My roommate only washes up if he poops, never after peeing. Now every time I’m in any of the common areas I have to wash my hands after touching anything I haven’t wiped down. Thus, I wash my hands twice every time I use the bathroom; once as normal and again in the kitchen because I touched the taps, light switch and door handle in the bathroom which likely have groin sweat on them… /rant
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Honestly I wouldn’t sweat it. It’s more something that seems gross than is actually going to make you sick. Pretty much ANY high traffic surface in public is gonna have way more pathogens on it than something in your house. And breathing the same air as your roommate is more likely to get you sick than touching something that they’ve touched. Still kinda gross though.
Yeah, there’s always tiny droplets. Would you also not wash your hands after pissing directly on it?
Next time you get sick, for any reason, just blow up on him. “I got sick because you can’t wash your goddamn dick sweat and piss after you pee!”. Make it dramatic. He’ll fear you’ll blow up every time you get sick. Or bring friends over and let them go “ewww, did you just leave the toilet without washing your hands?”. Bonus points probably if it’s the sex he’s attracted to that tell him.
On a serious note: I always wash my hands. WTF?
Yes, every single time. Even if I’m camping in the middle of nowhere. Hell, even if I sat down and didn’t even touch my dong.
If I don’t wash them, it feels like there is an invisible film on my hands. I don’t know how to describe it. Like, a film of filth or grease or something. Purely mental. I HAVE to wash them.
Its crazy not to unless the bathroom sink is so gross it feels like it would be worse. What really gets me is folks don’t shower before going into the pool. ewww. I would rather have everyone take a pee in the pool than not shower before. that at least is just proteins as opposed to all the dead skin, bacteria, and oil.
I think people that over wash also get sick easier from not building up resilience, I still wash in public but more from peer pressure than feeling like my hands are dirty
Somewhat related, have a think about how clean your belt is. Probably the first thing you touch after getting cack handed and never washed. Enjoy!
do you wash your hands after shaking someones hand or scratching your arm ?
do you pee on your hands ? do you wash your dick where you shower ?
I’m the same as your roommate but then I’m also not pissing on my hands. i do occasionally but only just before I eat and not because I’ve just pissed.
Lmao, reminds me of a college bathroom experience where someone entered, used the urinal, used the hand drier, and left.
I was astounded.
So Penn & Teller used to do a show called Bullshit where they would investigate things and explain why the “common knowledge” on them was, well, bullshit.
In the episode on handwashing, they took samples from people’s hands, faces, and groins before and after using the bathroom. They came to the conclusion that the before/after on hands was negligible, because most people’s groins are under multiple layers of protection and don’t get exposed to germs.
What they didn’t bring up in the show is that that’s not why you wash your hands when you’re in the bathroom. It doesn’t matter if your asshole is downright sterile, because it’s everything else in the world that is filthy. You wash your hands when you’re in the bathroom because you should be washing your hands regularly throughout the day and it’s easiest to do when you’re already in the room with the soap and running water. It’s got very little to do with anything else you may be doing in the bathroom.
Yep, I’ve always thought that. It’s actually very sneaky of health officials, they are exploiting people’s perception of how filthy going to the bathroom is to get them to wash their hands more. Ends justify the means I guess…
I don’t. My hands will get far more dirty touching literally anything else in the bathroom than they will in the one whole second it takes to pull out/put up my dick.
But I also don’t hold it when I pee.
Nearly all of the time yes.
I think we have to talk about you. Regardless of your roommates bathroom habits, you should really assume every public surface is as dirty as you’re imagining the things your roommate touches. Put another way, I’m of the opinion that you are suffering from a bit of germophobia.
Especially because the science DOES recommend washing after you pee, but mostly because you’re already in the bathroom and the sink is right there.
The idea is you’re just regularly washing hands throughout the day.
