Is Washing Your Hands Such A Hassle?

The most disgusting thing to me is when people, of any gender DON’T wash their hands. Lately I've gone to quite a few public places where I've seen a lull in people washing their hands after using public bathrooms, or after accepting cash at a checkout then running to grab food for a customer.

What is so hard about running warm water from a sink and putting a little soap in between that? It literately only takes 30 seconds to do just that.

This may be a pet peeve, but washing your hands is the best way of preventing the spread of diseases and infection. It’s a easy concept that some people just don’t seem to know how to follow.

In sixth-grade a close friend of mine once said, “I don’t need to wash my hands. I’m a boy!”

As he said those words, he had the nerve to reach his hand into the bag of chips that we were sharing. When he tried to do that, I said, “You have got to be kidding me.”

I slapped his hand away so quick and demanded for him to wash his hands. I told him to never to try that disgusting habit on me again. He replied with a simple, “It’s no big deal. I do it all the time. You girls are always so uptight.”

And I just simply said to him, “whatever.”

Even today, I see girls come in the bathroom at school, use the restroom, and just walk out. And I just look around like, “Did anyone else just see that?”

It drives me crazy!

Another incident occurred in seventh-grade, when a few friends and I were talking about this topic and this random boy came out of no where and said, “I don’t ever wash my hands unless I take a shower."

Mind you this boy had a very strong scent assumingly of dirty armpits and very stinky socks. Very shocked I replied, “Are you serious?”

He said he was, and even asked me to smell his hand, to which I  nicely responded with a “no thanks!”

There have been plenty of incidents that I have encountered throughout the 12 years that I have been going to school, from pre-k to tenth-grade. As I enter my junior this 2011-2012 school year, I really hope that I won’t encounter those very nasty and awkward moments in the bathroom.

I think people of a certain age should know to wash their hands. But if these last two years of being in high school are an indicator, I know that I will see the germ-filled bad habit.

You tell me. Am I being too harsh on people?