OMG, shrift, good luck flying tomorrow!! Let this last trip have used up all your bad travel experiences for the year.
Half the men in my office do not wash their hand after they use the bathroom.
A surprising number of the women in my office don't, either. I think mostly they use the antibacterial stuff, but that almost grosses me out more. The sink and soap are right there! Don't you at least want to wash your commute/lunch/general world off your hands at some point in the day? Possibly I have come over to the weird side of this, as I do wash my hands when I come inside, in addition to all of the million times a day I go to the bathroom.
I also want to give a shout out to those offices that have nice smelling soap. Seriously, there is no reason to buy the pink chemical stuff. There are much better options.
If anyone doesn't wash their hands here I don't know about it. A fair number come out of the restroom and wash their hands in the sink in the kitchenette because the temperature of the water is controllable - the faucets in the bathroom are motion activated and generally cold water, which I just kind of accept but some people do not.
I don't feel as much need to wash my hands frequently these days as I did when I handled money all day. So grimy and so easy to imagine there's worse that I can't see.
That reminds me - we had a cabin our first night at Rock Creek, which didn't have it's own bathroom, and the nearest restroom didn't have a sink. We got in around 2 am and discovered that we hadn't packed any soap, so the next morning after breakfast we bought some Dr. Bronners at the camp store, all good. After we'd been backpacking we ended up in the same cabin and discovered that under the sink was a washbasin, dishrack, bottle of Dawn, and a pump of lemony handsoap. No one opened that cupboard the first time we were there. @@
I usually forget when I am not in Florida that cold water can be really cold.
Ack, I have a one-on-one I forgot about.
Minnesota cold water stays cold all year long. When I was growing up in Cleveland, OH there was usually a period of late summer when the cold water was more luke-warm. And of course in AZ there was the money saving trick of turning the heating element in the water heater off during summer months so you could use the water from the hot tap for cold water, and the quite warm water from the cold tap for hot. That only really worked if your water heater tank was in the insulated, air-conditioned part of your home.
Cass, this terrible thing that happened to your family, I can't begin to imagine the pain and stress. But please know that your urge to come here for solace and any help we can give, it's a good thing. Don't worry that there is a time limit or expiration date on belonging here. We understand that life gets in the way of posting regularly, sometimes a person has to concentrate their attentions elsewhere. We drift in, we drift out, we drift back, we drift forth. I think we're like the Jets (only with less animosity to the Sharks, Ysinging&dancingMV ) - Once a Buffista, always a Buffista.
The water in our bathroom sinks is set to scalding, and the soap is very drying and smells horrible. It's hard to time proper handwashing with avoiding getting burnt.
Idly looking at houses in the new location, and boy, there's a lot of barn and barn-adjacent decoration.
Ugh, and pools. Why does everyone have a pool?
