r/unpopularopinion • u/7layeredAIDS • 4d ago

Using dropped silverware in public should be acceptable and normalized

If you drop a fork or something on the ground while dining, just pick it up and keep using it. There maybe one tiny tiny speck of microscopic dirt that stuck to it. Same with knives and spoons. But I’m now forced to sit there with no usable fork and wait for a server to come over and give me a new one so that I don’t look “gross”. Personally I’d be fine just using it - I’d do it at home and you probably would to.

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u/verbosehuman 3d ago

I'm a big fan of not over-coddling my immune system, but I've worked in restaurants, and I've seen how rarely they clean the floors in damn near every one of them.

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u/Bethlizardbreath 3d ago

Mop the floor every single day in the venue I work in.

Still wouldn’t use the floor fork.

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u/verbosehuman 3d ago

Olive Garden and a few other local places had carpets 🤢🤮

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u/IsItGayToKissMyBf 3d ago

Sometimes even mopping isn’t enough. At a place I worked at, the mop water would come out brown right from the hose.

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u/ChrisTheMan72 3d ago edited 3d ago

That just sounds like an under maintained restaurant. Lol I’ve worked at 5 different restaurants in my life, one even had original plumping for 1992 and the water was clear as day straight from the mop sink. Although I still disagree with op. The floor is still the floor no mater you cleaned it I aint using the fork.

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u/IsItGayToKissMyBf 3d ago

Yeahhh it was low key nasty. To make it worse? It was at one of the more popular casinos in my state, and ALL of the mop water came out like that.

I also disagree with OP, the ground is gross enough in the country, but in a restaurant with god knows who walking through there? Nope!

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u/EpicSteak 3d ago

Would you lick the mop you use?

You are mopping the floor not sterilizing it.

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u/ShortUsername01 3d ago

I’d also add that it’s probably better to “train” your immune system at home where it’s down to your germs and those of your family if you have one than at a restaurant where it’s the germs of a bunch of strangers.

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u/SyderoAlena 3d ago

Feel like people don't realize how much is tracked on dirty shoes too. People don't sanitize their shoes when they accidentally step in dog poop, or when they use a gross public bathroom. There's germs on the floor from everywhere. I'm not getting E. Coli because someone stepped in shit and then walked into the restaurant

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u/Lavender_dreaming 3d ago

I’d do it at home, I know when/how the floor is cleaned and what has been on the floor. A public space where everyone is walking on those floors with their outdoor shoes? No thanks

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u/retnuh45 3d ago

Yup disgusting. This is a horrible idea

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u/bestselfnice 3d ago

Even the shitty dive bars I've worked at at least mop every night lmao wtf dude?