If you drop a clean spoon on the floor do you wash it or carry on and use it.

The Continental Op

Just dropped a spoon on the floor this morning while taking it out of the drawer and just carried on and use to eat with but after reading the Shoes on the coffee table thread I just wondered how many people would stop and wash it?

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The Continental Op wrote: »

Just dropped a spoon on the floor this morning while taking it out of the drawer and just carried on and use to eat with but after reading the Shoes on the coffee table thread I just wondered how many people would stop and wash it?

Personally stop and wash, pure habit, I could have just sterilised the floor and would still wash the spoon.

Then again I often do DIY etc. and eat hand held food pre washing hands.

So more a habit than hygiene one for me.

micah537

Off course you wash the spoon.

Tomorrow's thread.

I dropped a fork in the toilet, do I need to wash it?

Gregor Samsa

I'd just wipe it on the sole of my shoe and carry on.

branie2

I'd wash it

The Continental Op

OK so it looks like I'm in the minority here .

theteal

How many seconds was it on the floor????

Alun

Only if I'd had at least three showers that day, hoovered and sterilized the kitchen twice before breakfast and washed my bed sheets immediately after getting up. Or at least, that's what I assume reading some of the clean-freak threads that keep popping up on her with annoying regularity.

drdidlittle

Lick it first... Shur its clean then before eating

PsychoPete

5 second rule

The Continental Op

theteal wrote: »

How many seconds was it on the floor????

More bounce than anything but if had been down there for 10 seconds I still wouldn't have bothered washing it.

blackbox

drdidlittle wrote: »

Lick it first... Shur its clean then before eating

..and lick it extra carefully before putting it back in the drawer.

OptimusTractor

micah537 wrote: »

Off course you wash the spoon.

Tomorrow's thread.

I dropped a fork in the toilet, do I need to wash it?

I actually managed to do that with a knife last week. It's currently buried in an undisclosed location.

The Continental Op

drdidlittle wrote: »

Lick it first... Shur its clean then before eating

Better just to wait for one of the dogs to lick it then pick it up.

The Cool

Would only wash it now because we've a dog in the house.

The Continental Op

The Cool wrote: »

Would only wash it now because we've a dog in the house.

Now I'd expect anyone to wash there hands before food preparation but do you wash your hands after stroking the dog?

messrs

The Continental Op wrote: »

OK so it looks like I'm in the minority here .

If at home in my own house I would just wipe it on a tea towel and then use it - if at work Id put it in the wash and get a clean one

The Continental Op

messrs wrote: »

If at home in my own house I would just wipe it on a tea towel and then use it - if at work Id put it in the wash and get a clean one

Won't the super cleaners here say that you should then wash the tea towel.

corner of hells

OptimusTractor wrote: »

I actually managed to do that with a knife last week. It's currently buried in an undisclosed location.

Id like to ask both of you, what were you doing with a knife and fork in the bathroom ?

Odelay

Give it a good wipe on my jeans and work away.

GreeBo

micah537 wrote: »

Off course you wash the spoon.

Tomorrow's thread.

I dropped a fork in the toilet, do I need to wash it?

Do you wash your children's hands before they put them in their mouth each time?

theteal

The Continental Op wrote: »

More bounce than anything but if had been down there for 10 seconds I still wouldn't have bothered washing it.

Yeah I'd be the same tbh. I was more making a joke based on "the x seconds rule" I knew we'd see.

Now if it was say a knife with a bit of butter/jam etc. on it, that's getting a rinse.

I've dropped me kebab on a night out and finished it, on more than one occasion.


Spoon on the kitchen floor...sterilised scalpel.

OptimusTractor

corner of hells wrote: »

Id like to ask both of you, what were you doing with a knife and fork in the bathroom ?

Playing knifey spooney.

micah537

GreeBo wrote: »

Do you wash your children's hands before they put them in their mouth each time?

Didn't realise I had children. Can you tell me more about them?

CardBordWindow

The best argument I've heard in this situation:
I'm sure you've had someone else's unwashed genitals in your mouth before. That spoon is definitely cleaner.

KevRossi

Odelay wrote: »

Give it a good wipe on my jeans and work away.

messrs wrote: »

If at home in my own house I would just wipe it on a tea towel and then use it - if at work Id put it in the wash and get a clean one

Either of the above. If I drop half a boiled spud on the floor I'll give it a quick wipe and eat it.

I've a clean house, so I'm not worried about a bacteria infested floor.

Purple is a Fruit

Would wash it but not washing it would be fine. Prefer to give it a quick wash though.

GreeBo

micah537 wrote: »

Didn't realise I had children. Can you tell me more about them?

I hear you're unable to follow a simple scenario then now Ted?

The probably vanished from existence due to the terrible "germz"

Leg End Reject

Carry on and use it in the full knowledge that I may have walked on that spot with outdoor shoes.

I grew up in a clean house and live in a clean house, but don't use disinfectant. My immune system takes care of anything dodgy, no external chemicals required.

machiavellianme

PsychoPete wrote: »

5 second rule

It's as many seconds as are necessary. Unless it's in the milking parlour. Then it needs a wipe first.

The Cool

The Continental Op wrote: »

Now I'd expect anyone to wash there hands before food preparation but do you wash your hands after stroking the dog?

My dog no, other dogs yes I'd always wash my hands soon after. Is that weird?

Mind you, I pee so often my hands are generally washed loads anyway.