Ugh

[alex_antonin]

My roommate has this ridiculous notion that you have to run the water over your hands for 20 seconds to get rid of germs. Like, aside from being a waste of water, that doesn't even make any fucking sense. Running water over your hands that long is just going to nullify the whole point of washing your hands! The soap binds to the bacteria and you rinse those off, but if you're running water over your hands the whole fucking time, then the soap doesn't get a chance to bind to the bacteria, meaning all you've done is waste water and time!

And she expects me to wash my hands that thoroughly even if all I've done is peed, and it's like WTF? I mean, pee is sterile, all you have to do is wash it off to get rid of the smell. Honestly, if you're that ridiculously anal about germs, then maybe you should wash your hands after every time you use your cell phone, because a cell phone has more germs on it than a toilet does!

Fucking gods damned nonsense, pisses me off.

Comments

[kengr]

She's *half* right. You have to scrub your hands for 20 seconds. *then* you use the water to clean off the soap.

https://www.cdc.gov/features/handwashing/index.html

ps. you can't catch anything from your *own* urine. (unless you have a bladder infection). You *can* catch things from *other* people's urine (mostly viral stuff).

But there are nasties on the *outside* of that area that you can pick up when peeing.