TheInfamousJ
Nov 17th 2010 6:09PM
This may make me horrible, but I leave my used underwear outside of ziplocs. (A slightly passive aggressive move.) I've only once had my luggage hand searched. I was in the UK. They have gloves.

True, they have on gloves. But think of how many pieces of luggage those SAME GLOVED hands go through. What's in the 20 bags before yours is also now in your bag as well as the next 20 bags behind yours. So they touch your used underwear, they touch the next person's used underwear, etc... But it's not just used items. They may touch your camera, your make-up, your bottled water you couldn't carry onto the plane - all with the same gloves they used to touch so man other's things. YUCK...

You're not horrible but just think about it.

It drives me crazy when I have to go into the court houses and the court officers have on their protection (gloves) that they use to search everyone's bag. And I mean they dig into the women's purses as if digging for gold. Meanwhile, you're going through the metal detector and your bag is behind you being dug into with those same unclean gloves they have been using all morning.

Or think about this. When you go to the post office to post your envelope or package, look at the blue glove they wear. Those gloves are used to keep their hands free from all kinds of germs coming through their window. But they use those same gloved hands to give you your stamps, or your change. Ideally, it would be great if they would change those gloves ever so often.

Imagine if your doctor used the same gloves s/he used on the patient before coming to you. You're not terrible but just think about those gloves.

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