(Reuters) – Just when you thought filling up your car could not hurt any more, researchers may have found another reason to avoid touching the gas pump: germs.
Gas pump handles turned out to be the filthiest surface that Americans encounter on the way to work, according to a study released on Tuesday by Kimberly-Clark Professional, a unit of personal hygiene giant Kimberly-Clark Corp.
So this means that weird guy who wears earmuffs, goggles, overalls and lumberjack boots to cut his grass now needs rubber gloves at the gas pump? We all know one guy like that, who follows every single safety suggestion available. He’s also the one who is always sick..
Anyway, who really needed this study? Did it never occur to the general public that surfaces touched by all of humanity and never cleaned might have germs? Really? No one thought of that before? Ah, hell, who cares. I don’t, as long as tax money didn’t fund this study why should I care?
Maybe I should stop scratching my ass with the gas pump nozzle…
Read the rest: Gas pump handles top study of filthy surfaces – Yahoo! News.
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