(Keep in mind that no one knows whether this experiment was done right or whether whatever grew on the plate was harmful or not. Wish I thought of it.)Īnd speaking of Petri dishes, the following was a bit disconcerting.Ī viral Facebook post from 2018 showed what happened when a woman named Nicole Ward left a Petri dish inside an electric hand dryer for three minutes and then incubated it for two days. Whenever you use a hand dryer in a public restroom just remember “It’d be more hygienic to let disease-ridden gibbons sneeze your hands dry"ĭr. And I'm not alone.Ī new study from the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University shows that hot-air dryers may be acting like bacterial bombs, shooting loads of spores from bathroom air directly onto your hands. There wasn't one of those hideous Petri dishes called electric hand dryers, although I would have dried my hands on barbed wire if forced to choose.
Not that I would have stayed long enough to use it, but there was one saving grace.
(Better idea for next time: use a plastic bag and duct tape around the neck like they do in mafia movies. Perhaps I survived because I wrapped a sweater tightly around my head (picture: Afghan women) to avoid inhaling whatever godforsaken microbes that were competing in a mad dash to enter my nasal passages. In fact, it was rather good, but I can't unsee that bathroom and have since avoided the restaurant like the plague (which was probably one of the pathogens growing in the bathroom). I washed (but did not dry) my hands and got the hell out of there as if Satan himself was chasing me. It would seem that the patrons thought that the term "Flushing" was nothing more than a neighborhood in Queens. It made subway toilets look like those pristine rooms where microchips are manufactured. The tiny bathroom looked like the place had hosted a bulimics retreat during a C. So last year when I was invited to dinner I figured I'd give it a try.īefore eating I needed to wash my hands, so it was off to the restroom, on which hangs a vaguely disturbing sign that reads: As in not in the last 40 years. Yet, people I know do and many tell me that the food is quite good. There is a bar/restaurant in my town called # and I rarely eat there.
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