Billinaz
Moving within sight of Port Canaveral!
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2003
Makes me start to wonder how clean a drinking fountain is in a mall or a school or the airport.
Bring a blacklight to your next hotel stay.
That may scar you for life.
Makes me start to wonder how clean a drinking fountain is in a mall or a school or the airport.
Bring a blacklight to your next hotel stay.
That may scar you for life.
So... they had paper straws? Which ship?personal moralities aside, I just got back from my first cruise, and I hated every element of the experience of drinking from a paper straw, the taste the feel the fact that if I left the straw in the drink too long it would collapse ughhh!
So... they had paper straws? Which ship?
So how do you push the lever to dispense the drink?
And now that the liquid that has been sloshing around with the liquid that includes your saliva, you are indeed touching that to the dispenser.
The "environmental issues" you refer to are overblown and out of the realm of reality. People make up way too much out of a very minor thing.
Nobody reads the entire thread, it drones on with the same thing if people trying to justify their personal feelings and force them onto others.
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FYI - At least on the Fantasy (can't speak for others), the drink refill station does not have levers, but a button you push above the spout. So no levers to come in contact with your cup at all.I'm sure you know how a Tervis tumbler works. The rim of the cup is covered by the lid. The only thing your mouth comes into contact with is the lid itself. Never the cup. Even if I did touch the outside of the cup to the lever, it's not the part that my mouth ever comes into contact with. Further, I wrap my hand around the cup and use the back of my fingers to trip the lever. I do this often, even with paper cups. Finally, I have no idea what you are talking about with respect to sloshing saliva, since the inside of the cup is never coming into contact with the rim.
If anyone has information for me that could help me understand why refilling a Tervis directly and not using the paper cups is really a problem, then I'll consider changing my approach. I really can't see the issue.
As for the sign, I completely agree that if I'm going to use one of their cups, it should be a fresh one. The bigger issue is reusing the paper cups.
I'm sure you know how a Tervis tumbler works. The rim of the cup is covered by the lid. The only thing your mouth comes into contact with is the lid itself. Never the cup. Even if I did touch the outside of the cup to the lever, it's not the part that my mouth ever comes into contact with. Further, I wrap my hand around the cup and use the back of my fingers to trip the lever. I do this often, even with paper cups. Finally, I have no idea what you are talking about with respect to sloshing saliva, since the inside of the cup is never coming into contact with the rim.
If anyone has information for me that could help me understand why refilling a Tervis directly and not using the paper cups is really a problem, then I'll consider changing my approach. I really can't see the issue.
As for the sign, I completely agree that if I'm going to use one of their cups, it should be a fresh one. The bigger issue is reusing the paper cups.
FYI - At least on the Fantasy (can't speak for others), the drink refill station does not have levers, but a button you push above the spout. So no levers to come in contact with your cup at all.
I agree with this sentiment and you'd be hard pressed to find hand sanitizer in my house. That being said, there are situations where you have to be extra careful. Cruise ships are close quarters and if you are exposed to something once, you will probably be exposed many times. Even the best immune system can only do so much.Some of us grew up when paper straws were the norm and playing in the dirt didn't mean we would get all kinds of diseases. Most of the people that I know that are obsessed with hand sanitizers and the like are the ones that are getting sick all the time. I won't use something that is clearly unclean but I won't worry about everything either. I travel mass transit in NYC for work and there really is no way to avoid touching the same surfaces that millions of others have touched before me. I'm an advocate for letting kids be kids and giving their immune system the exposure it needs to protect them throughout life.
I agree with this sentiment and you'd be hard pressed to find hand sanitizer in my house. That being said, there are situations where you have to be extra careful. Cruise ships are close quarters and if you are exposed to something once, you will probably be exposed many times. Even the best immune system can only do so much.
Therefore I buy a thing of hand sanitizer before we leave, I use the cups provided to fill like, and I take the wipes at the restaurants.
Disney is my happy place. Where I go to relax and not think about death, disease, homelessness, natural disaster and the like. But I’m so willing to raise money on the site for a disaster, child who has outgrown their wheelchair, a fire that destroyed a home while the family was on a cruise.just something to consider next time you take a plastic straw - View attachment 326641View attachment 326642