Back to cinema horror. I don't know about our seats, but according to this, cinema seats are usually contaminated with E.coli bacteria. That's what you get in shit. I would routinely see people duck out of an auditorium to visit the toilet and there's no way they were in there long enough to wash their hands. That's probably where it comes from. Then people would happily eat popcorn or sausages in a bun with the hand that was gripping the armrest. Ever wondered why the seats in a cinema are all a dark colour but not black? Usually crimson or navy blue? It's because those are the colours that don't show the dirt. I don't recall seeing a carpet shampoo machine or steam cleaner being deployed once in the time I worked there. Given the heavy traffic, when you sat on one of those seats you were probably sitting in the combined sweat, shite, jizz, blood, technicolour sick, and so forth of a thousand people before you. Add to this spilled drinks and ground-in ice cream. You know what happens if you leave food waste out in the open? That's right, it gets mouldy and bacterial. And us with our flimsy brushes. I tell you, we were polishing turds. Literally. Oh, and guess what the break room / locker room was furnished with for us? Three rows of cinema seating that was too physically knackered to be acceptable for the punters. See, we'd clean and scrub out all the metalwork from the popcorn and sausage trays and so forth every evening before we closed because if they got mouldy we'd be condemned and closed down. But the seating in the auditoriums? Nobody cares, as long as there's not visible crap all over it. ===== rcvrd jan 2021