Feet

[trashpickinman]

I didn't want to start a poll, but I have a story and a question.

Last night I watched as my stepfather was walking up the stairs, in his hands were the socks he had been wearing all day at work being dragged up the handrailing of the staircase. Immediately after I took some cleaner and a towel and started cleaning it, then he yelled at me. I talked about it with my mother, she said she has no problem with wet dirty socks being dragged over anywhere in the house, and that I was over reacting about the whole thing, calling me "obsessive".

Is anybody else extremely grossed out when people pick and rub their feet or play with their socks then go about touching everything else without washing their hands first?

[MytMowse]

I would so wash it after it was dragged around. That's really gross.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Sweaty hands, shirt, anything would be gross.

Immediately jumping to sanitize and clean it would border on obsessive, though. :ermm:

However phobic or obsessive it may be, it is nothing to be scolded about, in my opinion. (and, from the one-word title of the thread, it seems that you are particularly fixated on feet)

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

I would not want to get athletes hands. You did the right thing.

[C++]

Well, what he did was not exactly the most "becoming" of things, but running after him with cleaner and a towel is a little obsessive. I mean, come on. You'd probably get exposed to more germs touching a locker door, or performing oral sex. Germs are everywhere, no need to be alarmed about it. That's why you have an immune system.

[_bobcat_ Veteran]

I guess it really depends on his feet ... if they were really minging then I think it's better to have cleaned the rail than not..but an average non infected foot is probably cleaner than your hands.. It's still inconsiderate though, although I have no issue with feet, I would not want to touch other people's..

[ambushed]

Well, what he did was not exactly the most "becoming" of things, but running after him with cleaner and a towel is a little obsessive. I mean, come on. You'd probably get exposed to more germs touching a locker door, or performing oral sex. Germs are everywhere, no need to be alarmed about it. That's why you have an immune system.

+1

Words out of my mouth

[Popcorned1]

Your keyboard probably has a lot more germs on it than the hand rail does. ;)

[spacer]

I prefer the term "footies".

[macf13nd]

on a side note, feet don't look nice do they? :pinch:

[Brian M. Veteran]

I'm pretty much the same to be honest. Whilst I probably wouldn't jump up right away to clean it, it would bug the hell out of me until I did.

[NightCrawler.]

Disconcerning the story - I hate all things feet/foot - they're so fugly.

[C++]

on a side note, feet don't look nice do they? :pinch:

Disconcerning the story - I hate all things feet/foot - they're so fugly.

How can you guys hate "feet?" That's like saying you hate "noses" or "ears." It's a body part, comes in all shapes and sizes. Are you saying you've never seen a cute set of painted toes on a girl?

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

I agree you should clean it if you plan to touch it. But I don't touch handrails unless I am about to fall down.

I was in Woolworths on their escalator once and, as usual, not touching the hand rail. But some employee told me to hold on to the rail. He told me this like three times as I was moving up toward him, getting more forceful each time. Needless to say I did not do what he wanted. Who knows what was on that handrail?

LOL now I know that is obsessive. I should qualify things to say that I do touch things I consider dirty and don't normally worry about it. But I always register it in my mind and never feel clean afterward until I've actually washed my hands. Tragic :D

[gaurav]

You should have waited a while before cleaning it up, but yeah, you did the right thing. Socks can get very dirrrty.

I wonder why he scolded you though, its not that obsessive or offensive.

[DarkBlade]

I would have done the same thing...just seems kinda gross to me. That, and I'm not a foot person, I have a weird thing with feet lol. Not saying they're ugly per se, I just don't like 'em.

[Golferjim]

I would not want to get athletes hands. You did the right thing.

Agree with you 100% .. I hate it when people are at my house and they go to the toilet and not wash there hands or touch there toes/feet and then just continue to play on the pc like it is nothing. Its probably one the the grouses things in the world when people touch parts in there body and not wash there hands after doing that, call me hyper hygienic but that is just me, have to clean my hands after pretty much anything that involves germs or anything dirty :) ...

Tell your stepfather trashpickinman that he needs to get some serious hygiene skills or something asap!! Please for all of us :p

[duritz]

considering the various ailments of the feet, I would have done the same thing. but, in my case, I don't catch on to things like that and probably would have used the hand rail and picked a booger or popped some m&m's into my mouth.

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

Next time, just get an antibacterial cloth and wipe as you're walking up the stairs.

He'll never know...

[Starchild]

I guess it really depends on his feet ... if they were really minging then I think it's better to have cleaned the rail than not..but an average non infected foot is probably cleaner than your hands.. It's still inconsiderate though, although I have no issue with feet, I would not want to touch other people's..

:rofl:

[_bobcat_ Veteran]

I agree you should clean it if you plan to touch it. But I don't touch handrails unless I am about to fall down.

I was in Woolworths on their escalator once and, as usual, not touching the hand rail. But some employee told me to hold on to the rail. He told me this like three times as I was moving up toward him, getting more forceful each time. Needless to say I did not do what he wanted. Who knows what was on that handrail?

LOL now I know that is obsessive. I should qualify things to say that I do touch things I consider dirty and don't normally worry about it. But I always register it in my mind and never feel clean afterward until I've actually washed my hands. Tragic :D

I think that's quite sensible in a public place. I'm not generally a germophobe, but when other people's potentially filthy hands have been all over it, with their cold germs etc, you don't want that getting on you. I also have the need to wash my hands if I think about, unfortunately I usually just forget.

[JackBauer87]

I love feet. :woot:

[shockz]

Gross... but I'd definitely say its obsessive to go running over and clean it immediately. You could have at least waited till your stepfather wasn't watching. Thats just rude.

[metallithrax]

Is anybody else extremely grossed out when people pick and rub their feet or play with their socks then go about touching everything else without washing their hands first?

You'd be violently sick if you could see me now. :laugh:

Rubbing my feet, picking my toe nails.

[gnuman]

We need a Neowin Feet pics topic to settle this :) Using a sock that was worn that day to wipe a railing with isn't the nicest idea as who would want a foot smell on their hand? Then again you don't have to use the railing either :)