Wino Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 A smile goes a long way. Do your business and get out would be the best way to handle it. Not sure why a handshake would hurt someone?
lvdkeyes Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 "Not sure why a handshake would hurt someone?" Especially with a stranger in a men's room where you don't know if he has washed his hands after peeing or using the toilet, could quite easily pass along disease causing bacteria. With touts on the street, you are shaking hands with everyone he has shaken hands with and you have no idea where those hands have been.
Wino Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 Sounds like you may be germ-aphobic or is it mysophobia? Like I said before, nothing that a little soap and water cannot cure.
lvdkeyes Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 It is mysophobic and I am not. I spent 40 years as a health care professional.
Beer Chang Posted January 25, 2010 Author Report Posted January 25, 2010 "Not sure why a handshake would hurt someone?" Especially with a stranger in a men's room where you don't know if he has washed his hands after peeing or using the toilet The drunk was at the urinal.
Bob Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 The drunk was at the urinal. Well, when you responded, you should have turned towards him and peed on his shoes!
Thaimo Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 This is all very interesting. The part that interests me the most is the fact that a thread about comparison shopping in Thailand has turned into a thread about shaking hands with a drunk who just finished urinating.
Wino Posted January 26, 2010 Report Posted January 26, 2010 It is mysophobic and I am not. I spent 40 years as a health care professional. Because you were in the health care field for 40 years does not mean you are not mysophobic. Seems to me someone who is worried about shaking hands with a stranger is a little out there! As you know, your skin is a great barrier against many germs/bacteria. If you practice your handwashing technique you talk about, then you should have nothing to fear. I am sure you also have plenty of alcohol-based hand cleaner, as well.
Wino Posted January 26, 2010 Report Posted January 26, 2010 This is all very interesting. The part that interests me the most is the fact that a thread about comparison shopping in Thailand has turned into a thread about shaking hands with a drunk who just finished urinating. Don't you love the way we go off on tangents! Not too much to say about comparison shopping but "squirters" are a different matter.
Beer Chang Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Posted January 26, 2010 Need to buy a cheap pair of swimming trunks and some cheap white socks. Squirter already is in my hong nam.
lvdkeyes Posted January 26, 2010 Report Posted January 26, 2010 My bf bought 12 pair of white socks at an open market for 180 baht.
Bob Posted January 26, 2010 Report Posted January 26, 2010 My bf bought 12 pair of white socks at an open market for 180 baht. That reminds me: it rained pretty hard up here in Chiangmai last night.
lvdkeyes Posted January 26, 2010 Report Posted January 26, 2010 LOL, How did socks remind you of the heavy rain? I am confused.
Beer Chang Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Posted January 26, 2010 Me too but when it rains I tend to wear sneakers and white sox instead of sandals.
Bob Posted January 27, 2010 Report Posted January 27, 2010 LOL, How did socks remind you of the heavy rain? I am confused. It didn't! I got the drift we were inserting non-sequiturs so I did (which probably means now that something floated over my head). By the way, cotton or nylon?
Bob Posted January 27, 2010 Report Posted January 27, 2010 Cotton. Well, that will teach you! Bananas are never that spicy! And, besides, Mary told me I had the wrong address anyway.
Beer Chang Posted January 27, 2010 Author Report Posted January 27, 2010 I like all cotton or mostly cotton too.
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