I know what you've been thinking.
You've been thinking, "I wonder what bugs Carrot?"
You are so kind. Always wondering what you can do to make me more comfortable in this world.
Well, I'll tell you.
The first thing is hand towels.
What is the point exactly?
Hand towels not only bug me, they disgust me.
I've just washed my hands, and you want me to wipe them on a towel that's been in your bathroom for who knows how long, and has been wiped with who knows what?
*gag*
Uh, no thanks.
"Carrot, everyone that has wiped their hands on my hand towels has washed their hands too!"
What did they wash their hands with? Huh?
Are you sure they used the soap?
Nope, I'd rather walk around with wet hands.
Can I talk about Amway a second? What is so fabulous about the products that when I ask you if you have any bleach, you tell me, "I don't use bleach! I use Amway!"
When you say that, I don't understand.
Yes, you use Amway, but your sponge could use some plain old bleach, which I bet is cheaper than your 30 year old Amway products.
I wonder what you'd do if I snuck some bleach into your house.
Lastly, how about commercials with people making sounds?
Yes, your daughter is cute, but the sound she makes slurping rice crispies into her mouth is heinous.
It's never cute for me.
And I cannot stand listening to people brush their teeth!
In commercials, or real life.
ARGH!
Do we really need sound effects to sell a product?
Do you really need to talk to me while you're brushing your teeth for 2 minutes? It's like cutting yarn with a pairing knife! *shudder*
If you do that, stop now.
In fact, if you do any of the above, stop now before I have to end our friendship.
That, would be sad.
Necessary, but sad nonetheless.
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My grandma is big into those little teeny tea towels when she has guests. She puts them out for me now and I never touch 'em.
Do you have a "sound thing"?
*SSSSLlUUUUUURRRPPPP*
Uh, that particular commercial bugs me to. But who knew so many things bugged you?
But I never ever thought of hand towels that way before. Oh well, it's not like I wash my hands at all anyway.
KIDDING! I kid!
heehee...love the blunt honesty that I have become accustomed to finding on your Blog! :-)
I have a thing about brown paper bags and wooden ice cream sticks...go figure!
I can never have you over - I use hand towels. But I change them out every day. Does that make it better?
Probably not.
How do you feel about dish towels? To me - dish towels are more disgusting than hand towels. I have dish towels, but usually use paper towels. I see folks mop up a spill on their floor with a dish towel and then hang it back up to use it on pots and pans they will dry later.
WHAT THE MONKEY?
I don't want floor water on my pans.
Basically - you and I have related illnesses.
Snacks. That bothers you also.
I change my kids' hand towels every other day because even though they ae the cleanest teenagers (when it comes to personal hygene, not cooking and cleaning up after themselves...) those towels wannabes can get pretty funly real fast.
Ew.
Oh, and those little tiny towels (face towels) are just stupid.
And what about those dumb little couch pillows? What's that baout, they are just in the way ;P
More! MORE!!
I change hand towels, too, but now I'm worried I don't change them enough. Hmmm. I better go buy some more so I can change them daily. However, my MIL puts out cute paper hand towel things when the whole family is there. I love that but forget to do it. Everyone has their own hand towel in our house, too. No sharing allowed.
For me, it's the Carl's Jr burger commercials.
Their ad campaign is about the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
And I'll have to admit that dishtowels and dishrags gross me out more than the hand towels. (Though, come to think of it, I don't like to use hand towels in other people's homes. Matter of fact, I just avoid bathrooms entirely.)
Cutting yarn with a paring knife? Who does that?
I think you should get one of those hot air hand dryers for your home...but then you still have to worry about pushing the button...the person that pushed the button last might not have washed properly.
Okay...then you need one of those paper towel dispensers with the motion detector so that you don't have to actually touch something that someone else touched.
Ooooh...but then what do you do when you leave the bathroom? You still have to touch the doorknob, which will have been touched by everyone else that has used the bathroom...and how often do you disinfect that knob?
Thanks for the new phobia! Now I have to go find the disinfecting wipes...or just some bleach, and clean the doorknob in our bathroom...
LOL! My hubby used to have a college roommate that would wash his mouth in the kitchen sink, then use the kitchen hand towel to dry it! Eww!!! I will be sure to never brush my teeh within 50 feet of you! :)
Hand towels? You mean those aren't for blowing your nose??
Don't I feel foolish.
I don't like the Carl's Jr. ads either,yuck!
You know what gripes me? When my kids bring me their wrappers and garbage when we are at home. I just say, "Hello?? You guys know where the garbage can is!!" Gosh!
Your PS made me laugh out loud.
