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       #Post#: 50097--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: Aleko Date: April 12, 2020, 3:58 am
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       I know that feeling - when your brain just won't stop processing
       input that you don't specially want or even would actively
       rather not have.
       #Post#: 50104--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: lakey Date: April 12, 2020, 1:19 pm
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       [quote]Re: Wash Your Hands
       « Reply #9 on: April 11, 2020, 07:38:13 pm »
       Quote
       Quote from: lakey on April 10, 2020, 02:00:05 pm
       Quote
       However, I have a coworker who I suspect never washes his hands
       after using the restroom.
       Just curious. Why do you suspect he doesn't wash his hands? Hope
       the answer isn't something gross.
       My old office was next to the restroom. As much as I tried not
       to, I could hear everything that went on in there.  ::)  I knew
       when the toilet flushed. I knew when the sink water was turned
       on (or not). Sure, it's possible that I simply missed the sink
       water running... every time he was in there. I just found it
       strange that I didn't with others. I don't know if you call that
       gross or me being a busy body or what. Trust me... I really
       didn't want any of this information.  :-\[/quote]
       Yeah, sometimes ignorance is bliss.
       #Post#: 50108--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: Dazi Date: April 12, 2020, 2:23 pm
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       [quote author=Aleko link=topic=1668.msg50097#msg50097
       date=1586681918]
       I know that feeling - when your brain just won't stop processing
       input that you don't specially want or even would actively
       rather not have.
       [/quote]
       Yeah, my desk used to be next to the bathroom. I knew who washed
       and who didn't. I also had to politely request that if you
       needed to do #2, to PLEASE go use the private hallway bathroom.
       #Post#: 50114--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: DaDancingPsych Date: April 12, 2020, 5:15 pm
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       [quote author=Dazi link=topic=1668.msg50108#msg50108
       date=1586719394]
       [quote author=Aleko link=topic=1668.msg50097#msg50097
       date=1586681918]
       I know that feeling - when your brain just won't stop processing
       input that you don't specially want or even would actively
       rather not have.
       [/quote]
       Yeah, my desk used to be next to the bathroom. I knew who washed
       and who didn't. I also had to politely request that if you
       needed to do #2, to PLEASE go use the private hallway bathroom.
       [/quote]
       I wish there had been a second bathroom to make such a request.
       Luckily, we recently moved and my office no longer near the
       restroom!
       #Post#: 50215--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: Get a looong little doggy Date: April 13, 2020, 11:26 pm
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       [quote author=DaDancingPsych link=topic=1668.msg50087#msg50087
       date=1586651893]
       [quote author=lakey link=topic=1668.msg50063#msg50063
       date=1586545205]
       [quote]However, I have a coworker who I suspect never washes his
       hands after using the restroom. [/quote]
       Just curious. Why do you suspect he doesn't wash his hands? Hope
       the answer isn't something gross.
       [/quote]
       My old office was next to the restroom. As much as I tried not
       to, I could hear everything that went on in there.  ::)  I knew
       when the toilet flushed. I knew when the sink water was turned
       on (or not). Sure, it's possible that I simply missed the sink
       water running... every time he was in there. I just found it
       strange that I didn't with others. I don't know if you call that
       gross or me being a busy body or what. Trust me... I really
       didn't want any of this information.  :-\
       [/quote]
       Oh yes, my last office job was like that!
       Right after I read your OP, I was telling my DH about years ago
       when I worked in an office with a total of 9 women. I and one of
       the other women, also in her late 20's. The two of us figured
       out that we were the ONLY ones in OUR department that ALWAYS
       washed our hands before we went back to the office. We both kept
       the paper towel we dried our hands on, in our hands to open the
       door because we were grossed out that no one else washed their
       hands. There were other offices on that floor and most of them
       didn't wash their hands either.
       I don't remember which one of us brought up the subject when we
       found ourselves to be in there by ourselves but we did have a
       little discussion. Her mother was a nurse so that is why she had
       always done that.
