I finally got the CD I've been waiting for ("Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1")! I won it on EBay on 12/26 and got an email the next day saying it had shipped. I was really expecting it would come within a few days. I was just starting to get annoyed. Turns out it took so long because it came from China. 
My husband called right after I came in with the mail. I told him it came all the way from China.
Him: "Did you wipe it down with a sanitizing wipe?"
Me: {laugh} "Well I didn't plan on licking it." {laugh} thinking about the lead issue - as has been the running joke lately.
Him: paraphrasing [Did you see the Simpsons where Bart ordered something from China? The person packing it in China sneezed on it and when Bart got the package he got sick.]
Me: not really thinking about what he's saying, preoccupied with changing pictures on sidebar of family blog...
Ten Minutes Later I get it...
OMG must sanitize hands immediately! Have I touched my face or anything since handling that package? Shit, I'm nursing the baby - did I touch her anywhere? I immediately go to the kitchen and sanitize my hands. Then sanitize the baby's hands (and paper towel dry them quick before she puts them in her mouth - because that's something else to worry about - children have died from ingesting hand sanitizer).
Of course any package from anywhere could have some kind of virus lurking inside, but somehow something coming from another country causes more suspicion, worry and concern.
And China has a bad rap lately. Of course mostly because of the high lead content in toys. But what else that they manufacture has a high content of lead? Three of us recently got new eyeglasses: mine and my daughter's were both made in China. She said so right away when she got hers, and I said "Don't lick them!" and I was half serious. For two reasons. The reality that they may in fact have a high content of lead in the paint or plastic or whatever... and it's not too far a stretch to forsee her licking anything. She licks odd things. She's a 10-year old. And in fact her old glasses had chew marks all over the ends of both arms. Thinking about it now I should check her glasses when she gets home from school.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Don't Lick It!
Hastily Drafted by Kristin at 2:06 PM
Labels: "Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1", China, Don't Lick it, hand sanitizer, lead
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