Yeah this is the main thing for me. I wash after going pee anyways because hygiene but I randomly touch my junk through the day and don’t run to wash after (sorry world, love touching Deez Nutz what can I say) but the reality is that it’s just a great way to wash your hands every hour or two, which helps prevent the number one way I’ll transmit/receive germs.
If I never went pee I’d have to look for reasons to go to a sink, but as it is I have a convenient reason already.
Admittedly this post was more of a rant but it’s still helpful to know everyone’s answers. I major in microbiology and I know for sure that everything, everywhere is teaming with life and my hygienic habits are informed by that. One of my biggest reasons for wiping everything down all the time is to reduce the chance of spending three or four days in hospital shitting in a bucket and chugging gatorade. It’s unusual to die from a dirty doorknob (covid 3000 rubs it’s hands) but it’s not fun and a waste of time to be sick. Sometimes that’s unavoidable ofc, but I take pains to reduce my chances, even if it’s just a little.
He really should stop being lazy and wash his hands. While feces is much more dangerous than what’s likely hanging out on his junk, there’s still plenty of transmissible nastiness that he’s leaving everywhere.
But if he’s not going to change his behavior, you can mitigate by turning off the taps and handling the bathroom doorknob with a paper tissue if you use tissues to dry your hands (although I think this is common mostly in public washrooms). The overwashing you’re doing to compensate for his underwashing is not good for your hands.
I was worried about that too but my hands are fine actually. I use lukewarm water and it appears to actually help since I haven’t had any eczema flareups on my hands for a long time.
You wash you hands before.
Yes. Wash my hands:
- after every toilet use
- after I come in from outside
- before I eat
- after I eat
- before I sit down at my desk and touch my mouse and keyboard
- before I start playing a game with my controller(s)
I read this comment when this post was relatively new and just wanted to say that you’ve somehow subconsciously inspired me to wash my hands more often over the past 3 weeks. Specifically when coming in from outside. So thanks 😃
😄 You’re very welcome, friend!
I started washing my hands a lot more after my kids started preschool btw. We kept getting sick by their germs all the time, and they kept getting sick, too. Constantly.
So then we introduced this rule of always washing your hands before meals and after coming in from outside, to reduce bacteria and virus exposure. The frequency by which they got sick dropped dramatically.
And I noticed that my keyboard and mouse got a lot less grimy too, so that’s nice.
It’s crazy how dirty your hands get from being outside. Just touching a door at work or school or holding on to a hand rail or whatever. You come home and the soap water is literally light gray. Disgusting.
Anyway, I’m glad to have reached someone with my being alive. 😁🤝
Wow, the difference being that noticeable is wild. I also work with 5- and 6-year-olds at my job and I have to constantly remind them to wash their hands— with soap! I’ve literally had kids say “yes” to “did you wash your hands?” only to follow it up with “with soap?” and get an eyeroll and sulk back to the sink 🥲
I wash my hands plenty at work, because my hands get grimy and sticky just from being in their vicinity for more than 15 minutes lol, but yeah also washing more at home now!
😆 Classic! We also hit em with the “can I smell your hands?” And they gave us their hands at first but now they just go back to the sink again knowing what’s about to be said, lmao.
Yeah, working with kids I can imagine how dirty hands get. I’m thinking our adult hands get dirty for the same reasons, just a little less so, but still enough to warrant washing, also for the same reasons.
Aren’t your hands extremely dry from all the washing ?
I follow pretty similar standards and keep some coconut based lotion around to keep from drying my hands too much.
They are, and it’s just like I like it.
I strangely don’t need to moisturize, ever. My hands’ skin is curiously soft and smooth all year round, despite harsh and dry winter conditions during those months. Wife and kids need so many lotions and shit and I hate putting it on the kids. I want to wash the lotion off afterwards lol. But it’s good bonding so I do it anyway.
First three always, fourth sometimes, definitely not the last two.
The sexy time edit makes this funnier
I should’ve probably made it a numbered list, eh
something made him remember 🤔