       Me, MY mother got MAD because I was always wasting water washing
       my hands... that I was like Grandma Dollie (her grandmother, my
       great-grandmother), always washing her hands. Well, maybe THAT
       is why Grandma Dollie lived to be 97-1/2? And was in darn good
       health up until the last year? I was lucky, EVERY single time I
       went to visit her in that last few months, she was having a GOOD
       day, recognized me and was in the present, not the past.
       And we weren't obsessive hand washers, just washed after going
       to the restroom, before cooking, eating, etc.
       #Post#: 50225--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: Dazi Date: April 14, 2020, 7:56 am
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       [quote author=Get a looong little doggy
       link=topic=1668.msg50215#msg50215 date=1586838394]
       [quote author=DaDancingPsych link=topic=1668.msg50087#msg50087
       date=1586651893]
       [quote author=lakey link=topic=1668.msg50063#msg50063
       date=1586545205]
       [quote]However, I have a coworker who I suspect never washes his
       hands after using the restroom. [/quote]
       Just curious. Why do you suspect he doesn't wash his hands? Hope
       the answer isn't something gross.
       [/quote]
       My old office was next to the restroom. As much as I tried not
       to, I could hear everything that went on in there.  ::)  I knew
       when the toilet flushed. I knew when the sink water was turned
       on (or not). Sure, it's possible that I simply missed the sink
       water running... every time he was in there. I just found it
       strange that I didn't with others. I don't know if you call that
       gross or me being a busy body or what. Trust me... I really
       didn't want any of this information.  :-\
       [/quote]
       Oh yes, my last office job was like that!
       Right after I read your OP, I was telling my DH about years ago
       when I worked in an office with a total of 9 women. I and one of
       the other women, also in her late 20's. The two of us figured
       out that we were the ONLY ones in OUR department that ALWAYS
       washed our hands before we went back to the office. We both kept
       the paper towel we dried our hands on, in our hands to open the
       door because we were grossed out that no one else washed their
       hands. There were other offices on that floor and most of them
       didn't wash their hands either.
       I don't remember which one of us brought up the subject when we
       found ourselves to be in there by ourselves but we did have a
       little discussion. Her mother was a nurse so that is why she had
       always done that.
       Me, MY mother got MAD because I was always wasting water washing
       my hands... that I was like Grandma Dollie (her grandmother, my
       great-grandmother), always washing her hands. Well, maybe THAT
       is why Grandma Dollie lived to be 97-1/2? And was in darn good
       health up until the last year? I was lucky, EVERY single time I
       went to visit her in that last few months, she was having a GOOD
       day, recognized me and was in the present, not the past.
       And we weren't obsessive hand washers, just washed after going
       to the restroom, before cooking, eating, etc.
       [/quote]
       I actually wash my hands BEFORE and after going (unless I'm at
       home and then it's just after). I kept getting recurrent UTIs
       and it turned out that it was because I handled cash all day
       long.  Money is filthy.
       #Post#: 50226--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: DaDancingPsych Date: April 14, 2020, 8:10 am
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       [quote author=Dazi link=topic=1668.msg50225#msg50225
       date=1586869005]
       [quote author=Get a looong little doggy
       link=topic=1668.msg50215#msg50215 date=1586838394]
       [quote author=DaDancingPsych link=topic=1668.msg50087#msg50087
       date=1586651893]
       [quote author=lakey link=topic=1668.msg50063#msg50063
       date=1586545205]
       [quote]However, I have a coworker who I suspect never washes his
       hands after using the restroom. [/quote]
       Just curious. Why do you suspect he doesn't wash his hands? Hope
       the answer isn't something gross.