I 100% agree about the hand towels! LOL! I've just never heard anyone say it before! Thinking about cutting yarn with a paring knife makes me shudder, kind of like nails on the chalkboard.
I didn't read the post because I'm in a hurry to go to work but I just had to tell you about my weird dream I just woke up from....
Oh my heck, I was swimming in a pool with Jim Gaffigan!!! We got to talking about our Indiana connections and I was telling him about you and how funny you are and what a big fan you are of him and of course our awesome blogs came up in the conversation and then inexplicably the last part of the dream I was talking with the folks from Good Times who had moved here to Texas from Chicago and they loved the life here but were horrified when I told them about what to expect from Houston summers....including the flying roaches.
I have to go ummmmm ecrust my eyes before I leave for work. Ciao!
In my dream world my bathroom is floor-to-ceiling tile with a drain in the back corner so I can spray it all down with disinfectant and wash all the germs away. There are touchless faucets, soap dispensers and paper towel dispensers and a magic door that will lock when you want it too but which you can push open with your big toe (which doesn't mind the germs so much). Do not get me started about the books my kids leave on the back of the toilet.
Someday I'll tell you about my dream kitchen...
People use hand towels? Wow...we just use the sides of our pants to dry our hands on.
As for kitchen towels...we still have so many left from our wedding that we can use them like paper towels and still have loads. Or loads of laundry.
I guess I'm just happy we don't have TV so I don't have to watch the commercials everyone is disgusted with.
DISH TOWELS--- those are disgusting. BABY BIBS---those are disgusting...
What I detest are commercials about feminine hygiene products and male potency or enlargement products. Totally revolting.
And beer commercials with gratuitous nudity.....Now I do like the diet soda commercials where the girls are take their breaks so they can watch the beefcake take their shirts off as they drink their diet sodas.
Am I employing a double standard?
DISH TOWELS--- those are disgusting. BABY BIBS---those are disgusting...
What I detest are commercials about feminine hygiene products and male potency or enlargement products. Totally revolting.
And beer commercials with gratuitous nudity.....Now I do like the diet soda commercials where the girls are take their breaks so they can watch the beefcake take their shirts off as they drink their diet sodas.
Am I employing a double standard?
I particularly want to send a shout out to my good friends over at Victoria's Secret.
Dear Victoria's Secret....THANK YOU for filling the airwaves with your unrealistic and enhanced lingerie models. There is nothing that a mom like me loves more than to have to make a mad dash for the remote control or actually have to *GASP* get up to change the station to keep my young sons from taking in the trashy eye candy you're selling because one day I don't want my sons to grow up and demand to know why their wife isn't pouting seductively while prancing around the house in nothing but her flimsy bra and panties while wearing stiletto heels.
THANK YOU for choosing to advertise during family hour shows like American Idol. Is it because you know I'm fat and you want me to get up off it to go change the channel manually so I lose some weight? Well, your genius plan is working because they show your sleaze every other commercial break which means I'm burning a ton of calories to turn you off while you're trying to turn impressionable young men on. The Irony.
OK what's annoying me right now is that commercial for the shaving product with the girls spraying foam all over themselves...and then they go up his nose.
Does this commercial actually work?
after reading this, i still couldn't think of something that bugs me. what does that say about me?
That's so funny you wrote about handtowels because this last week I had a "wet hand" dilemma. I was in someone's guest bathroom, wearing a dress (so the wipe on the side of the jeans option was out), had just washed my hands and turned around to dry my hands. Facing me was a tiny, very used -nay, very dirty- hand towel. This was a stress test because someone was knocking on the door to use the toilet next! I thought, hmm, most people just wipe their hands on the front of the towel, so I'll use the back. I flipped over the back and it was a dirty as the front. Rats! So I figured the portion inside of the towel that hangs over the towel bar would be the least used, and I was right!
In my guest bath room I usually have a basket of C-fold paper hand towels from the local resturant supply store, or a roll of paper towels. Now I'm really hoping they were in there when you visited.
Compulsive, I too wanted your type of dream bathroom. when I remodeled my kids' bathroom I looked into tiling the whole thing with a drain in the middle of the floor, for an easy hose down (four boys and one girl). It's very expensive because you have to build a room inside a room with waterproof wallboard tightly sealed. I settled for a toilet, a urinal, timed heatlamp, and timed lights and timed fan. I only wish I had put in a coin slot for the purchase of hot water :)
Bella is clapping along with Gracie.
Toast crumbs in the butter bother me. But not enough to stop buttering my toast over the butter tub.
I totally agree~ those little wast of a towel are gross!
Thanks for sharing, someone has to let the world know we don't want everyones elses little kids jam hands on ours!
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