Disposable Gloves Have Many Applications

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 fiction writers and real life detectives soon incorporated hand coverings into their plotting and thinking. Not only did they start looking for gloves when no fingerprints were present. They also decided that crimes committed by a glove-wearing criminal were probably premeditated. Exceptions were considered in cold weather when everyone was trying to keep their hands warm.

In time, hand coverings themselves became evidence. When you found an expensive leather glove spattered with blood hidden in someone’s sock drawer in a West End tenement you could draw conclusions. You could conclude that the owner of the sock drawer was not stupid enough to hide evidence in his own apartment and therefore is probably being framed.

The also figured out that the Lord of the manor who owned the bloody object probably wasn’t guilty either. He is too sensible to ruin an expensive piece of goods even in a fit of passion. However his ne’er do well nephew Percy is another story.

He might also borrow his dad’s gloves and carelessly leave them at the home of his mistress, Tawdry Sue. There, her boyfriend, Othello Jones, could discover them. Othello might actually be dumb enough to hide forensic evidence in his own sock drawer, but maybe 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.

Of course once they have been used the disposables still have to be disposed of. You don’t want to put them someplace where they will arouse suspicion like in a garbage can. You should probably just stash them in your sock drawer.

Disposables can also be useful to people who have no criminal intent. They can keep germs on your hands from getting where they don’t belong. They also keep germs and other yucky things from getting on your hands. Doctors long ago discovered that disposables are more sanitary than reusable.

Disposable hand wear is also great for kitchen activities like pulling taffy. Germy fingers never touch candy. Fingers don’t get sticky and sticky fingerprints don’t get all over the walls and furniture like a particular grisly crime scene.

Hand coverings that can be tossed out are great for working with anything that you don’t want to get on your hands. Cleaning greasy car parts or unplugging drains or cleaning up after Rover are tasks that you don’t want anything left over from. Just take off your disposable gloves and throw them away. But don’t put them in your sock drawer. A popular type of these gloves has always been the vinyl gloves.