Coughs and sneezes spread diseases

I’ve got a nice shirt that I spilt an Indian meal down, there is one spice that will not come out. I’ve started using thin rubber gloves at work, much more civilised.

Agreed mate! I don't see the point in reusing a dirty handkerchief over and over again. 

My Grandad has an old Rayburn with a line above it which he hangs his handkerchiefs on with pegs, to dry them after washing them. His house is like it's from the 1930s... time moved on but somehow it forgot his house.

Stepping in there is like walking through time.

If I was in the habit of tinkering with cars, I think I would be the other way. I reckon I would spend more time cleaning the oil off my hands with the likes of Swarfega, than actually tinkering on the cars. 

Food on my hands doesn't really bother me, although that's not to say that I enjoy the sensation of it. What does bother me is if I end up getting food on clean clothes, especially if it's something like soup or sauce.

I just find tissues cleaner, after use they are disposed of, I can’t see the point of putting an infection in your pocket.

I think my other dislike is a childhood memory of a large pan on the stove with hankies boiling n it.

Slightly going off-piste, my hands often get oily working on cars, I can tolerate that. What drives me insane is having food on my hands. I’m the person who eats a pizza with a knife and fork.

My Grandad always uses a hankie. He never leaves home without them and always lectures me on keeping one on myself haha love him he's a great bloke.

I keep tissues on me and have disinfectant, medicine and a first aid kit in the car, just in case.

Ewww!

I will confess that I do use hankies, but I also make a point of washing them and disposing of them before they get threadbare. I would not dream of leaving my house without a clean hanky and a bottle of hand sanitiser.

I felt a bit queasy reading some of that, I won’t even have hankies in the house, since the advent of tissues there is no need for them.

We have an elderly gentleman come into the village pub, without fail he brings the same hanky out and blows his nose, the hanky is grey ( was once white) and bits fall off of it. He sort of uncreases it, I’ve had to go to the toilets before as I was retching. The staff put his change on the bar top.

Yuck! 

I remember it being drummed into from early childhood to always cover my mouth when I was about to cough or sneeze, and to always ensure I had at least one clean handkerchief or a pack of tissues. In the event that I forgot, to sneeze or cough into the crook of my elbow, as opposed to my hand.

The lack of thought demonstrated by some people is so inconsiderate.

Whilst I'm not germ-phobic as such, I feel equally as repulsed when I see people spitting in public, maybe because they have a bad taste in their mouth, or need to cough up a load of mucus. Why they cannot do it into a tissue (and then sanitise their hands) is beyond me.

When my son was young, he would sometimes get rather snuffly. As a result, I remember frequently following him around with tissues to wipe his nose. As soon as he was old enough, I drummed into him the same message(s) that my parents had drummed into me.

agreed, this is one thing i hate.
one time i was walking through town and passed a guy who sneezed directly into my face casually as he walked past with all his spittle going in my face, he carried on as if that was normal in society.... i obviously got ill the day after. 

i believe the common cold is a test of stupidity in society.... this common cold, it would be extinct long ago if people had any sense, but people are dumb and keep doing stuff like sneezing in each others faces and not staying to themselves when they are ill.

on monday i went to kickboxing class and this guy was sneezing and coughing and clearly ill.... like, seriously, its kickboxing, were gonna be in physical contact, he shouldnt be in there ill he will spread it. youd think people would know this but people seem to be pretty dumb.

It's scary isn't it. People like that are why I try not to go out during the winter months when bugs are rife and why I continue to wear a mask.

When I see someone do that I nearly scream out "Just cover your mouth!" 

It's scary.

Well, I remember when covid started, there was a lady who was shopping for clothes, and then she sneezed, and I saw snot traveling about 2 meters or 6 feet onto all the clothes! I was absolutely morified! I didn't understand why she couldn't sneeze into a sleeve or something. Why dirty all the clothes with so many boogers and germs? I recoil when I think about it now.  

I’m shuddering too. Yuck!

It really annoyed me during the pandemic when people would walk around with masks covering their mouth but not their nose. Simply cannot understand it.