Friday, July 25, 2014

Buckets of hand sanitizer

Ground Zero will be Disney World. I am not talking about Ground Zero of a terrorist attack. I am talking about the Zombie Apocalypse. Or some major pandemic epidemic's ground zero will be the giant petri dish we lovingly call Disney World. 

People come from all around the world to Disney World and they cough and they sneeze and they puke and they do vial things in the restrooms.

I saw one well dressed middle aged woman pick her nose, look at it, then wipe it on the back of a chair. One gentleman passed by us as we were eating at a table and sneezed on our table. We have seen so many people puke at Disney that we have learned to avoid wet spots on the sidewalk - especially if the wet spot includes corn. One year we saw a lady, while giving a child a piggy back ride, bend down mid-stride, puke on the sidewalk, and keep going without missing a step. 

We have often found puke floating in the resort pools. One year, we were crammed in a line waiting for Fantasia and a teenager bent over and puked on everyone's shoes. We sanitize the bottoms of our shoes everyday when we get home. Most people aren't as careful as we and they just trample through the puke. It is on the bottom of their shoe and you can see the puke track: step, step, step. Spreading it through the park.

I had one guest walk up and ask me a question and he smelled like a combination of crap and beer. I had to fight my gag reflex, hold back my watering eyes, and politely try to answer his question.

I saw a cast member sneeze into his hands and then say "I shouldn't have done that, I don't have and hand sanitizer" to which the coworker said "You are supposed to sneeze into your elbow." Immediately the cast member sneezed again, attempting to use his elbow, but completely missed. And why is sneezing in you elbow better? How many of us sanitize our elbows, or, go wash our elbows at the restroom sink? 

Think about all the things we touch at the parks: railings, door handles, elevator buttons, video games, and more! And we spend days in the park, shoulder to shoulder and crammed together with sick people from around the world! 

We use buckets of hand sanitizer. We Lysol everything we take to the park. We change our clothes as soon as we return. Germaphobic? Perhaps. But when everyone else gets the zombie plague, we plan to be among the survivors.

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