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Honey Dew

The sun is a natural sanitizer. Using a shopping cart that has been setting in the sun seems like a safer choice to me. What do you think?

Posted - August 5, 2021
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  • I would still use a sanitizing wipe on the handle .. but yes, being in the sun is helpful.
      August 5, 2021 6:02 AM MDT
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  • 3024
    Good idea.
      August 5, 2021 6:12 AM MDT
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  • 1952
    I agree I would still use sanitizer, never can be too safe. :)
      August 5, 2021 6:40 AM MDT
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  • 44648
    I would lick it clean first.
      August 5, 2021 6:56 AM MDT
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  • 1952
     : )
      August 5, 2021 8:42 AM MDT
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  • 3024
      August 5, 2021 2:50 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      The lady in the picture looks kind of cute, BB!  Listen, once she’s over the volatile retching jags, the dry heaves have passed, and after she gets all cleaned up, brushes, flosses, gargles, and has freshly showered, do your ol’ buddy Randy D a huge favor and introduce us to each other, please.  Thanks!

      (Cough, cough.)



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      August 5, 2021 10:53 PM MDT
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  • 3024
    Randy you have a one track mind.  :   I
      August 5, 2021 10:55 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      Nooooooo!  I just happen to be an appreciator of women’s finer points, that’s all! Oops, I have to go; someone is trying to escape from the cell block again leave work early before her shift ends at the sandwich assembly line. 


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      August 5, 2021 10:58 PM MDT
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  • 3024
    It's time I leave as well. 
      August 5, 2021 11:06 PM MDT
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  • 23641
    Ha!




      August 5, 2021 7:37 PM MDT
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  • 313
    u know how many people touch the shopping cart?

      August 9, 2021 12:29 AM MDT
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  • 44648
    You don't know my sense of humour.
      August 9, 2021 7:26 AM MDT
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  • 313
    k, I hope u get sick with covid 19 especially delta variant for licking shopping carts.

      August 9, 2021 2:45 PM MDT
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  • 44648
    Dude, I would never do that.
      August 9, 2021 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    It's not, really.
    Thankfully, the UV rays that kill viruses and bacteria are mostly stopped by our atmosphere.
    If those rays were not stopped, they would kill all life - not just viruses/bacteria.

    So yeah - just use a sanitizer, if you're concerned about viruses/bacteria on a surface.
      August 5, 2021 7:29 AM MDT
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  • 53524

      


      ( . . . been setting sitting in the sun . . . )

      August 5, 2021 9:01 AM MDT
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  • 17613
    If you read about this, there are a few factors that must be present for this to work.  If you leave something in your car for over 30 minutes and the inside of the car reaches 130 degrees  you can assume everything in it is sanitized.  That is from heat though.   I thought about leaving the mask I just used in the car knowing it would be germ free when I got back into the car in a few days.  However the thought of the sweat and spit is a bar to that.  I wash disposable masks.  I haven't used them but am keeping them in a separate box. 
      August 5, 2021 11:14 AM MDT
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  • 10662
    Ha!  If you knew what a shopping cart goes through in just 24 hours, you'd never use one again.  Yeah!  You could soak a cart in boiling bleach until it dissolved, and it STILL wouldn't be sanitary!   Best just to tell yourself that your sanitizing wipe made it all nice and clean.
      August 5, 2021 2:25 PM MDT
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  • 3024
    The rain washes them clean and the sun disinfects them. 
      August 5, 2021 5:11 PM MDT
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  • 10662
    Oooookaaa...     Um... I worked in grocery for 30 years.  Some of the things WE (employees) did with carts (despite any company policy) were ultra gross.  Sometimes it was so bad we had to throw the cart away (and those things are NOT cheap!).   The things people did with them (e.g. toilets, fire pits, trash bins, used sex toy and/or drug paraphernalia receptacles, homes) was downright nauseating.    Sure we had a company come once a year to power wash the metal arts, but some things just won't wash out.  We palatalized the "non usable" plastic carts, and had them trucked to a landfill.
      August 5, 2021 6:22 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Safer than what? And how can it be in the sun if the sun is setting?
      August 5, 2021 2:53 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      Er, um, there’s still sunlight while the sun is setting, so that’s how it can be in the sunlight during sunset. It’s after sunset that there is no sunlight.
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      August 9, 2021 8:11 AM MDT
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  • 2132
    I'm sure it is a germ killer. What you really need to do is save your urine until it is stale and use that as a natural cleanser. It's real lemon pledge. This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at August 9, 2021 8:30 AM MDT
      August 5, 2021 3:55 PM MDT
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