I am going to die

[Sammy]

.....but my brother DID get his head stuck in my mom's big spaghetti pot and they had to call the fire department to get him out ).......Beth

As far as germs go, I've been known to actually take coins back (as in change for dollars) from ungloved hands; AND we have used the handrails while going through ride queues... I love livin' on the edge.

 

[CarolA]

Can we get a Mickey Mouse casket for our group funeral?

 

[Karibeth19]

I've got one for you! When my DD was 3, we were at Chuck E. Cheese, and I needed to use the restroom. DD didn't need to go, but she wanted to go with me. She was going through a hating to wash her hands phase, so I told her, "Keep your hands by your side, and don't touch anything while you wait for me, so we won't have to wash your hands." (knowing full well I'd use the Purell on her when we left, just to be sure). We go in the stall, and she proceeds to play with the lid of the feminine product disposal can (which we all know is the filthiest place in a ladies room!). I said to her, "Don't touch that! Now we have to wash your hands!". She smiles at me, says, "No, we don't", and LICKS HER HAND!!!!

Long story short, she is now a happy, healthy 7 year old, and suffered absolutely NO consequences from that little incident (other than a stern lecture from her mother!). If she can survive that, I think we can all survive a few days in a WDW hotel room.

 

[taximomfor4]

My kids have developed super effective immune systems by:
Patting strange (but friendly) dogs

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"How Strange are They?"

Beth (who is germ-challenged...a hotel-bedspread-using, barefoot-walking, public-pool-swimming, public-potty-sitting (with liner), cashier-pen-using, payphone-talking (when I can find them), carpet-owning, bath-loving, fast-food-eating, elevator-riding, money-spending, handrail-holding HOTDOG EATER! (I had better get started on writing my memoirs, my wisdom should be handed down!)

 

[lmhall2000]

It's all about perspective...

Haven't some or most of us been on those roughing it camping trips??? You know the ones with no toilets, not toilet paper, and you were lucky if you had a tent? Well, I have...and let me tell you, you're just sooo thankful for having packed an extra jacket so you can rest your head on something soft.

It's a BED, it's a TOILET, it's DISNEY....I'm sleeping, sitting, and playing!

Tara

 

[Mysteria]

Hello my name is Myst and I'm also into Extreme Living!

Myst

 

[zdesiree]

IT'S THE GERMS WHAT BINDS US ALL

 

[MickeyFlirt]

Okay we are we planning this funeral I think I will be attending.

I don't carry cleaning supplies with me on vacation- I mean its vacation so of course I don't clean my room. I walk bare foot in the room- heck I stand in the shower barefooted Have even taken a bath Sleep under the blankets, touch handrails, touched the rmote and phone without cleaning it Drank out of the glasses they leave for you. Man leaving on the edge is fun.

BTW my family never gets sick. DD who is 5 has been on antibiotics once for a ear infection. I say we are doing pretty darn good.
I wnat have fun if I have to worry about germs-Heck if you don't want to encounter germs you need to be in a bubble otherwise its impossible.

 

[cruisnfamily]

Since practically EVERYONE takes the offensive comforter off, I'm thinking the thing is probaby cleaner than I thought!

 

[bugsy]

Can we get a Mickey Mouse casket for our group funeral?

Maybe we could get the AP rate!!!!!

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

Hello my name is Myst and I'm also into Extreme Living!

Myst

me too!

I touch everything. I keep the comforter on the bed but it usually gets kicked off to the floor since I tend to get hot when I sleep. I don't squat in the bathroom (and I don't drip on the seats like the nasty squatters do!!!).

Since me and the family are into such dangerous living, I'm suprised we never get sick. Healthy as a horse

 

[kandeebunny]

I'm jealous! I tote lysol or clorox wipes on every vacation and wipe down EVERYTHING. I remove the comforters instantly, and I wear flip flops in the hotel and in the shower. I have a horrible immune system, hence all the precautions, BUT I often forget to hold on to my paper towel to open the bathroom doors! LOL!!!

 

[CarolA]

Maybe we could get the AP rate!!!!!

We better start a thread to watch for those rates. Don't want to miss them when they are released.

 

[disyady]

I believe one of my posts may have been referred to somewhere along the line here - I'm the one who suggested wearing something on your feet in the hotel room. This was based on a very nasty ant problem at the POR about 5 years ago - we were overrun with them and I have a bug phobia - not a germ phobia!! We have never worried about cleaning anything or swimming in the pool, etc. etc.... I will say, though, that driving rather than flying did seem to make a difference for our family last August. It was our first family trip without someone developing a high fever, ear ache or vomitting (our youngest DD is the lucky girl who has thrown up at least a few times on every trip except last year). Maybe I should have taken my Clorox wipes on our plane trips!!

