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Trash Cans and Bathroom Floors

Snopes did a piece in 2006 on Purses and E. Coli and concluded that women ROUTINELY set their purses on public restroom floors near the toilet and then later that same day they set the same purse on the table where they eat.

Regardless of gender, if you carry any kind of bag, don't put it on the bathroom floor if at all possible. If you are not urgently about to mess yourself, take a moment to think about where to put your bag before using the toilet.

I suggest you also wash hands before retrieving your bag if that's a reasonable thing to arrange. I'm aware that if the restroom is busy, that may not really work. Alternately, try to wipe yourself with one hand and grab your bag with the other. 

(This tends to only work with smaller bags and IF both hands are unimpaired and you trend moderately ambidextrous. I'm right handed but I am somewhat often asked if I'm a lefty or ambidextrous because I do more than average left-handed.)

If you must set it on the floor or grab it without washing up first, do something to disinfect your bag as soon as possible.

And public trash cans are not shelves or leaning benches. 

A leaning bench is designed to let you kind of rest without really sitting down and you see them in place like transit centers. Trash cans are designed to hold trash. These two things are not alike.

If you are putting your bag on top of a public trash receptacle to your left instead of the low wall two feet away to your right: How stupid are you people?

Do you spend ANY time thinking about germ control? If not, do you have a chronic cough? Why do you think that might be?

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