Feel like an untouchable

[Andrew555]

Went to a convenient store today. Bought a few things. After I had paid and taken my bag, the cashier reaches out and presses a big slosh of gel in her palm and proceeds to thoroughly apply it over both hands. She's probably thinking oh, farang have covid. I walk out and try to put it down to ignorance but still, I'm bothered by this action. Feel like an outcast. I know the solution is don't let it affect you but the truth is it does.

[worgeordie]

6 minutes ago, Andrew555 said:

Feel like an outcast.

Really....get over it, 

regards Worgeordie

[Dmaxdan]

Maybe she does this after serving all customers?

[Mac Mickmanus]

Did you sanitise your hands when entering the store ?

[bamboozled]

It's not you....it's the money that touches so many hands. My supplier that knows me well sprayed alcohol all over crisp, new bank notes. I would say you're digging too deep on this one and the Covid miasma is getting to you. All of us, of course.

[Pravda]

This is your biggest problem facing you today or God forbid this week?

[KeeTua]

Good to hear she's attempting to do things correctly in these difficult times. The best way for her to stay safe is to treat everyone like they are currently infected. Can't be much fun coming into constant contact with customers and their money each day.

[greenmonkey]

I see the staff in my local amazon and 7/11 do the same thing... but they do it after every customer whether they are Thai or farang. And who can blame them!

[Nojohndoe]

A shop not far from me uses a tray slid back and forth for cash while wearing disposable  gloves.

If I could look out back there are likely to be notes freshly  laundered  drying on a line and a bucket of  coins soaking in bleach !

I have wondered what the reaction would be if I wiped each purchased item down with hand gel while still in the shop. Their hand gel !

[BobinBKK]

20 minutes ago, bamboozled said:

It's not you....it's the money that touches so many hands. My supplier that knows me well sprayed alcohol all over crisp, new bank notes. I would say you're digging too deep on this one and the Covid miasma is getting to you. All of us, of course.

I have visited shops that have you put the money in a basket and they spray it with alcohol and give the change out of a different basket. I'm happy to see them spraying the money. 

[bbko]

So her using a cleansing gel during a deadly pandemic got you bother enough to post a topic about it??

[big dendrobenaes]

i once went to scb bank recently.......after finishing my business and walking to the exit door....i turned around to make sure I had not left anything......the teller was spraying the seat and area where i had been.....!!!

[RJRS1301]

41 minutes ago, Andrew555 said:

Feel like an outcast. I know the solution is don't let it affect you but the truth is it does.

You ain't that special.

Most people (thankfully) are sanitising more frequently and are more aware of hand hygiene.

You may not realise there is a pandemic at the current time. 

I would be grateful the staff are so diligent, making the chances much less of transmission from unclean hands.

Protecting herself and the next customer

When did you last sanitise?

 

 

[G Rex]

As they would say in Australia - “toughen up Princess” !

I would see this as a normal protocol to protect both herself & any other customer that she deals with - you included.    

No need to get your knickers in a twist about this in my humble opinion.

[Mac Mickmanus]

Yes , Andrew, I know the feeling .

When I walk past a dog, it barks , its because I am a felang 

Poor me 

[thaibeachlovers]

35 minutes ago, Nojohndoe said:

A shop not far from me uses a tray slid back and forth for cash while wearing disposable  gloves.

If I could look out back there are likely to be notes freshly  laundered  drying on a line and a bucket of  coins soaking in bleach !

I have wondered what the reaction would be if I wiped each purchased item down with hand gel while still in the shop. Their hand gel !

IMO they'd probably laugh AT you. Another crazy farang.

[wprime]

10 minutes ago, G Rex said:

As they would say in Australia - “toughen up Princess” !

You obviously haven't been to Australia in a while. They'll be defending him, telling him his feelings matter and the 7-eleven clerk should have sacrificed her safety to make a safe space for Andrew.

[thaibeachlovers]

15 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

You ain't that special.

Most people (thankfully) are sanitising more frequently and are more aware of hand hygiene.

You may not realise there is a pandemic at the current time. 

I would be grateful the staff are so diligent, making the chances much less of transmission from unclean hands.

