# People with urine on their hands, touching their electronic devices

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-urine-on-their-hands-touching-their-electronic-devices/747714>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 2, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-urine-on-their-hands-touching-their-electronic-devices/747714 "2016-03-02T05:31:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-urine-on-their-hands-touching-their-electronic-devices/747714/21 "2016-03-02T21:56:01Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> When I use a public mensroom I wash, but do not dry, my hands. Then when I go back to my gf/friends I dry my hands on them as proof that I washed.

Reminds me of a paranoid friend I had… possibly I know the OP in real life. Once he said “You did wash your hands right?” and I answered “Of course. See, they’re still wet.”

I think he’s still freaking out about the idea that maybe they weren’t wet because of water.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-urine-on-their-hands-touching-their-electronic-devices/747714/22 "2016-03-03T02:25:43Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> I don’t generally use my phone while in the toilet, but neither do I leave it outside. Apparently, one of my cow-orkers noticed that I don’t leave my phone at my desk when I go to the restroom. She was horrified.  
> She: You carry your phone into the bathroom?!?!?  
> Me: Um, yeah. It stays in my pocket.  
> She: But it still gets contaminated! And then you put it to your face!!!  
> Me: I also carry my face into the bathroom, and I keep it right out in the open…

Wait, you don’t wrap your face in TP before using the bathroom? Ewww.

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