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Post by lavandulagirl on Jan 15, 2009 16:49:36 GMT -5
Oooh! I HATE mean people! On Thursdays, I volunteer at a place where clothing is given out for free to people in dire need. Similar to a 2nd hand store, but with no money changing hands. People in the community drop off donations, which we sort, hang on racks, and bag for the people who come in. WHY IN THE WORLD would you bag up a whole bunch of clothes with POOP AND VOMIT on them, and donate them?!?!? Doesn't it occur to you that if you think they're too gross to wash and wear, MOST people would be of that same opinion?
So, I open a bag of donations, dump them out on the table, only to find out that they are encrusted with this filth! GAH!! As some of you already know, I have issues with other people's germs... a borderline OCD obsession with cleanliness. I thought I was going to die. I wanted a shower, and a gasmask, and another shower, and maybe then another shower. And then I wanted to be wrapped in Tyvek, or at least a hazmat suit, in order to re-bag the stuff for the trash. Then another shower.
Funny enough.... I don't have the same issues with fertilizer quality animal poop... weird. Anyway, rant over. I just wanted to say how gross it was. Thanks for letting me vent.
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Post by houseodessey on Jan 15, 2009 18:13:40 GMT -5
Ack! That should be considered bio-terrorism.
My husband always makes fun of me when I spend all day washing my donations, even though they have been hanging up, clean for a while. I don't want people with pet allergies to have problems so I feel it necessary to give them one last wash before I set them out. I would be mortified if I opened a bag full of nasty clothes.
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Post by canadamike on Jan 15, 2009 19:07:48 GMT -5
Funny in a way, sad in another. I would not be surprised if the vomit had been volunteered by a teenager hinking it is funny. On the other hand, few people handle as much shit as we do, even take it LOVINGLY in our hands to put it in the soil... but we can't stand dirty toilet bowls... Well, humans are like that. An exotic dancer will show off her genitals and her boobies to hundreds of people in a room, but catch her by mistake in the club's washrooms sitting on a toilet bowl, and she'll hide her knees, mortified and shameful.... Go figure
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Post by moonlilyhead on Jan 15, 2009 19:26:46 GMT -5
Jeez, that is SO disgusting! Why on earth would someone do that?? I wonder if it was on purpose, or they were just that stupid to think someone else would want the clothes. I have a BIG problem with puke. Which is why I have no children.
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Post by americangardener on Jan 15, 2009 20:08:25 GMT -5
Funny in a way, sad in another. I would not be surprised if the vomit had been volunteered by a teenager hinking it is funny. On the other hand, few people handle as much shit as we do, even take it LOVINGLY in our hands to put it in the soil... but we can't stand dirty toilet bowls... Well, humans are like that. An exotic dancer will show off her genitals and her boobies to hundreds of people in a room, but catch her by mistake in the club's washrooms sitting on a toilet bowl, and she'll hide her knees, mortified and shameful.... Go figure Michel.. you spend too much time in topless bars. Now stay away from those toilet bowls.. and especially the ones in the womens washrooms. I'm not even gonna ask how you know that information.
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Post by landarc on Jan 15, 2009 20:14:27 GMT -5
I'm not even gonna ask how you know that information. And that was my thought as well. I do have to say, despite recent warnings, I would say that the likelihood of being exposed to nasty pathogens is very unlikely in composted manure. I would be way more disturbed with hot sewage. That is just sick.
