Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 12:54     Subject: Re:Don't like to "sign with finger"
OP why not just wash your hands after touching public surfaces? That's a good practice to do anyway. I am careful about it and I very very rarely get sick.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 12:08     Subject: Re:Don't like to "sign with finger"
Get pacifier wipes. They are smaller than baby wipes and have food grade cleaning agents on them. You can take one out, wipe it over the screen, sign and then discard the wipe. I think I saw them at BRU for something like $3.99 for a package of 40. You can buy them on-line in bulk (6 packets) and always keep one in your purse.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 12:04     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
The stylus idea is a good one, thanks.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 11:59     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
Anonymous wrote:OP here: I don't put my hands on the shopping cart unless I have gloves on or have already wiped it off with the wipes or it's been sitting in the sun; I don't put my hands on the counter (the same one people sneeze and cough on all day); I don't put my hands on the buttons for the card reade;, I never paid with checks for the last 30 years, and I always have my pen anyway. And yes, THIS new thing is what I am worried, actually more curious, about because I read that study that one of the dirtiest things in the mall are the ATM buttons and the escalator. The germs do not get in deeper, ha, ha, but I am pretty sure that there is a much higher incidence and concentration of germs on that small ipad-like screen.

I agree that cash is pretty much the dirtiest thing you can touch; and I also agree and accept that life is a big petrie dish, but I'm not happier nor resigned about it. Isn't it weird to try to actually sign your name with your finger on that small space? So gross and childlike.



I think you need to buy yourself a big transparent bubble and live inside it. Take baths in Purell. Wear a surgical mask in the bubble. Coat everything in Clorox. I mean, what use is your immune system and acting like a normal human being? Those things are overrated.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 11:55     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
OP here: I don't put my hands on the shopping cart unless I have gloves on or have already wiped it off with the wipes or it's been sitting in the sun; I don't put my hands on the counter (the same one people sneeze and cough on all day); I don't put my hands on the buttons for the card reade;, I never paid with checks for the last 30 years, and I always have my pen anyway. And yes, THIS new thing is what I am worried, actually more curious, about because I read that study that one of the dirtiest things in the mall are the ATM buttons and the escalator. The germs do not get in deeper, ha, ha, but I am pretty sure that there is a much higher incidence and concentration of germs on that small ipad-like screen.

I agree that cash is pretty much the dirtiest thing you can touch; and I also agree and accept that life is a big petrie dish, but I'm not happier nor resigned about it. Isn't it weird to try to actually sign your name with your finger on that small space? So gross and childlike.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 10:48     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
Anonymous wrote:Pay with cash.


Cash is perhaps the dirtiest thing you can touch, absent swishing your hand through a toilet bowl.

OP, life's a big petrie dish. The sooner you accept it, the happier you'll be.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 10:42     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
Pay with cash.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 05:47     Subject: Re:Don't like to "sign with finger"
Yeah and some people insist that their peas not touch their potatoes. Whatever. It freaks out OP and that must have been why the thread was started.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 04:08     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
Anonymous wrote:You put your hands on the shopping cart, your hands on the counter (the same one people sneeze and cough on all day), your hands on the buttons for the card reader, your hands on the pen to sign your checks for the last 30 years of your life. And THIS is what you are worried about? Do you think the germs get in deeper because your finger is sliding along the glass???


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2012 00:19     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
You put your hands on the shopping cart, your hands on the counter (the same one people sneeze and cough on all day), your hands on the buttons for the card reader, your hands on the pen to sign your checks for the last 30 years of your life. And THIS is what you are worried about? Do you think the germs get in deeper because your finger is sliding along the glass???
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2012 23:03     Subject: Re:Don't like to "sign with finger"
If it really bothers you, you could carry your own stylus. I bought one from Amazon for (occasional) use with the ipad. I think it would work fine.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2012 22:58     Subject: Re:Don't like to "sign with finger"
Just carry one of those $1 bottles of hand sanitizer in your purse/pocket and use some after touching the pad.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2012 20:54     Subject: Re:Don't like to "sign with finger"
Maybe it is capturing your fingerprint and not your signature?
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2012 19:50     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
just use gloves...

don't forget to put yourself inside a bubble too.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2012 19:30     Subject: Don't like to "sign with finger"
Went shopping today, and maybe this is not new but it was new to me: had to "please sign with finger" on the checkout contraption at Nordstroms when I used my credit card. Even though I know that the old type of "signing" with that yucky pretend pen on the charge station was alway less than pristine, rubbing my finger in the little space where all other charging customers had previously done the same thing seemed so gross. Maybe I should wear gloves with that first finger pad on them from now on when I shop?

Is this just a sign of the times, and should I just not complain about yet another trivial inconvenience? Does anyone like this? Wonder if it is more or less prone to fraud....I don't know enough about it to conjecture. I can see that it does give the check out clerk more mobility, so maybe that is the advantage?