That shit looks fun.

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But I do use a shopping cart cover when we go shopping (which I made out of flannel with space ships on it. so cute!) and I do use purrell like it's going out of style and I will wipe a cart handle off with an antiseptic wipe before I pick it up.

But that doesn't strike me as crazy at all, especially in your situation. I wash my hands immediately after getting off public transit. A shopping cart is just as potentially germy.

Do you buy special distilled water you use only for that purpose?

Special distilled water for the baby's ASS?

Do you think the shift is micro-preemie induced, or something you'd have done anyway if you'd gone to term?

I don't know. But I can't unpack it like that. It's hard to tell because the fact is I DID spend the first 100 days of Noah's life scrubbing for a full minute every time I walked into his nursery.

And I still do that before I ever touch Grace. I mean, the infection control nurse at Grace's place cracks up when K and I are there because we wash. Then whenever we touch her crib, a chair, the set of drawers, we go and use purrell. We go to the hand sanitizer easily 30 times a visit.

All of that undoubtedly shapes my perspective.

But the cart thing is pure ick because I started thinking of all of the people who think that rinsing hands with cold water is the same as washing with soap or the folks who think washing hands is optional after using the bathroom. And they use those carts. And it's not like Trader Joe's or Whole Foods ever takes them to the cart wash. And then I gross myself out and grab a wipe.

A shopping cart is just as potentially germy.

Maybe worse.

But I also find myself using hand sanitizer after I blow my nose. I mean, it's crazy.

Sox, EXACTLY! Of COURSE it's in NZ. All of the fun things are.

But the cart thing is pure ick because I started thinking of all of the people who think that rinsing hands with cold water is the same as washing with soap or the folks who think washing hands is optional after using the bathroom. And they use those carts. And it's not like Trader Joe's or Whole Foods ever takes them to the cart wash. And then I gross myself out and grab a wipe.

Now I want to take wipes with me to the grocery store.

I remember all the little old czech ladies in prague who wore cheap white cotton gloves when on public transit. I wondered about it and then saw how filthy they'd get. So I tried really hard to stop thinking about it.

But I also find myself using hand sanitizer after I blow my nose. I mean, it's crazy.

I really don't think that is too crazy considering. And, as opposed to the distilled water/cotton ball sitch, hand sanitizer is convenient!

I remember all the little old czech ladies in prague who wore cheap white cotton gloves when on public transit. I wondered about it and then saw how filthy they'd get. So I tried really hard to stop thinking about it.

Coincidentally, I saw someone with gloves on MUNI for the first time today. However, since he was also dressed as if he was a member of the Russian mafia, I can only hope they were for a germy purpose.

Now I want to take wipes with me to the grocery store.

Yeah. I was all, "Crazy germphobes with their sanitizing wipes at grocery stores." Then I read something that pointed out grocery carts are never washed, or if they are, they are washed like once a year. I literally felt my stomach roll. I guess I had never really thought about it.

cheap white cotton gloves when on public transit

Why white? I mean, then you would KNOW. Better to wear black and never see the filth.