Great Western Coffee Shop

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32881241

Greater Anglia trains look really pleasant to travel on...... but who do you blame, the train operator for not having cleaners or some passengers for a total lack respect for their fellow users (or maybe a bit of both!)

Both............but when I see people with their feet up on seats it really grinds my gears!!!  >:(

And me! Especially the ones wearing suits and adorned with all manner of Apple paraphernalia in First Class. They always get the hump if asked to remove their shoed feet from said seats! A favourite target of mine ;D

No idea why people can't just slip their shoes off before reclining, still not particularly nice, but it's better than whatever was on the soles of their shoes being spread all over the seats.

Hmm, not so sure.

Certainly in the evening, so you want to sit where sweaty socks have left sweat marks on the leather? ugh....smells too, so you know what's happened.

Why women think its acceptable to but bare sweaty feet on them too.....??? Yes, ladies, your feet sweat just as much as men's feet, and smell the same too

I agree, sweaty feet aren't particularly nice, but are marginally better than assorted pavement detritus from the soles of peoples shoes. For this reason I always try to pick seats on public transport where it is very difficult for others to place their feet.

Not flushing or, where required, brushing the toilet is another irritant of mine, I do sometimes wonder what the inside of some people's houses are like...!

Toilets in Finland have a little water hose thing like a mini hand held shower head for cleaning the toilet where a brush would be used in the UK.  Surprised to see that they are fitted to their trains too.   

Have you ever wondered what the dirtiest Underground Tube line is?

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/27/londons-dirtiest-tube-lines-revealed-6033468/#ixzz4FdNqibV7

Also looks at tube stations and various parts of the station ... so where are the most germs at your station?

I rather suspect that most germs at Nailsea & Backwell Station are those smeared all over the touch screens on the two ticket vending machines at the foot of the stairs up to platform 2 ...  ::)

Don't W******e provide hand sanitisers on their vans for employees, just in case they have to (ahem) make use of the many facilities at N&B ?? ??? Surely the Blessed St Michael of Portaloo was given the red carpet treatment there, despite calling it Blackwell.....

The Partnership does indeed provide - indeed, even requires me to have - hand sanitizers in my van, but I cannot think of any circumstances where I might be called upon to use them in the course of my work, at NLS.  ::)

I rather suspect that the touch screens of Ticket Vending Machines are one of the germiest places at all (TVM equipped) stations ... followed by the buttons on the associated credit card unit.

Without a doubt.  At least to the extent that the kind of bugs that you are most likely to catch (ie cold and flu type viruses) are pretty poor at surviving outside the body and therefore most likely to be found on places touched by other people recently.  Accumulated dirt and grime like the dust under your bed and the muck around a light fitting are usually very low in pathogens.   

Confirmed - from City am (http://www.cityam.com/249119/mapped-grimiest-parts-londons-tube-network-?)

Suppose you don't get dirty clientele at your partnership that you want to clean yourself after visiting!  ;D

Hmmm.  :-\

I've just picked up this otherwise dormant topic during my work in migrating various existing posts from our 'the wider picture' board to one of the new boards, so please accept my apologies for the delay in my response / resurrecting an old topic.  ::)


You would be surprised.  I have two examples of customers who, while obviously able to order their shopping online, were apparently unable to look after themselves in their own homes.  In one case, I referred the matter to social services, as I was so concerned.  That was the one where I actually used the hand sanitizers in the van when I had completed the delivery.  It was that bad.  :-X

Digressing, as ever: Many people are surprised to hear that the household item bearing the highest number of potentially-deadly microbes is not your lavvy, or even your bogbrush - it's yer kitchen sponge or cloth (you know, the one you lovingly smear all over your dishes before putting them in a nice warm dark cupboard to fester). Makes you wonder how we survive...

Indeed. Some people seem to be very selective when it comes to cleaning, my missus included. I'll come home and find that the kitchen table (and floor) still has the kids breakfast things on it and hasn't been cleaned, then she'll go around cleaning light switches and door handles with antiseptic because she thinks that's why the kids have tummy bugs!

and you help her out of course?....

Of course - not that it gets noticed! The funny thing is that when she goes away and I'm on my own with the kids the house is considerably tidier!

Does she notice do you think? :-)

I hope she never reads this forum, otherwise you're in trouble!  ;D

Since my previous post I now do the same role as you, but in an orange branded van. I'm glad I haven't come across anything like this.
We've a fair few customers who have their order done by family up country, and we can be the only people they see from week to week. I take longer and have a good chat with those.

Some time ago I read of this theory about the immune system (and I've seen nothing since, so maybe it was just someone's theory). The idea is that it is set up to mount about twenty immune responses at any time, and it picks the ones that are causing the most signs of harm. If you have fewer serious infections, it goes further down the scale and attacks things are hardly - or not - harmful at all.

It was meant to explain how the system sets its threshold, and also the observed increase in auto-immune disease and allergies over recent decades. Hence the advice, which you do hear, that being too hygienic is bad for you, and more importantly for your kids.

Well, as an argument it's worth trying anyway.

Pointing out one's other half's failings in the washing-up department is the quickest route out of marital harmony and bliss that I've ever encountered.So Far.

Surprised the escalator handrail is so much cleaner than the handrails in the trains. Perhaps it gets scrubbed clean on the return half of its revolution?