Fricking ignorant customers are annoying

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BigJ

Lifer
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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: rh71
I'll say it too - I wouldn't want my dinner experience to involve someone with a noticeable contagious disease serving my food either. It's just not comfortable... there's a reason I went out to a sit-down restaurant and not a fast food place on a particular night. Sure you may be careful but I don't want to be sorry either.

Anyway, if they really pull that sh!t in some form every week, I'd be pissed too - I'll agree that much. The rest... I just don't want to be your lucky customer when you have the sores.

I totally agree!
let me popint out I think the manager or person in charge should have sent you home.
Personally coldsores and food don`t mix.
Doesn`t matter how good a waiter you are.
Personally I would never come back to an establishment ever again if i knew people who were sick or had a disease were working or more important serving me my food!

JAlexanders has a website..we should forward this thread to them.
I bet they would have a reply not to the liking of the OP...lol

so if i had aids, i wouldnt be allowed to work in a restraunt?

If you had any sort of open wound and had AIDS, you should be sent home.

AIDs is all but damn near impossible to spread through saliva/tears/sweat, so you're pretty safe.
 

Slappy00

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Jun 17, 2002
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No, it just wraps around the base of your spinal cord for the rest of your life, causing repeat outbursts and making you highly contagious even when you don't have a sore, meaning anyone you kiss might get it. And even worse, if you go down on someone, they can get it on their genitals, and now they can spread it through genital contact. So its not exactly as harmless as you make it sound, especially since there is no cure.

First off it does not wrap itself around your spine. herpies simplex auctually travels along your sensory nerve ganglion to the cell itself where by it enters a latent phase (this is why the sores always come back at the same place). The virus is then latent (producing only a small transcript) until it is compeled to come out of it's latent state and travels back to the end of the nerve (tingling feeling) and starts to reproduce in epitheial cells. When the virus is in it's productive phase (pus and blisters) it is highly contagious. Once it scabs (the virus is going back to its latent stage) the chances to spread it is not as significant.


Your condition would not bother me (mostly since I already am a carrier) but most of the public has not taken a virology course, and would rather worry about a unsightly sore than fecal coliforms in their meat.
 

OutHouse

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its a shame you got it so young. most cold sores (herpes) transmitted to kids is done so by aunt Jane kissing the young-un's. Aunt Jane got herpes by being slut back in the day and is too ignorant of what STD she has and just passes it along to who ever she plants her big juicy weeping lips on.

 

GrammatonJP

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Originally posted by: Citrix
its a shame you got it so young. most cold sores (herpes) transmitted to kids is done so by aunt Jane kissing the young-un's. Aunt Jane got herpes by being slut back in the day and is too ignorant of what STD she has and just passes it along to who ever she plants her big juicy weeping lips on.

oh that sucks.. i get them when it's really cold.. and it takes like a month to go away.. and my wife makes fun of me.. and i usually said i got it from the hooker down the block
 

amdhunter

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May 19, 2003
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Not for nothing, but I refused to let my friends "girlfriend" into my car because I had found out that she had herpes in her mouth. She was pissed, and my boy had a heart attack, but what can I do.

From what I hear, it is about 5 billion times more contagious than the flu, and I catch the flu rather easily.

I don't blame the customer one bit, even if it is blatant ignorance. I believe I would have also refused service from someone with open sores.

I am not trying to be mean to you at all man, and I wish the best on you, but paranoia has got the best of me. :)
 

OutHouse

Lifer
Jun 5, 2000
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Originally posted by: amdhunter
Not for nothing, but I refused to let my friends "girlfriend" into my car because I had found out that she had herpes in her mouth. She was pissed, and my boy had a heart attack, but what can I do.

From what I hear, it is about 5 billion times more contagious than the flu, and I catch the flu rather easily.

I don't blame the customer one bit, even if it is blatant ignorance. I believe I would have also refused service from someone with open sores.

I am not trying to be mean to you at all man, and I wish the best on you, but paranoia has got the best of me. :)

Dude, that is just stupid. unless you frenched her there is no way you would get it. ignornace is bliss isnt it? :disgust:
 

MikeMike

Lifer
Feb 6, 2000
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Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Not for nothing, but I refused to let my friends "girlfriend" into my car because I had found out that she had herpes in her mouth. She was pissed, and my boy had a heart attack, but what can I do.

From what I hear, it is about 5 billion times more contagious than the flu, and I catch the flu rather easily.

I don't blame the customer one bit, even if it is blatant ignorance. I believe I would have also refused service from someone with open sores.

I am not trying to be mean to you at all man, and I wish the best on you, but paranoia has got the best of me. :)

Dude, that is just stupid. unless you frenched her there is no way you would get it. ignornace is bliss isnt it? :disgust:

i think it is
 

RbSX

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Jan 18, 2002
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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: yobarman
LOLLERSKATES.


Well, at least it's the lesser of two evil herpes. Abreva ftw ?

yup abreva FTW, it takes me about a week to get it to go away.

I got these pills, 3 when i feel a cold score coming and another 3 12 hours later and the HSV never arrives..

 

ebaycj

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I nominate Miri and KarenMarie for "ATOT members most like Adrian Monk" award.
 

Nutdotnet

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Sorry dude, I would have wanted to move too.

I understand that you take very good care of yourself, and are very careful to not touch the sores while you have an outbreak.

HOWEVER,

If I was simply a patron in the establishment you work at, how in the world am I going to know what the circumstances are regarding your herpes? Now, I can ASSUME that you're a clean adult who accidently caught it as a child and who is very aware of how to take care of the outbreaks now, but, I can also safely assume that you were just rubbing your lips with your hands and "forgot" to wash afterwards.

You see the problem? Sure, the people were rude and that's not right. But as a customer, we expect our choice of eateries to be clean and "infection-free". By being served by somone who shows a blatant sign of herpes that feeling of "clean" is no longer there.

We all risk becoming infected with something no matter where we go and what we do...we just don't like those risks to be staring us right in the eye.
 

altonb1

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wow...some of the responses on this thread are pretty over the top. I understand the fear of transmission, but some of the OCD behaviors expressed in this thread are pretty kooky. To each his own, though....
 

JEDIYoda

Lifer
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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: rh71
I'll say it too - I wouldn't want my dinner experience to involve someone with a noticeable contagious disease serving my food either. It's just not comfortable... there's a reason I went out to a sit-down restaurant and not a fast food place on a particular night. Sure you may be careful but I don't want to be sorry either.

Anyway, if they really pull that sh!t in some form every week, I'd be pissed too - I'll agree that much. The rest... I just don't want to be your lucky customer when you have the sores.

I totally agree!
let me popint out I think the manager or person in charge should have sent you home.
Personally coldsores and food don`t mix.
Doesn`t matter how good a waiter you are.
Personally I would never come back to an establishment ever again if i knew people who were sick or had a disease were working or more important serving me my food!

JAlexanders has a website..we should forward this thread to them.
I bet they would have a reply not to the liking of the OP...lol

so if i had aids, i wouldnt be allowed to work in a restraunt?

Just by your reply you are showing your inmaturity.
There is no obvious way to tell if you had aids.
But cold sores and such even a heavy cough you should be sent home!
People who are obviously sick should be sent home.
 

miri

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Originally posted by: ebaycj
I nominate Miri and KarenMarie for "ATOT members most like Adrian Monk" award.

Heh, I have a extreme attention to detail. I notice the smallest things. I should be a detective.