Tale of ACK!

ACK!!! Just ACK!!!

Yesterday a mom with her daughter came into where I work. The daughter was eating a bag of Goldfish Crackers (read poisonous source of gluten) and as unsupervised children tend to do, she was touching absolutely everything with her gluten-contaminated hands.

There was nothing I could do about all the paper goods she contaminated, but after she left I had to go around and clean off all the hard surfaces I could find. I absolutely HATE it anyway when kids start messing up the greeting card displays (what ever happened to "don't touch it - it isn't yours and you are not going to buy it" ?????) and not only did she contribute to that mess but she did it with gluteny hands, leaving an invisible but toxic trail behind her.

THEN, I get to church to work with the AWANA Sparkies, and here comes a whole family eating their dinner on the run as they came in.

PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank God for my co-worker who 1) understands my situation because of food intolerances in her family and 2) after eating the piece the family brought for her, cleaned off the table, doorknobs, etc, where the pizza had been.

Think of gluten as dog poop. Would you want to touch it? Would you eat anything that had come in contact with it?

NO?

Now you know how I feel.