No moisturizing lotion, restaurant toothpicks or paper towels in bathrooms

For those of us taking public transport (especially living in London and taking the Tube), this would totally negate washing your hands! You don't know what germs are on those seats (disgusting, I imagine! Especially in big cities).

Ewwwwww! Germy tube/bus jeans!!!!

Ha, first thing I do when I get into the office in the morning (and home from work at the end of the day) is wash my hands!!

Ha, first thing I do when I get into the office in the morning (and home from work at the end of the day) is wash my hands!!

I'm with you on that. First thing DH and I do when getting home is wash our 'bus hands' or 'Tube hands'. Yucky yuck yuck. No touching food before washing off those germs! 

When I was still in the UK, I was the Queen of Hand Sanitizer when it came to public transport. I don't consider myself a germophobe at all, but shopping cart handles and public transportation are the two areas where I feel I can't clean my hands enough.

These days I do my own driving, but shopping cart handles are still gross. Fortunately a lot of places here offer sanitizing wipes right by the shopping carts.

These days I do my own driving, but shopping cart handles are still gross. Fortunately a lot of places here offer sanitizing wipes right by the shopping carts.

I always hesitate before putting my bag in the kiddie seat of the trolley.  You never know what germy kid has sat there.  (We have to be especially vigilant because of DH's suppressed immunity)
My mum always washed her hands as soon as she walked in the door and made me do the same.

I never gave a thought to putting my bag there until I saw on tv (Oprah comes to mind, maybe it was on her show years ago), where people were given swabs, told to test places as they went about their day, and label them. Then they were sent off and analyzed. The kid seat and handle of shopping trollies were both near the very top for contamination, including fecal.

Nowdays I grab one of the sanitizing wipes the shop provides, wipe the handle before moving the trolly and keep my bag on my shoulder.