Do you wipe?
Full disclosures first: A. I have jet lag and B: I own a stock that sells a brand of sanitizing hand wipe. That said, I can fully disclose that I'm the crazy woman sitting next to you on the plane that is using sanitized hand wipes on her seat, seat pocket, and seat back tray. And if you'd let me I'd use them on you(rs) too. Yes. I. Would. I have good reasons for this. I've known flight attendant’s who have told me about the disgusting things they see on planes that involve snot and vomit and poop. Did you know that segments of a flight are also called legs? So a plane flying from Atlanta to D.C. then goes on to say Detroit and back to Atlanta. And these planes that do these segments or legs do not get cleaned in between legs. Let me repeat that, they don't clean between their legs! And so yes, I have a problem with things that don't clean in between their legs.
Once I arrive in a hotel I drop my bags and pull out my sanitizing wipes. I don't care if it's a $500 a night or $70 a night hotel, they all get the same treatment. A fresh sanitizing wipe for: Phone, tables, faucet, counters, etc.. Two for the toilette area. No offense to any hotel maintenance staff that so diligently do their jobs but humans' are a disgusting breed of mammal that are basically waste factories and I need to defend myself against mammal fluid waste.
So for a long time I kept my wiping to myself. It's not that I was ashamed of wiping it's just that so much had been made of people about people who suffer with OCD. I think maybe it was after Jack Nicklson made a movie about a man with OCD or it just became the psycho-babble for the moment. I just never talked about it and suffered through the gawking and snickering from my aisle mates on planes. Then I met someone who asked for a wipey for her seatback tray. "That's such a good idea." She said. And I felt like a Mormon. I mean I felt happy to have helped another person be clean. But now I'm thinking everyone knows to wipe themselves, cause this last trip I took I saw several people wiping.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the airlines had little plastic things that went over the seat back tray's? It could be like little rolls of that doctor exam office paper or like the paper towel rolls that zip off in lavatories. There ya' go, a million dollar idea. It could be called jet rag. You are welcome.
Published on September 26, 2012 15:36
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