The ritual involving washing your hands
I'm the first to admit I'm a bit OCD about washing my hands.
Touch something vaguely nasty, must wash hands.
If I have to use a public computer, I have to wash my hands before handling any food afterwards.
If a bird craps on me or a dog pees up my leg, (happens surprisingly more often than I'm happy with) I'll use a tissue to clean up but then must thoroughly wash my hands before touching anything else.
I cant even roll a cig afterwards until my hands are clean, no matter how much I want one.
Until fairly recently I thought this was perfectly normal, I mean, who wants to pick up food (or something else that goes into your mouth )with dirty hands?
Then I had a party.
Put a freshly laundered and neatly folded towel in the bathroom, Along with a new bar of soap.
People were in and out of the bathroom all night.
The buffet was a success, very little was left.
After everyone had gone and I got ready for bed, I saw the towel and soap hadnt been used at all, towel still neatly folded as I'd left it and the soap still dry on on the tray.
I was disgusted to think folk had used the bathroom all night and had not washed their hands, and had been handling the party food.
A few months later I was talking about this at another event, not really cottoning on that some of my party guests would also be there.
Later on, a friend sloped up and told me that he couldnt stand to use a new bar of soap in someone elses house, or disturb a neatly folded towel.
And that he'd washed his hands with my shampoo and then dried them on the shower curtain rather than mess up my clean soap and towel.
I hope my other guests shared the same bizarre habit, though I doubt it
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 23:23, 6 replies)

I can't imagine that you'd get much water off your hands with a shower curtain... O_o
How splendidly bizarre!
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 23:40, closed)

Absolutely
But rather that , than not washing hands at all after peeing
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 1:09, closed)

It IS normal
you should wash your hands in those circumstances. The rest of the people are screwed up.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 2:16, closed)

My wife is on the OCD side of fussy.
I suspect it's actually rather practical, but she always carries around a little bottle of antiseptic hand wash, the self drying kind of thing you find in hospitals.

Whenever we're out and about, she brings it out every 10 minutes or so and makes all of us disinfect our hands. I get rather annoyed about it, but she gets genuinely anxious if I tell her to sod off.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 11:17, closed)

I dont do that
I think I may have a bottle of that wipe somewhere but never felt the need to use it.
Hot water and soap is all that is required
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 1:11, closed)

oh yes!
I'm normal after all

oh not sure if thats good or not ;)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 1:10, closed)