Now that's just nasty...

I was in a public restroom the other day - the kind with multiple stalls. While I was at the sink washing my hands, another lady came to the sink and immediately started playing with her hair. She had just come out of the stall, so my assumption is that she used the toilet. So when I saw her touching her hair instead of washing her hands, my stomach turned.

"Oh my goodness, she didn't wash her hands!" I was screaming in my head.

She put her hands in her hair first. All of the grime from touching the germ-infested knob on the stall's door, and the toilet paper, that EVERYONE has touched after wiping potentially-diseased body parts, were now in her hair. I didn't even mention the germs from wiping her own body parts...and what if she accidentally touched the toilet seat?

The lady put all of those germs and bacteria in her hair and potentially on her scalp. Gross! Then she is going to be wondering why she has an itchy, red, rash on her scalp, and is going to expect me or one of my classmates touch it. I don't think so!

So...my tip for this week is after you have used the bathroom, wash your hands BEFORE you touch your hair and scalp (or any other part of your body for that matter).

- Stacy L. Davis
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