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Mind Your Manners In The Air

You never know when a potential client might be sitting in the airline seat next to yours. So behave. A recent poll by Cheapflights.com found that incessant talkers are the most offensive airline etiquette violators. When asked about other offensive behavior, respondents to the Airplane Etiquette Poll rated these as the top violations:

• Rapid Recliner: Wheels up, in your lap (20 percent)

• Arm Rest Hog: Elbow wrestling, you lose (12 percent)

• Carry-on Champ: Bashes bags left and right (12 percent)

• Seat Back Grabber: Grabs your seat to get up (11 percent)

• Who Me? Yes, you; turn off your cell phone (10 percent)

Mr. Clean

Germs are working overtime at the office, especially at women’s desks. A recent study led by the University of Arizona’s Dr. Charles Gerba compared surface germs to determine whose offices are “germier,” men’s or women’s. The researchers evaluated a variety of surfaces. Study findings revealed that germ levels were fairly gender-neutral on desktops and phones, but computer mice and keyboards had three to four times more bacteria in women’s offices than in men’s. The gap widened further when it came to desk drawers, where women’s desks held seven times more germs than men’s.



 

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