Gross: change IN his mouth!

[Erin]

Just as an added bonus (I looked it up on Google and I heard it through a doctor last week when I spent many, many hours at the hospital with my girlfriend) mono is spread through saliva. That's why it's called the "kissing disease." As I heard the doctor explain it (cause the girl was all worried), you can get it alot of ways like at a food establishment that didn't properly wash their dishes (utensils, glasses, etc). I believe that he said it had to be passed saliva-saliva though.

It is passed saliva-saliva, but it's a virus, it can spread thru the air too. I'm of the opinion that I got mono from some customer who didnt wash his hands, or had handed me spitty money...but there is a chance that I got it from just going out shopping.

I had started showing mono symptoms just before christmas 1995...didnt realize till the middle of january that I was really sick. So sick that I burst into tears when the new owner of the McD's I worked at asked me to clean the breakroom some other nimrod had trashed. (ketchup on the walls!! mustard on the floor!!) I was so exhausted and didnt realize there was something wrong with me until that day when I kept bursting into tears for no reason. (well, that new owner was a prick...so him being there was probably a good reason for me to be crying)

[ladodger34]

It is passed saliva-saliva, but it's a virus, it can spread thru the air too. I'm of the opinion that I got mono from some customer who didnt wash his hands, or had handed me spitty money...but there is a chance that I got it from just going out shopping.

According to the CDC:

"Transmission of this virus through the air or blood does not normally occur." So yeah, it could happen through the air, but mono isn't an airborne virus.

[Seanette]

I do that at the movies sometimes. I have a bad habit of holding things in my mouth (like pens, notes, small things I'm using at the time...), and if I'm digging in my purse for something or other, the ticket's gonna go there. Fortunately, I'm not too nasty about it - I only use my teeth to get a hold on a small corner, so it's not soaked in drool or anything. And I only bite down on the stub side, so the ticket taker doesn't have to keep my saliva. I don't usually even realise I'm doing it, because I've done it since I was a little kid, but I guess now I'll be a bit more conscious about that.

I never, ever, EVER put money in my mouth, though. Eeeurgh.

I don't even use my teeth to hold an object in my mouth if I can possibly help it. I use my lips, and make sure everything stays as dry as possible for the duration.

[RailroadMonster]

No offense, but I'm glad I wasn't a later customer, getting that money as change for a purchase...

Think of it this way: That infected money touched other money in the till, thereby infecting it. The newly infected money goes to customers who spend it at and x amount of stores, infecting a y amount of new money...



"... and THAT, Timmy, is why you should NEVER put money in your mouth!"

[Anakah]

I saw this old man in the line picking his nose. His finger clear up to his brain. Digging for gold. Anyway, he comes to my window and I try as hard as I can NOT to touch the booger and what happens? I happen to grab the corner that he wiped the huge greeny on. My gag reflexes almost got the best of me. Luckily we keep the hand wipe packets up at the frontline. Usually for the "guests" but we use them from time to time.

[symposes]

Think of it this way: That infected money touched other money in the till, thereby infecting it. The newly infected money goes to customers who spend it at and x amount of stores, infecting a y amount of new money...

Does anyone remember the Upright Citizens Brigade, and the ass-penny sketch?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+pennies&hl=en

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I'll admit to holding my cash in my mouth when I'm juggling stuff like that, but I suck my lips into my mouth and hold the cash with the skin above and below the lips...this way the money doesn't get the least little bit of spit on it.

[DigitalEngine]

When I was a grocery cashier I had a few times when I was paid from a womans bra

Heh. This is very, very common in this country.
AND the majority of women who put money in their bras are very, very old women.

Imagine handling bills that's been in contact with sagging, wrinkled boobies

[blaubent]

The two worse thing's I've had:

A streak of blood on the dollar bill. Gagged. Called the manager after the guy left. The manager had to take the dollar out of the till.

Someone had their money in their sock. Took off their shoe and sock. She had to reach to the very bottom of her sock to retrieve her money.

With the money-in-the-bra deal, happens all the time.

Hasn't anyone every heard of a wallet, or even a purse? For crying out loud. For as much as they spend on stupidity, they could have a nice money carrying device by now!

[Mark Healey]

When I was a grocery cashier I had a few times when I was paid from a womans bra

I've had that from a really old lady, in August. Eew, old lady boob sweat.

[Rapscallion]

When I was a grocery cashier I had a few times when I was paid from a womans bra

Would it be better coming from a man's bra?

I could, you know, help in research?

Rapscallion

[Mikkel]

Would it be better coming from a man's bra?

I could, you know, help in research?

Rapscallion

With fur?

[Rapscallion]

Always with fur, but on the inside.

Rapscallion

[repsac]

I've had the bra thing happen, normally that doesn't bug me that much. The worst I've had though, was a lady who kept it someplace unmentionable. (Below waist) I kid you not, the register smelled strange for DAYS.