Posted: 10/26/2005 5:36:01 PM EDT
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How often do you wash your hands? I work in a rather unclean environment, so I probably wash mine 10-15 times a night. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I just don't feel right if my hands aren't clean. I've been known to wash my hands before I go into a Wal Mart, while I'm shopping, and before I leave. I just hate those little infrared activated faucets they have at WM's. |
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I've got some of that Purell hand sanitizer stuff, but it leaves my hands feeling all icky. I will use it out in the field if I have no running water though. I'm having a hard time finding a soap that isn't murder on my skin. I thought it was the hot water, so I switched to cold. Still didn't help. Have this huge red patch on my left middle finger. So now I've switched soaps and it seems to have helped a bit. Still having to use hand lotion once or twice a night. |
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Every chance I get. Which at work isn't as much as I'd like, as I work construction. I keep bottled water and hand sanatizer in my truck for it nonetheless. Off work? LOTS. Everytime I go to the bathroom, touch money, go out in public and touch doorknobs (or shopping carts, or anything else the general public has touched as well). Also, after I pet the dogs, after I shoot, before I eat, after I eat, after I walk the dogs, after I talk on the phone, after I type on the keyboard, after I do laundrey, after I mow the lawn, after turn the channel on the tv, after I cough, after I............. |
I almost quit my last job because I was freaking out about my hands beind dirty (and not washing clean, they needed better soap) and esp. because of dirt under my fingernails. I'm glad I stuck it out and learned to deal with it. My new job is much better, lots of cool stuff to do and learn, but there are days when I do alot of rolling around on a dirty shop floor and attaching straps to the undercarriage of a vehicle. More than once I've had to take a shower when I come home just to get all the grime off. At least I don't freak out about it anymore. Last year I broke myself of my creased-clothing issue. At one time I could absolutely not wear anything that had even a shadow of a wrinkle in it. I'd go through a big can of spray starch in a single week. Everything was pressed and creased to perfection. I can still do that, I just broke myself of doing it obsessively. |