E.Coli in the crock pot.

A word of explanation: E. Coli is a bacteria normally found in the colon.

So, my classmates and I eat lunch together on Thursdays, we have stuff like burritos or sandwiches and everyone brings something. Last week we decided to have soup, I agreed to bring soup mix but asked if someone else could bring a crock pot since I don't own one.

One of my classmates said, "Oh, there's one that stays in the graduate room that anybody can use. That's what I used last week to heat up the taco meat."

Feeling a little perplexed and more than a little apprehensive I asked, "Where do you wash it?"

"Oh, I just washed it in the bathroom sink."

Um, that would be the bathroom sink in the men's restroom, male classmate. Yikes!! What are you telling me?? I ate food from a pot washed in a nasty men's room sink??? Aaaagh!

It wouldn't matter if it had been the women's restroom!! I just know there's E. Coli everywhere, those restrooms are not cleaned daily and certainly not in the middle of the day after a parade of students and staff have wandered through and distributed bacteria everywhere, not to mention aerosolization everytime a toilet's flushed.

I feel nauseous thinking about it.

In his defense, he said he wiped the pot with clorox wipes after he washed it. It's still gross.