Germaphobes Unite: You Can't Lick Just Any Floor

Look, I realize that maybe I'm the quirky one here, but when the hubs and I closed down a Chinese Restaurant in L.A., and they put the chairs up for the night, they put said chairs up like this:

Tables covered in chair feet. What the...?

Hey! Call me germaphobic, but isn't that unsanitary? Aren't you supposed to put the chairs upside down on the table tops?

Look, I don't think you understand what's going on here....let's get a closer look, shall we? Morty? Can you zoom in on that table to the right?

This restaurant does not provide those splintery wooden chopsticks in the paper sleeve. This is a FINE DINING ESTABLISHMENT. With real chopsticks that are washed and placed next to the plates that are then left on the tables overnight. Next to the chair's feet.

We are a civilized people who eat off of the tables. We do not eat off of the floors. OK, some of us do, but not in public. Licking chocolate pudding off of your own floor at home where the traffic is limited to your own social network is way differtent than licking chocolate pudding off of some restaurant's floor. I mean, you don't know where that floor has been. Am I right?

And isn't allowing chairs to stand on top of tables akin to licking the floor? Well, isn't it at least like allowing people with filthy shoes to walk all over the tables, potentially brushing up against the chopsticks? And leaving the plates out all night? How would you feel if you knew bugs had partied the night before all over YOUR lunch plate?

And I'm not blasting this one restaurant, because less than a month later, we closed down a waffle joint in Sacramento when THIS occurred:

What the H. E. double-hockey sticks is this unsanitary world coming to? If I wanted the floor's germs on my table, I would walk on it myself, dragging in whatever feral cat poo, bug guts, and hobo vomit I picked up out in the parking lot on the way in.

OK, see NOW you think it's gross.










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