A Rant A Day...

I've gotten accustomed to having to wait 10 minutes for hot water in my house. Granted, the water does eventually get really hot, just not right away, and I'm an impatient person. I was never big on washing my hands at home because of this - cold water is not a good friend of mine. At school, however, there was always hot water on command - it was great (it's the little things in life). Because of this, I began to really enjoy washing my hands because of the nice warm water and the clean feeling afterwards. However, with this, I became mildly more germaphobic. Once my hands are nice and clean I become reluctant to touch door knobs or other things I would classify as dirty, especially in public. I was never a big fan of public toilets or bathrooms in general so having to touch dirty door knobs after making my hands nice and clean is basically a nightmare. What I've noticed, however, is that this problem can be avoided entirely, depending on how manual or automatic the bathroom is. It's really great when everything is automatic, but only works if everything is. Example: automatic sink, automatic soap, automatic hand dryer - doing great so far, automatic door or no door - perfect! Door handle - ruins everything. As soon as I have to touch the door, the entire hand washing process just seems like a waste of water, soap and energy. Now lets go to the flip side: manual sink and soap - turn on with dirty hands, take soap with dirty hands, clean hands, now what? Take nice, clean paper towel, turn off dirty sink handle and open dirty door and make it out fresh as ever. And now that I've taken you through a nice, little rant about public restrooms and dirty door knobs, don't forget to wash your hands.