       [/quote]
       My old office was next to the restroom. As much as I tried not
       to, I could hear everything that went on in there.  ::)  I knew
       when the toilet flushed. I knew when the sink water was turned
       on (or not). Sure, it's possible that I simply missed the sink
       water running... every time he was in there. I just found it
       strange that I didn't with others. I don't know if you call that
       gross or me being a busy body or what. Trust me... I really
       didn't want any of this information.  :-\
       [/quote]
       Oh yes, my last office job was like that!
       Right after I read your OP, I was telling my DH about years ago
       when I worked in an office with a total of 9 women. I and one of
       the other women, also in her late 20's. The two of us figured
       out that we were the ONLY ones in OUR department that ALWAYS
       washed our hands before we went back to the office. We both kept
       the paper towel we dried our hands on, in our hands to open the
       door because we were grossed out that no one else washed their
       hands. There were other offices on that floor and most of them
       didn't wash their hands either.
       I don't remember which one of us brought up the subject when we
       found ourselves to be in there by ourselves but we did have a
       little discussion. Her mother was a nurse so that is why she had
       always done that.
       Me, MY mother got MAD because I was always wasting water washing
       my hands... that I was like Grandma Dollie (her grandmother, my
       great-grandmother), always washing her hands. Well, maybe THAT
       is why Grandma Dollie lived to be 97-1/2? And was in darn good
       health up until the last year? I was lucky, EVERY single time I
       went to visit her in that last few months, she was having a GOOD
       day, recognized me and was in the present, not the past.
       And we weren't obsessive hand washers, just washed after going
       to the restroom, before cooking, eating, etc.
       [/quote]
       I actually wash my hands BEFORE and after going (unless I'm at
       home and then it's just after). I kept getting recurrent UTIs
       and it turned out that it was because I handled cash all day
       long.  Money is filthy.
       [/quote]
       I have definitely seen the studies about money and the gross
       things one can find on them. But UTI?!? It makes sense, but I
       would have never made the connection.
       I am not a crazy hand washer. I would say that I did the basics.
       In fact, this virus has made me more conscious of times that I
       might want to wash more. But I will never understand how someone
       doesn't at least wash them after using a public restroom!
       #Post#: 50256--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: TootsNYC Date: April 14, 2020, 11:58 am
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       or a home restroom
       #Post#: 52917--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: Codewoman1125 Date: June 10, 2020, 3:38 pm
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       I've always been a hand washer. And a fairly thorough one,
       though not obsessive. I watched a Mythbusters episode once where
       they studied germs and they confirmed that wet surfaces transmit
       more germs  - so I also thoroughly dry my hands.
       When things were heating up with Covid around here, but before
       the stay-at-home happened, I began washing my hands even more
       thoroughly but I think was the only one. Now that I'm back to
       the office* I seldom see anyone else in the restroom. However, I
       have seen one woman in there two times who still just "spritzes"
       her hands - not really washing them. I've been telling myself
       she uses hand sanitizer before she touches anything.
       *we're at 50% capacity as recommended and practicing social
       distancing.
       #Post#: 52922--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Wash Your Hands
       By: oogyda Date: June 10, 2020, 8:02 pm
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       [quote author=Codewoman1125 link=topic=1668.msg52917#msg52917
       date=1591821511]
       I've always been a hand washer. And a fairly thorough one,
       though not obsessive. I watched a Mythbusters episode once where
       they studied germs and they confirmed that wet surfaces transmit
       more germs  - so I also thoroughly dry my hands.
       When things were heating up with Covid around here, but before
       the stay-at-home happened, I began washing my hands even more
       thoroughly but I think was the only one. Now that I'm back to
       the office* I seldom see anyone else in the restroom. However, I
       have seen one woman in there two times who still just "spritzes"
       her hands - not really washing them. I've been telling myself
       she uses hand sanitizer before she touches anything.
       *we're at 50% capacity as recommended and practicing social
       distancing.
       [/quote]
       The biggest think I have had to accept through this pandemic is
       that I cannot control other people's actions.  I can, however,
       control my own.  I can wash my own hands an refrain from
       touching my face.
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