Wash Your Hands. PLEASE.

Good gracious. I'm not ready for parenting. But I know some parents who definitely aren't.

Overhead in the toilet.

Mother rebuking daughter washing her hands at the sink, after having come out from the toilet.

"Girl arh... don't need to use soap larh! See larh... use soap take so long. Just use water can already!"

$%$^$%$%$!!@@$@!$


If I were feeling more brash. I'd have said.


"Aunty arh... Don't use soap and wash hands, you might as well stick your hand down the toilet bowl before flushing it."


But I was just so shocked that my only response was shooting the dirtiest look I possibly could to the ignorant nicompoop of a mother.

Seriously people.

I'm not being anal just because I'm a medical student.

But honestly, pleaaaase wash your hands WITH SOAP before coming out of the toilet. Don't just flick on a few sprays of water. It reaaaally is useless.

I don't understand why people don't wash with soap?

Is it...

a) the sheer inconvenience of pumping twice and then taking 20 extra seconds to make sure you're hands are not big bad bug traps? are you afraid your date might take off in that 20 extra seconds?

b) the psychological fear of people thinking you've just done a "big one" in a public place, and therefore not wanting to use soap?

c) the fact that people are so thick to believe in the antibacterial powers of tap water? There is fluoride, but no chlorine from our taps thankewverymuch.

I'm at a lost for words. Ugh.