Can't believe folks connecting up sewer without gloves

Sometime these post are boring... not on this subject.

I wear gloves and wash my hands after with soap and water,

when I go into a rest stop bathroom. I am surprise by the people who walk out

without washing there nasty hands.

I glove up, was taught and use the medical glove removal technique as stated above. Once done I still wash up and down the road we go!

No gloves. It is soap and water after. I think people believe gloves saves soAp and water. Nope. Soap and water is cheap. JMHO

I learned after just a few trips to leave the connectors attached to the hose. So the only thing I now touch is the out side of the hose. I just attach the connectors to their fittings, and I'm done.
However. I only dump at sites with FULL hookups. That way I can take my time, and do it right.

No I do NOT use dump stations. When we dry camp on the Blue ridge Parkway. We use the CG facilities. I will not go to a dump station. I'm too LAZY, and, It's my TT, I use it the way I want.

Veebyes wrote:
Lemme see if I have this right for those who use gloves.

First you put the gloves on, handling the outside of them as you do so. You do all of your business not being all that care because you have gloves on, right?

Finally you take them off which involves handling them on the outside to do so & store the 'contaminated' gloves away. You probably do not wash your hands because you have been wearing gloves.

Now for the gloveless. We do all of the dirty barehanded however we are likely to be very careful when doing so. Further, after the job is done, at a minimum we wash our hands or use a disinfectant hand cleaner kept in a very convenient place before handling anything else.

the gloves (rubberized) give a better grip. Heck I store them with the stinky slinky, in the 5" vinyl fence post, which has been rinsed out when I disconnect.

No gloves here either. Use nitrile gloves for fuel, however

No gloves here either. Rinse wash and go.

If in a full hookup site I don't wear them, but if using a dump station I use the disposable latex gloves. I have seen how some use the dump station and no way am I touching anything around it with my bare hands. I ALWAYS wash my hands after handling any of that equipment. Tim

why worry about your hands? just think of all the grud thats on your shoes.

While I am not a total pig....I am of the mind that people need to build up immunity to disease, germs, bacteria etc......I know people that are anal about cleanliness...wash, wash, wash...scrub, scrub, scrub.....They are also the people that get sick all the time. They take pills for every ailment, slight headache or whatever....
I can honestly say, that I have rarely taken an aspirin, hardly ever get a headache.....rarely get sick. I figure I have a pretty good immune system

All that said....I rise my sewer hose off pretty good with the campground dump station hose then put it away...I do have some rubber gloves handy if I remember to put them on.