Who Washes Their Hands???

For some odd reason I keep tab on everyone that chooses wether or not to wash their hands. In particular, I keep tabs on those that work in my same building and use the same bathroom. It's very interesting what I found. People are funny creatures; we go along with life (usually whatever the media tells us is good) and don't like change unless it's more convenient for us.

Where I work we have what you might call "old fashioned" equipment. It's still great condition, however lacks the modern "conveniences" of automatic everything. The only thing automatic about it are the standard urinals (good thing too). When I got the job working in this building, every time I would go to the bathroom (generally 2-3 times per day) I would keep tabs on everyone that goes in and out during the time I was in there because I was interested to see how many people really washed their hands. I remember faces to avoid while in public if they chose not to wash with soap. Not to get into dirty details but...almost every guy that goes #2 washes their hands with water, but no soap! YUK! I found that about 1/4 guys washed their hands, and in a day's work only 1/4 of those that washed their hands did so using soap. Even more frightening, I was the ONLY one that did so with soap and for at least 20 seconds while thoroughly scrubbing!

As soon as the word spread round that the H1N1 "Swine" Flu was spreading around about 95% of the guys washed with water (at least) and each day more and more would use soap. It's unfortunate that a "scare" like that would cause people to be more conscious about washing their hands. Now that the "Swine Scare" has died down quite a bit, things are back to normal. I have gotten to the point that I flush the toilet with my foot, turn on/off the sink with my knuckle & kick open the door (softly) to avoid all the grossness on the handles. I hope that you can pay more attention to peoples habits that might affect your health. If you are one that doesn't wash their hands with soap after using the bathroom...please be considerate of others. That's all for now. Read this interesting article: (please forgive me for using this source...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20823288/)