alive (they can live a long time, guys), so it's not like you have any new handy information. It's not as though it's any more "safe" when it's not showing a thermal imprint of their bum. And personally, I don't like my toilet seat preheated for me. Not one bit. So basically it just screams out this glowing flourescent reminder of someone else's ass. And that is out of control...
Labels: awkward, Paranoia, rant, this is all wrong
posted by mags at 6:06 PM
5 Comments:
When you have kids, I will get you this: http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=533896&parentCategoryId=85184&categoryId=85218&subCategoryId=86219 or maybe you could get it for my baby as the germaphobe aunt. :) I will also get you these: http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=534489&parentCategoryId=85184&categoryId=85218&subCategoryId=86219 and these: http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=6624&parentCategoryId=85184&categoryId=85218&subCategoryId=86219
There are plenty of products to calm the fears of paranoiacs, especially parental ones. But I have to say, that toilet seat thingy takes the cake.
WHERE and HOW do you stumble upon that?
Hmmm. You know I don't have any kids hidden away in the basement, right?
But yeah, I like to surf random blogs. One thing lead to another. Friend of a friend of a friend kind of thing.
do u think the toilet seat is really meant to make you think its 'safer' to sit when its not glowing? cause i would think that the best use of that seat is never being surprised by finding a warm toilet seat with your own bum, which grosses all of us out, even though its not any dirtier.
it was created by Canadians. go figure.
It's the kind of thing that you buy if you're really nosy, b/c it's not actually helpful, like you said, it merely provides curious knowledge. It's the kind of thing that you'd see on an infomercial.
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