Disposable Gloves Have Copious Uses

The most obvious use for disposable gloves is keeping your fingerprints off of things. This is the use that would naturally spring to the mind of a certain type of person. Virtually all criminals and anyone who has ever read a detective story knows you shouldn't leave you fingerprints at the scene of the crime or on the murder weapon.

Law enforcement figured out some time in the late 1800s that fingerprints could be used to identify criminals. Within about five minutes, criminals started figuring out how to not leave prints with gloves such as vinyl gloves. It was a bleak day for detectives and for detective fiction.

Fortunately mystery writers and real life shamuses quickly learned to incorporate gloves into their plots and their bodies of evidence. They learned that if there were no fingerprints at the scene of the crime the perpetrator had probably planned ahead. The crime was assumed to be premeditated except in winter when anyone might be wearing gloves to keep their hands warm.

Hand coverings became some of the most exciting pieces of evidence. There is nothing like a bloody glove found in someone's sock drawer to sell newspapers. Readers quickly caught on that since most criminals are not stupid enough to hide evidence in their own home the owner of the sock drawer was probably being framed.

Lord Randall, the owner of the item in question is probably not the guilty party. He isn't about to ruin fine leather even in a fit of rage. But his ne'er do well younger son Reginald might.

He is the type who would help himself to his uncle's gloves and then forget them when he is visiting his mistress, Fifi. Of course that is where Fifi's boyfriend will find them. Fifi's boy friend might be dumb enough to commit a crime and hide the evidence in his own sock drawer but probably not.

A great deal of worry and expense can be saved when criminals carry disposables. You just slip on an inexpensive pair of latex, nitrile or vinyl gloves and go to work. Afterwards you don't have to worry about disposing of weapons or tools or wondering if you left prints at the scene or in the getaway car.

The next step is to dispose of them. You don't want to throw them away where someone might find them. Probably the best place to dispose of gloves used in the commission of a crime is in your sock drawer.

Throwaway hand coverings can also be useful to people who have no criminal inclinations. Doctors discovered that disposables are the most sanitary way to keep germs out of their patients. They also keep yucky stuff from their patients from getting on their own hands.

The same qualities make disposable gloves useful for working in the kitchen. They keep the cook's hands clean and save repeated hand washings. And they also keep germs on hands from contaminating food.

disposable gloves are also good for any kind of dirty work. They protect your hands from disgusting things when you are unclogging drains, cleaning toilets or picking up dog pooh. It's much nicer just to throw the contaminated glove away than to wash them and wash hands and risk getting germs all over everything in the process. Just don't dispose of them in your sock drawer. A popular type of these gloves has always been the vinyl gloves.