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[starlagurl]

This is an eye-opening undercover video of the lazy habits of hotel room cleaning staff. At three different hotels, the cleaning staff do not use soap, and in one case, the lady uses potentially poisonous "blue stuff" to clean them!

Wow, you have to see this... What do you do??? How can you trust the cleanliness of your glasses? It's amazing!

Link to the video on Eyeflare

[mmbcross]

Life is full of risks. Unless you take extreme precautions, you must trust your own body to protect you from these unhygienic practices. If practices such as this are done in U.S. hotels, imagine what happens in third world countries. When you put your head on the pillow, perhaps thousands of others have done exactly the same on that very pillow. All that's protecting you is a dubious pillow case. What's going on in the kitchen of the restaurant you are eating in? What's in the hot dog you just ate? What are the farmers feeding the cattle or spraying on the produce before it gets to the supermarket?

If you take extreme precautions all your life, you would go berserk. That's what antibodies are for. Regrettably if you live too clean a life, you have fewer antibodies. My Mum always said "a little dirt does no one any harm" as I crunched through sand in my lettuce leaf.

[starlagurl]

Yeah I know, but it's still gross... how hard is it to collect the glasses and take them down to the kitchen to wash them?

Plus, these are expensive hotels compared to the dirty hostel in Indonesia! You are paying for at LEAST some clean glasses, don't you think?

If I went to a hostel in Indonesia, I wouldn't expect clean glasses, but I sure as crap would at the Sheraton!

[starlagurl]

Haha, yeah I know I worked in the restaurant/hotel industry too for a while. Growing up in Niagara Falls you can't avoid it...

This one was just so weird in my eyes, because cleaning a glass is so simple! All it involves is putting the cups on a little trolley thing and taking them downstairs to the dishwasher! Is that so hard?!?!