I don’t care about the number of germs I spread.
I am not an island. I am involved in mankind. And Rhymer Rule 192 is to try, when possible, to make any location I leave marginally letter than it was when I arrived. That’s why I always gather a couple of errant shopping carts at Walmart and put 'em in the return thing when I’m putting back my own.
I see no reason to wash my hands if I didn’t piss on them (and everything is already covered with germs anyway), but I’ll run my hands under the water for a few seconds to avoid getting the stink-eye in public restrooms.
It’s become a problem at home because my daughters have started monitoring me to see if I wash my hands before I come out of the can.
I don’t have smallpox, and everything is already swimming in germs anyway.
Yeah, I understand that but I think we are way overboard hygiene-wise in this country. I refuse to take part in it. I bathe every night, and wash my hands after pooping or as needed. Otherwise all the precious snowflakes could use to eat some dirt every now and then. It’s good for you. As a kid I had terrible allergies and only overcame them thanks to years of vaccinations and exposure training. Germs are the same way. In certain applications like food preparation or in hospitals it makes good sense to wash often and well. In day to day life though, I don’t care too much and I rely on my system to do it’s job. Catching a cold every few years innocculates me for the next three or four. I’d rather be hardy than safe, and I’m not going to encourage super bugs or play up to other people’s irrational squeamishness..
How do you know you don’t have smallpox? Have you been tested? For all you know you are an asymptomatic carrier and have doomed countless hordes of your fellow Minnesotans to disfigurement & death!
If I had meant Diogenes, your handwashing habits reveal you to be as as disgusting as an Etruscan, and if I had my way you would be exiled to Wales, I would have written that. But I didn’t mean that, so I didn’t write that. I was explaining the reasoning behind my own behavior.
This thread makes me want to go wash my hands. 
Everybody draws their line somewhere, I guess. i wash with soap and hot water and then just go out the door. I know someone who, upon coming out of the stall, first pulls down some paper towel, then washes her hands, wipes, and uses the paper towel to open the doors, throwing it out (in the trash) on her way out. This to me is so weird but she doesn’t try to push it on me and I don’t push it on her.
I kind of want to ask her what she does about the germs on her clothes. Because after all, after she goes to the bathroom and then pulls up her pants, don’t her pants get dirty? But I know what she is going to say (I wash my clothes every day) and what she actually thinks (I am not icky and germ infested like the rest of you slobs.
Me too. And I don’t want to shake hands with anybody either.
I always wash my hands with plenty of soap. I like having clean hands.
Worst thing you can do in ths troubled economy! By working for free (for WalMart of all places!) you’re depriving someone else of a job! Now I need to work extra hard moving carts out of WalMart and into the parking lot just to make up for thoughtless do-gooders like you.
And I’m doing it with filthy hands to induce some sick-leave which will precipitate the need for an additional employee.
If you see me in the restroom and I am just rinsing my hands, it’s because I am allergic to most soaps.
A good scrub and rinse in water is better than nothing (or hives).
This is something I’ve never understood as it’s not about the pee.
You’re touching your penis and then shaking hands and stuff. I mean, if you then shake hands with another guy who doesn’t bother washing his hands…oughtn’t you just bypass the middle man and fondle each others penises as a ‘hello’?
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So?
There’s an attitude that pops up on the Dope periodically that if you wash your hands at all, you’re a germaphobe who is deathly afraid of ever getting sick. I get a little tired of this false dichotomy - I wash my hands with soap and water multiple times a day because I KNOW what other people are doing with their hands, then touching things that I touch, and I don’t get nearly as many colds or flus as other people I know, but I’m not a germaphobe. I may be a "getting sick because I was too lazy to wash my hands"aphobe. 
On preview, I see I should have read the rest of the thread; that attitude is already here and sticking up its head.
So you’re equating a handshake to a cockfondle? And why should the middle man be left out?
But really, (most) dicks don’t have cooties that will get you even if you don’t know about them. There a filthier things than penes floating in the air that you never see.
Like Cat’s mind.
Human resources frowns upon that.
You know, someone can disagree with you without calling you a hysterical germaphobe. I think people who are bothered enough to be conscious of this sort of stuff in normal day to day life are a little overly fussy. I also think that this attitude as a whole is probably more harmful than good. That doesn’t mean I think you need to be committed or anything.
So I would think, but that doesn’t seem to be the case on this issue.
Now you’re giving me the strange picture of my mind sticking out of my head and looking around. 
This will now be my new form of greeting people. Thank you.
Unrelated, when/where’s the next Dopefest?
Sorry. But it was either that or make a handshake/rape comment which would have been wholly inapproriate. Sure am glad I managed to avoid cluttering up the board with that nonsense.