Hand washing - before meals?

Washing hands before you eat and before you prepare food, yes. Have you noticed how many women walk straight out of the cubicle in the loo. Some stop to arrange their hair..... No wonder the credit cards are covered in

My son-in-law is totally obsessive about hygiene and the children are constantly asked to wash their hands, before, after, during and in-between- but especially before meals.

I used to have a problem with my dad NOT washing his hands - even after going to the WC. It used to drive me mad - and sometimes put strain in our relationship. But to be fair, he was born in 1912 and when he was a kid there was one WC on the half floor to be shared by 4 families, and no washing basin anywhere but the kitchen sink. From the sublime to the flipping ridiculous, as is so often the case these days.

A Freudian slip phoenix?

I'm also a fanatical hand-washer.

Oh god, I didn't mean cokking! I meant cooking!

I do, and always expect others to as well. I think I might be a bit OCD about it, when I used to travel a lot for work I was always aware of things like holding the hand rail at stations, and then going to have a coffee and a danish! Yuk, just think of all those germs, I think the flu scare last winter made it even more important.

I am also fanatical about washing before preparing food, if I asbently mindedly stroke one of the mogs while cokking, I wash my hands again before stirring, peeling etc.