 

[Jasminetigger]

Life is too short to woory about the small stuff. Live life and enjoy.

 

[kdtwiss]

Just wanted to say - none of you would EVER want to come to my house - 4 children, toys, germs, runny noses, etc. 24/7

And God - I HATE CLEANING!

 

[Alysa]

Oh my goodness - too too funny! I can't read this stuff ussually because it freaks me out and I try not to think about it - DM was a clean freak and I once was so sick I passed out on the floor at a hospital because I had been taught to ALWAYS hover pee (and I have to be pretty desperate to go into a public washroom in the first place) - you can imaging my state when I awoke to find myself on a public washroom FLOOR!
My sister seems to have a strange anti-fear and used to want to go into every public toilet she could find. Weird girl!
I also can't bear to walk on hotel and workout floors without something on my feet, and I always bring my own pillow.

After reading numerous threads tonight...it is obvious to me that my time on this earth is limited. I soak in the hot tubs, I trek through my hotel with bare feet, I sleep under the quilts, I soak in the regular bath tubs, I swim in the "feces infested pools", I use the strollers in the parks for my 2 yr. old (god forbid..he is going to meet an early demise too!!!!! ), AND I even SIT on the toilet in the public restrooms........

I am just going to have to wrap myself in plastic at the hotel now - thanks!

My kids have developed super effective immune systems by:
Chewing on shopping cart handles (I tried to stop them but when I'm comparison shopping I lose track)

hysterical

(I didn't get my head stuck in them, but my brother DID get his head stuck in my mom's big spaghetti pot and they had to call the fire department to get him out ).

I hope you tease him about it on a regular basis!

I've got one for you! When my DD was 3, we were at Chuck E. Cheese, and I needed to use the restroom. DD didn't need to go, but she wanted to go with me. She was going through a hating to wash her hands phase, so I told her, "Keep your hands by your side, and don't touch anything while you wait for me, so we won't have to wash your hands." (knowing full well I'd use the Purell on her when we left, just to be sure). We go in the stall, and she proceeds to play with the lid of the feminine product disposal can (which we all know is the filthiest place in a ladies room!). I said to her, "Don't touch that! Now we have to wash your hands!". She smiles at me, says, "No, we don't", and LICKS HER HAND!!!!

This one is the best - I have a 2 year old and I know I will be this type of Mum. You made my day with this story!

Kids are too funny! but really, aside from my strange phobias, it is apparently our societies over-cleanliness that has lead to an increase in immune system illnesses like asthma. Don't think about it - too yucky - just enjoy and give your immune system a good work-out - it's good for you!

 

[disneyfreakjackie]

I said to her, "Don't touch that! Now we have to wash your hands!". She smiles at me, says, "No, we don't", and LICKS HER HAND!!!!

Ooooooooo! You've got your hands full with her!!! She sounds a bit like my fourth dd8!!! She's a fiesty one!!! That made me laugh!!

I don't let the girls use the comforters anywhere but home, only because I read "about them" here on the DIS!!! My DH thinks I being stupid!! Too bad, they're not using them!! And I was planning on bringing some lysol and lysol/clorox wipes . . . I can't help myself!!! I never let my dd's sit in a hotel bathtub either, it's just gross!!! Showers all around!

I have a problem, huh?!?

 

[DW mouser]

Most germs live and multiply on warm, moist surfaces so your probably safe from the bed spreads, although, I admit I've always wondered about that because they would be all faded if they washed them every time!! Now I know to turn them down or ask for new ones. If everyone askes for new ones, I can see the prices of the rooms going up....again!!! We build up our immunity from germs and if your too clean (it is possible), you may not be helping out your immune system. I live on a farm now and as a kid and let me tell you I could freak you out with the things we did as kids!!! Like, daring my brother to put a worm in his mouth (he did) and eating dirt the was cracked like peanut brittle!! None of us ever died or was even very sick!! Still hardly ever sick so the immunity thing must be true!!

 

[DVCconvert]

Germs of the human mouth...aka....drool.....

how many people drool on the sheets when they sleep?

You ARE going to 'die'!!

btw, the facts are you stand a greater likihood of being killed by a metor hitting your house and specifically your bedroom than other other thing knocking you off!