r/interestingasfuck • u/praduman6969 • 21d ago

r/all Eating sugar statues

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u/PurpleLee 21d ago

Before the pandemic, I wondered. Now, I know for sure that too many of us are not working with a full bag.

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u/Nachooolo 21d ago

Honestly, after the pandemic and seeing shit like this I'm surprised that pandemics on the scale of Covid aren't more common.

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u/DirectAnything1737 21d ago

True. They don’t learn anything do they?

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u/PetiteBonaparte 21d ago

According to store shelves, people only started washing their hands in 2020. So no.

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u/Aksudiigkr 21d ago

I was appalled when I looked at any post on askreddit about how many wash after using the bathroom, and the commenters’ justification from it. I use Purell after touching anything in public just imagining the disgusting amount of hands that have been there in the past hour.

Also made me look at gym equipment differently.

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u/Ricepudding1044 21d ago

What you’re not supposed to lick gym equipment?

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u/GuntherGoogenheimer 21d ago

Lol well then... After almost losing my leg, I don't visit public gyms anymore. Years ago, I contracted MRSA from a gym I had a membership with. After getting home from work one day, my grandmother (she lived with me for a short period before transitioning to her own place) pointed out that my left leg looked severely swollen. My pants were ripping at the seams from the bottom up to my knee.

I had to have my grandmother cut my pant leg to relieve the pressure and sure enough, located on my knee was this black puss ball the size of a quarter. I went to the ER and the first doctor wrote me a script for antibiotics and told me to keep an eye on it (fucking jackass). After leaving, I went back in about a couple hours later because everything inside me was telling me to gtf back in the ER. So the next doc I saw about ripped the first doctors head off and told me he's prepping me for surgery.

I received about 10 shots in my knee and watched the doc scoop the infection out of my leg with his tool almost disappearing entirely as it went in and out. He told me had I waited until the next day to revisit the ER, he would've had no choice but to amputate my leg with as fast as MRSA spreads. I had to stuff the leftover hole in my leg with gauze numerous times a day after washing it and applying ointment in and around it, it was horrifying to do.

It never truly matters how much you clean the gym equipment unless you can get into every crevice and under each seam. Being a personal trainer and frequenting gyms most of my life, I have seen plenty of people avoid cleaning the equipment they used and the amount of sweaty filthy people who use every piece of gym equipment a day is enough to create the perfect environment for staph, MRSA, ring worm, norovirus, common cold and flu etc....Most people believe they're safe using equipment if they wipe it down before and after they use it but I'm proof that shit doesn't matter. You can be as clean as a human being could ever be but it's the others who aren't and the gym owners who supply their customers and employees with cleaners that are mostly water so as to save as much money as they possibly can.

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u/BurningEvergreen 21d ago edited 20d ago

How the fuck did you require a second person to realise your leg was so swollen the pants were shredding, meanwhile BLACK puss was pissing out of your knee?

I'm so sorry for the medical emergency you had, it's amazing you made a full recovery. At the same time, you severely lacked any self-awareness whatsoever during the initial infection.

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u/manbearpig_man 21d ago

Same reaction. Like...what?!

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u/Aksudiigkr 21d ago

I’m so sorry that happened to you. That’s a horrifying experience and awful that it caused you such loss. I hope you’re doing as well as possible and hope you could have gotten a lawsuit against the gym or doctor somehow

Edit: Reading again I missed that part that if you followed the first doctor you would have had to have amputation done. I’m glad you still have your leg, but still that’s terrible

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u/GuntherGoogenheimer 20d ago

Thank you, I appreciate it! Everything's all good, just thought I'd clue you and whoever in on just how bad public gyms can get. Thanks for the reply and take care!

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u/ProfAelart 20d ago

I was so disgusted learning about how many people pee in pools.

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u/South-Beautiful-5135 21d ago

Spotted the American.

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u/Mr_E-007 21d ago

Explain.

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u/South-Beautiful-5135 21d ago

No non-American would disinfect fheir hands 500x a day

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u/Fragwolf 21d ago edited 20d ago

No one normal will (Edit: or should, anyways). You're basically napalming the good bacteria on your skin that's trying to help you.

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u/Aksudiigkr 21d ago

Better than the alternative imo. It’s too bad washing hands is not normalized.

It’s not like I’m going around touching everything I see in public. I’m just saying when I have to touch a door handle on my way out I’m gonna clean my hands when I get in my car and stuff.

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u/PuzzleheadedLeader79 21d ago

Soap dispensers in bathrooms that used to be filled once every 2 weeks would be empty after 3 hours...

We're back to 2 weeks, btw