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Post by michaeljohnson on Jan 18, 2009 2:00:41 GMT -5
I once had an issue with my wife, over bags of compost made with human crap A large sewage farm was advertising in the newspaper they had- tried and tested- bags of compost for sale made from screened top soil loam, peat, and dried and fully composted human crap and wee, with a fairly high nitrogen content to it, I went out and bought four bags of it to try-as it was cheap, when I opened the bags to examine it there was absolutely no smell to it at all, other than sweet and nutty But- the wife absolutely refused point blank to eat anything that I grew in it, - she eventually forgot about it and the bags of compost still stood there by the side of the shed doing absolutely nothing, until one day in the late spring she asked me if I had any spare compost she could use in her seed trays for her flowers etc,- she went outside and started to ladel it into her seed trays with both hands thrust into the bags-then all of a sudden she stopped in her tracks and I saw her through the window carefully reading the details on the compost bags- I was chuckling like hell to myself by this time, she threw the whole lot on the ground and left it where it was and then came inside muttering like hell and cursing me out loud, and then disappeared into the bathroom and was scrubbing her hands for ages and then some with disinfectant. ;D
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jan 18, 2009 11:08:37 GMT -5
Well, I might not have any problem with composted human waste, or any other carnivore waste if it's been properly aged, etc. I prefer herbivore, though, in the garden, if only from a smell standpoint. Like you said, the bagged stuff you had was odorless, and screened, etc. I probably wouldn't have any misgivings about using it.
It's really odd... I have serious issues about touching things other people have handled... grocery cart handles, doorknobs, library books... that kind of thing. I've been known to wash my hands over 30 times in a single day. BUT I generally garden without gloves on. Weird, huh? I guess my real issue is with other people's boogers, or something.
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Post by pugs on Jan 18, 2009 11:48:46 GMT -5
Lav,
It is nice to hear you laugh at your own oddities. I joke about my minor OCD oddities. I figure that is the only way to keep them in check.
Pugs
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Post by winter unfazed on Jan 25, 2009 10:06:38 GMT -5
I'm almost inclined to say "Gag me with a spoon", but that would be more vomit.
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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 25, 2009 10:53:56 GMT -5
A hazmat suit... sounds great. I think your concern is perfectly justified. If ya can see the contagion, that makes it all the more silly to actually handle it!
Moonlily: Yeah, kids secrete all kinds of stuff. (Mother of 2)
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Post by moonlilyhead on Jan 25, 2009 16:28:06 GMT -5
Yep. I do have some exposure to the little ones (like 5-10 years old) in an arts camp I do twice a summer for a week each. At the beginning of each camp, I HOPE hope hope so much that nothing squirts from either end of the little guys and gals. Thus far, I've been lucky!
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Post by kimikat on Jan 26, 2009 22:28:16 GMT -5
This is just further proof that the biggest part of the human race remains unevolved. Just big dumb monkey's...
Speaking of lack of cleanlieness...how about those people who somehow...manage to crap ALL over a wall....when they sit down to take a healthy one in a public restroom and don't bother to tell anyone when that they had an accident when they leave...People are gross...
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Post by lavandulagirl on Feb 1, 2009 9:21:19 GMT -5
Update - for those of you who were feeling my pain last week -:
I went into the Clothes Closet this past Thursday, and the first FOUR bags I got were all very neatly folded, perfectly clean men's clothes. The bags actually laid flat, since everything in them was so neatly placed, and they were tied off in such a manner that I could untie them rather than rip them open, resulting in garbage bags that we could reuse.
While there's an excellent chance the clothes were donated as a result of a death (we get a lot of that), which makes it marginally sad, the fact that someone wanted our customers to have clean, neat clothing, and thought of the sorters as well, made my day.
See - there are still good folks out there! Yeehaw!
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Post by flowerpower on Feb 2, 2009 6:50:52 GMT -5
See - there are still good folks out there! Yeehaw!People around here are generally pretty nice. Especially the men. lol For example: Two weeks ago, I hit black ice just as soon as I started to head downhill. And I was not speeding at all. There was alot of drifting snow on the road. I was doing maybe 45 on a 55 rd. I steered myself right into a snowbank. Luckily, neither I nor my truck had any damage. Not a minute later a guy, his wife and 2 lil kids stop. And he has a tow rope in his truck. I was on the rd again within 10 minutes. I would have got my truck out with some digging and 4 wheel drive. But, honestly, some other guy would have come along in a few minutes. Probably before any of my friends could get there. lol The state is being cheap on the plowing/salting. I have heard of alot more accidents this yr.
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