Clean Crap With Anti-Bacterial Solution

This Crap Ticks Me Off . . . people who think using a germ-infested towel with anti-bacterial solution is also known as "cleaning."

Let's think about this: You've just finished your workout at the local gym facility. Upon entering the lockerroom, you take note a certain gentleman, whom you saw on the treadmill sweating profusely just 20 minutes prior, is now exiting one of the shower stalls and drying off with a towel. You continue to your locker to collect your belongings. As you leave the lockeroom, you once again walk by the same shower stall to find his towel slump on the floor and without hesitation, you pick it up, put it in your bag, and take it to use after your shower at home.

Would anyone in their right mind do this?

Um, NO.

So why is it then, that some gym facilities leave a single towel and anti-bacterial spray bottle in random places throughout the gym to "clean" the machines? If we are all using the same towel to wipe sweat and body funk off of all of the machines, are we really cleaning them? Or could it be that we are merely smearing the sweat of two dozen people all over the seat and handles of that machine?

Sure, fine, so you throw in a spritz of anti-bacterial spray. For those of you that want to argue that anti-bacterial spray kills 99% of the germs, let me ask YOU this: Would you wipe your butt with the same piece of toilet paper some random person used before you? How about if I spritzed a little anti-bacterial spray on it? One more Crap Case closed.

I'm not done yet.

Some tanning salons have also been borrowing the clever "spray and smear" technique. They give you a clean fluffy towel. You tan. You sweat. You use the clean fluffy towel to wipe yourself down. You leave the sweated-on-tanning-lotion-ick towel in the room and leave the salon. Have you ever wondered what happens to your towel?

Get your crap shovels.

Some, and I repeat, some tanning salons take the towel you just wiped yourself down with, spritz it with anti-bacterial spray, and wipe down your used tanning bed. Moments after, your towel finally meets the laundry basket.

Why should you care? Because the bed you just tanned in that you thought was clean was cleaned the SAME way. Here's a thought . . . why even spend the money on expensive tanning lotions when you could just ask the salon manager if the person before you used some? If they did, you could lay down, sweat it up, absorb the lotion that person left behind and save yourself some cash.

Is this ingenious strategy to conserve energy? Is it to put the detergent companies out of business? Or am I the last person on earth to have a working washer and dryer?

When environmentalists suggested we become more conservative with water, I can't believe this was what they had in mind. The resorts and hotels of the country have it figured out; they ask their guests to reuse their own towels and linens when possible. They most certainly don't suggest we use the same towels and sheets of the person who slept in the room the night before us. Would it make you feel better if they smiled and said, "But we sprayed them down with anti-bacterial spray."

It's all B.S. Spraying and smearing is not cleaning no matter what anti-bacterial solution is being used to disinfect. And if it is, I guess I'll be working out and tanning at home. I have a washer that isn't afraid to get dirty . . . pun intended.