Do It For Mom!

I was standing at the urinal in a restroom of the State Department of Health when the man sitting in a stall exited, put on his suit jacket, straightened his tie and walked right out of the room—right past the sink—in the Department of Health for crying out loud! Granted, just because he was sitting in a stall of a public restroom does not mean he was making-a-deposit, after all, he could have been a Republican Senator waiting for a date, but it still didn’t look good.


CNN recently reported that scientists found one-third of the men who used a public restroom where they did their study, did not wash their hands. I think they must have caught the restroom on a good day. My son and I, on numerous occasions, have been the only people in a men’s room to even approach the sink. I have seen guys sprinkle their hands with a little water and walk out. It’s not holy water pouring out of the tap guys, it doesn’t magically wipe away all the germs and debris stuck to your hands.


I can’t vouch for a women’s restroom, as I never go in them, so I asked my wife about it. I was amazed when she told me many women do the same thing. That was very surprising to me because no matter what type of transaction it is, a woman’s experience is a rather close and personal one with a public toilet.


Wash your hands people, that’s disgusting!


I don’t know about the “none washers” but I quit touching my poo when I quit doing it in my pants. I’d rather not touch someone else’s whether directly or indirectly. I also don’t care what your sexual orientation is that’s your business, but mine is straight and I have no desire to touch another man’s pecker even if it is vicariously through a doorknob.


Here are two reasons why you should wash your hands after using the restroom:


1. To prevent the spreading of bad germs and the displacement of good ones; and
2. It makes your mom look very bad when you don’t.


Our body has a symbiotic relationship with a host of bacteria and yeasts known as our “normal flora.” A healthy human body has all the bacteria where it needs to be and just the right amounts. When the bacteria and yeasts are out-of-balance, or new ones introduced, illness occurs. E. Coli is used by the body to break down the food we eat. The problem with E. Coli occurs when it is any where other than the lower intestines. The bacteria salmonella occurs naturally in turtles and other reptiles and is usually harmless to them, but inside a person it can cause a serious illness. Bacteria and yeasts have a proper place and proper function. When they are out-of-place they can’t do their job properly and cause a whole host of problems for the whole host.


When a person does not wash his or her hands after using the facilities they leave the various bacteria and yeasts every where they touch: doorknobs, hand rails, money, keyboards, sticks of gum, mints, the hand they shook afterwards, et al. Sharing germs with the general public is what causes outbreaks of viral infections such as flues and colds. When an employee of a business with a high volume of customers, such as a restaurant, has a case of bacterial meningitis, it is a serious public health threat. You can even make yourself sick by giving yourself your own germs. The yeasts commonly found in the pubic area have no business being in the eyes or nose, even if they are your own germs.


If the concerns over one’s own health or that of the general public’s does not prompt people to wash their hands regularly, perhaps thinking about mom will. Didn’t your mom raise you better than that? Didn’t your mom teach you to wash your hands after using the toilet? Next time you walk out of the restroom without properly washing your hands, think about your mom and how bad you just made her look. People are going to assume your mom didn’t raise you right or that you were an orphan raised by a pack of uncouth wolves. Don’t do that to her, she deserves better than that. After all, she went through hours and hours of labor and knocked on Death’s door to bring you into this world, and if you make her look bad she can take you out of it. So wash your hands for mom’s sake if not for the rest of us.