Welcome to this week's edition of Flash Back Friday! This article from last year was written be my husband. At his previous job he worked too far from home to come home at lunch time so he had to eat lunch at his desk. That must have been lonely. Now that we have moved and got a new job he comes home everyday for lunch so hopefully we don't have this gross problem at our kitchen table.
Me and My Bacteria
I use to think that I ate lunch alone, at my desk, but according to professor Charles Gerba of the University of Arizona I am sharing my lunch with millions of germs and bacteria. To put it bluntly he says " The average office desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat." I eat my lunch at my desk every day!!!! I could hardly believe what I was reading; so basically if I ate my lunch off a toilet seat I would be more bacteria free than eating it off my desk. On the bright side, luckily I am a man because "women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as men do." The reason for this is women have more places for bacteria to hide; knickknacks, cosmetics, hand lotions and food, all things found in and around a woman's desk. Sometimes I will bring licorice to work to eat throughout the day; I will take out a few pieces, eat one and put the others on my desk. I try to keep the others pieces off the paper and files on my desk so I don't have little pieces of candy suck to them, but after reading this article none of my food will touch my desk, ever.Now is the time you are welcome to comment with a link to your flash back friday post. Happy Friday everyone!
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