Wash your hands!

[Bamabrat]

I was raised in the country. We washed up before meals, after using the restroom, and then before bed. The rest of the time we were dirty, but it was honest mother-nature dirt from outside, not bacteria-laden dirt from countless people we didn't know containing every illness from around the globe. Now my wife and I primarily use the drive thrus and/or phone orders instead of eating inside, but germs have nothing to do with it. We have 2 kids under 3 years old, and don't want to ruin the dining experience for everyone else.

I agree that a lot of public places are dirty...shopping carts, back in the day the pay phones were nasty, door knobs, the pens attached to ropes at gas stations and banks, fuel pumps, debit card/credit card key pads, etc. But you can go WAY overboard by overthinking this stuff. Dirt and bacteria are everywhere and on everything. You can be OCD and use antibacterial hand wash every 10 seconds, or just use a few times a day. no matter how OCD you are, you are going to have to rely on your immune system to fight off the stuff you pick up from your surroundings. That said, I'll probably get ebola since I live 5 minutes from Dobbins AFB and be dead in the next 2 weeks.