I was in the hospital today and needed to pee, so I walked to the family/guest restroom, locked the door, sat down on the toilet and saw a laminated sheet of paper on the towel dispenser. I know hospitals need things to be sanitary for the sake of the patients, but the instructions on that sheet of paper stepped beyond the realm of hygiene and into cosmetology:
Six Steps to Proper Hand Washing
1. Wet hands with water.
2. Apply hand wash.
3. Lather and wash for at least 15 seconds.
4. Rinse both sides of hands with water.
5. Dry hands and shut off faucet with hand towel.
6. Apply hand lotion to keep skin smooth and soft.
There was no hand lotion in the restroom that I could see and hospitals aren’t known for having well-stocked cosmetics departments, so if you wanted to “wash properly” according to their standards (as opposed to the 4 1/2 steps I followed), you needed to take matters… into your own hands.