Protecting herself and the next customer

When did you last sanitise?

 

 

If using a lot of sanitiser, remember to use hand cream as dry hands might crack and allow the naughty virus to get through the skin.

[G Rex]

3 minutes ago, wprime said:

You obviously haven't been to Australia in a while. They'll be defending him, telling him his feelings matter and the 7-eleven clerk should have sacrificed her safety to make a safe space for Andrew.

That is part of the reason I left!!  The asylum has been taken over by do-gooders and apologists!

[Captain Monday]

"You tink too mutt"

[Liverpool Lou]

25 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Yes , Andrew, I know the feeling .

When I walk past a dog, it barks , its because I am a felang 

Poor me 

No, it's just because the dog knows of your ridiculous spelling of "farang"!

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, it's just because the dog knows of your ridiculous spelling of "farang"!

I very much doubt that the dog reads this forum and notices how I spell the word .

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, Andrew555 said:

Went to a convenient store today. Bought a few things. After I had paid and taken my bag, the cashier reaches out and presses a big slosh of gel in her palm and proceeds to thoroughly apply it over both hands. She's probably thinking oh, farang have covid. I walk out and try to put it down to ignorance but still, I'm bothered by this action. Feel like an outcast. I know the solution is don't let it affect you but the truth is it does.

It is this self depreciative attitude which sees some foreigners in Thailand claiming ‘farangs will always be blamed’... ‘they are only interested in our money’ etc etc...

 

The singular view point fails to recognise that Thai’s experience exactly the same issues. 

 

In this case, it is very likely the girl in the conveyance store does this with each and every customer - The only ignorance on show here is that of the poster in his belief that a Thai is sanitising her hands in the midst of a global pandemic solely because she is dealing with a Westerner... A somewhat daft and immature conclusion. 

Edited August 25, 2021 by richard_smith237

[samtam]

1 hour ago, Andrew555 said:

Went to a convenient store today. Bought a few things. After I had paid and taken my bag, the cashier reaches out and presses a big slosh of gel in her palm and proceeds to thoroughly apply it over both hands. She's probably thinking oh, farang have covid. I walk out and try to put it down to ignorance but still, I'm bothered by this action. Feel like an outcast. I know the solution is don't let it affect you but the truth is it does.

When I leave a shop (two pharmacies yesterday), I use the hand gel after I have received my goods/money/card etc....and I say "thank you" and walk out. Happily the long-suffering shop staff do not take umbrage at my attempts to use all hygienic facilities on offer; in fact they might be grateful that I take the hygiene protocols seriously, and am protecting them too.

[Tanomazu]

1 hour ago, Andrew555 said:

After I had paid and taken my bag, the cashier reaches out and presses a big slosh of gel in her palm and proceeds to thoroughly apply it over both hands. She's probably thinking oh, farang have covid.

Either way she's poorly informed, as we now know that Covid is not transmitted via surface contact.

 

Washing hands and using sanitising gel will do nothing to stop anyone getting Covid, we now know.

[richard_smith237]

40 minutes ago, big dendrobenaes said:

i once went to scb bank recently.......after finishing my business and walking to the exit door....i turned around to make sure I had not left anything......the teller was spraying the seat and area where i had been.....!!!

Was this before the pandemic ???? 

[sqwakvfr]

I go to a pharmacy where the employees spray the money I hand over with sanitizer.  "The New Normal"???

[mauroest]

she doesn't know disposable gloves

[Tanomazu]

"The coronavirus primarily spreads from person to person and not easily from a contaminated surface. That is the takeaway from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which this month updated its “How COVID-19 Spreads” website."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/21/virus-does-not-spread-easily-contaminated-surfaces-or-animals-revised-cdc-website-states/

 

Evidence for lack of transmission by close contact and surface touch in a restaurant outbreak of COVID-19

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164346/

 

COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4

[Liverpool Lou]

11 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

13 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, it's just because the dog knows of your ridiculous spelling of "farang"!

I very much doubt that the dog reads this forum and notices how I spell the word .

I know that he does, he's a member here, I've read some of his posts!