am I going to touch the backs of my thighs?

You are the backs of your thighs.

I dunno. I just figure there's potential ick but I really want to sit down. So I shield.

A funny variation on those Christian fish thingies that people put on their cars: [link]

I dunno. I just figure there's potential ick but I really want to sit down. So I shield.

Yeah, I don't worry so much about ick in general. I also open doors with my bare hands!

With swine flu, I've gotten paranoid about banisters, but I figure falling down the stairs will probably hurt me more than swine flu.

Oh, I've seen a new anti-Obama (I guess) sticker. It's a christian fish eating an Obama 'O' symbol.

Is pecan allergy as common as peanut allergy?

Tree nut allergies are pretty common in kids, yeah.

I also open doors with my bare hands!

I notice that just about every woman I've seen in the washroom here opens the washroom door with a paper towel instead of her bare hands, which makes me feel okay with using my bare hands--it's when I notice a persistent non-washer that I start to get creeped out. I used to work at a healthcare-tangential place where the orientation included hand-washing instructions, and there was this one woman that never washed her hands. I don't work there anymore, but I see her around town, and it's all I think, there she goes with the ick on her hands.

With swine flu, I've gotten paranoid about banisters

The other ick I think about is shopping cart handles, for some reason. My hands just feel filthy after I've done grocery shopping. I must wash. But I don't think that's a swine flu thing.

I've seen sanitizers at supermarkets for those handles.

I've seen sanitizers at supermarkets for those handles.

Oh, I think we've had this discussion before. I'm again in the "why bother?" category, unless you have an actual reason. Yuppie angst over germs doesn't seem like an actual reason to me.

And I totally believe that over-cleaning is bad for you, anyway. (As mentioned on last night's House, so it must be true!)