Some People are just Ridiculous...
Jul. 12th, 2010 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guardianlunnaeiNo, seriously...they are.
One of my co-works is either obsessive compulsive or so freaked out of germs she goes ridiculous extremes to clean herself. I'll stay away from the tmi, 'cause I don't wanna think about it, but let me ask you this, Flist...do you think it's ridiculous to spend 3 minutes washing your hands?
Do an experiment with me. Go to your bathroom or kitchen sink (even better if you can do this in a public restroom, like a restaurant or something) and start washing your hands. Add more soap for five seconds every fifteen seconds. So wash for fifteen seconds, take five seconds to add more soap, wash for fifteen seconds, etc. Have you done that for three minutes yet? No? I'll wait...
Okay, now that your three minutes are done used 3-4 times as many paper towels as you usually do (no cloth towels, that's cheating!). So if you usually use 1, use 3-4, and if you usually use 2 then uses 6-8. All clean now? Is the sink full of suds (if not you've done something wrong, because it should be), are your hands all dry from the hard water and excess of hard soap usually found in public restrooms? Do you feel like you've killed enough trees today?
*SIGH* Maybe I'm being too hard on her, but when you clog the toilet with TP every time you pee** you're using WAY too much, if you can get the already foam soap to sud in the sink, you're using too much, if you're killing small trees to dry your hands, you're using too much. 9,9;;
**I apoligize for the tmi, Flist...
One of my co-works is either obsessive compulsive or so freaked out of germs she goes ridiculous extremes to clean herself. I'll stay away from the tmi, 'cause I don't wanna think about it, but let me ask you this, Flist...do you think it's ridiculous to spend 3 minutes washing your hands?
Do an experiment with me. Go to your bathroom or kitchen sink (even better if you can do this in a public restroom, like a restaurant or something) and start washing your hands. Add more soap for five seconds every fifteen seconds. So wash for fifteen seconds, take five seconds to add more soap, wash for fifteen seconds, etc. Have you done that for three minutes yet? No? I'll wait...
Okay, now that your three minutes are done used 3-4 times as many paper towels as you usually do (no cloth towels, that's cheating!). So if you usually use 1, use 3-4, and if you usually use 2 then uses 6-8. All clean now? Is the sink full of suds (if not you've done something wrong, because it should be), are your hands all dry from the hard water and excess of hard soap usually found in public restrooms? Do you feel like you've killed enough trees today?
*SIGH* Maybe I'm being too hard on her, but when you clog the toilet with TP every time you pee** you're using WAY too much, if you can get the already foam soap to sud in the sink, you're using too much, if you're killing small trees to dry your hands, you're using too much. 9,9;;
**I apoligize for the tmi, Flist...
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