The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsEat your office lunch on the toilet seat?
"The authors discovered that an office setting might be worse for your health than toilet seats. Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, found the typical office desk harbors some 400 times more disease-causing bacteria than the average toilet seat." Reuters
How many times have we seen others eat their lunch right off their office desk? Next time, be kind and recommend they move their lunch to the toilet seat instead - it's cleaner.
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In microbiology, I took cultures of a doorknob, a toilet seat, and an office phone used by a secretary and several student assistants.
A week later, upon reviewing the culture, the office secretary bought a bottle of alcohol with which to daily scrub her phone.
There was some sort of mold growing on the doorknob.
The toilet seat was fairly clean. But it is still a smelly place to eat lunch. Much of taste comes from smell.
Posted by: oregano | August 8, 2005 10:15 PM