Have you ever blown your nose with toilet paper after entering a bathroom stall? Did you ever think about the fact that the same hands that just touched the lock on the stall also just touched the toilet paper that is now… touching your face?!? Ewww!
Have you ever thought about how disgusting it is when someone dips a chip into a bowl of salsa, takes a bite, then flips it around to dip the “clean” end? Um… hello…!? Why do I want all the germs from your hand, which are now on the chip, going back into that bowl of salsa? You have just contaminated the whole supply, you sloppy fool!
Do you ever think about all the germs on your clothes – especially on the seat of your jeans, or worse… on the button on your pants or your belt buckle? When you undo your belt and unbutton your pants to take them off before you go to bed, do you consider all the germs that reside there? Think about it: hand touches bathroom door handle, hand touches stall lock, hand assists with clean up after you do your bathroom business, then hand pulls up zipper and buttons pants. Hand gets washed. Zipper, button, belt buckle don’t. These are the same zipper, button and belt you later touch as you change into your clean, comfy pajamas. This means that the hand that is continually reaching into the communal bowl of popcorn you are mauwing down on as you watch the fourth re-run of that episode of Atlanta Housewives where Crazy Bitch A pulls Crazy Bitch B’s wig off is covered in millions of particles of germs undetectable to your naked eye.
Can I say…Yuuuck!?!
Yup, I do think about those things actually. Thats why we have a wash your hands the minute you enter the house policy, we dont sit on the bed in "street clothes" and Ryan must take a shower before touching the boys after taking the bus home from work! Also, Mom says "Thats why I take a shower before I got to bed"....Which is my thought and what I do but as I shower every night I think to myself "What good it is that I am showering before bed but Ryan doesnt?!?" Pwah!!
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It's not about physical contamination, you goof... it's about being cognizant of what other people's grubby ass hands have touched after they've, say, picked their noses, wiped their butts, scratched their you know whats...
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