Killer keyboards

(PHOTO: My entirely spiffy and clean keyboard with Anne’s very clean hands)

And from the journal of the bleeding obvious, keyboards are dirty! Probably not your own laptop keyboard (unless you have terrible personal hygeine in which case ew, go wash), but the keyboards on your desk at work. Particularly if you hotdesk. Apparently they’re teeming with grot, grime, and bacteria that make you puke or die. More grot in fact than a loo seat. Yuk. know that I’m pretty clean, but ‘my’ desk is staffed 24 hours a day, and I can’t vouch for the overnight folk. That said, I do tend to eat my lunch at my desk and my lunch usually involves crumbs which can’t be good for the cleanliness of my keyboard. Half of me thinks this story is like that urban myth about London Underground seats being covered in poo and dead rats (more info from Snopes.com), and the other half thinks it’s a good wake up call and an excuse to waste a half hour cleaning up my workstation. And the other half doesn’t want to think about this anymore because it’s rather unsavoury…