[SamAdams76]

All this focus on washing in the bathroom is rather silly. Unless your hands come in actual contact with your bodily waste, it is rather pointless to wash them. Even if you do wash your hands, as soon as you touch the door to leave, your hands are contaminated all over again.

We are surrounded by germs. There is no escape. If you were to put your skin under a microscope, you would be grossed out. Everybody has thousands and thousands of parasitic mites and other microscopic bugs on them. When you get under your sheets at night, there are many thousands of dust mites waiting for you. Doesn't matter if you laundered your sheets that afternoon either.

There is no escape from germs. And if there were, our immune systems would become so weak that the next germ could well kill us.

[_Jim]

Unless your hands come in actual contact with your bodily waste

Unseen splatter ...

[_Jim]

All this focus on washing in the bathroom is rather silly.

Not really ... if you consider the "99% percent reduction rule" is applicable here ... were you NOT to wash ever, the exponential growth of 'germs' would be immense. Studies have shown that such simple practices as 'hand washing' are efective ... remember the last time you rubbed your eye and about five to ten minutes later it was seeping and maybe stinging - GERMS baby, from your own hand ...

[OldPossum]

With reference to your statement, Even if you do wash your hands, as soon as you touch the door to leave, your hands are contaminated all over again, I do what Sloth does (post #67), i.e., go through all kinds of distortions to open that door to get out without touching the knob. I've seen too many instances of "Poppy" in a Jerry Steinfeld episode.