Germs

Sit and watch tv for an hour or pick up one of those useless lady's magazines and all you seem to se advertised is stuff to get rid of GERMS! Germs as if they are all going to gang up and attack. Ridiculous, they don't make uniforms small enough. Now they have bleach for your dishes.... BLEACH? Come on now, I leave my dishes in a sink full of water long enough for the dish to actually dissolve (it hasn't happened yet, but I can hope) . I have never wiped the rim of the trash can. Why my trash can should be cleaner than me I don't know. I don't scoop the cat liter as soon as the cats use it or hover with the scooper ready as one of the girls does her business catching the "ahem" deposit BEFORE it hits the litter.
Hand sanitizer companies must love petting farms. When I worked with the pigs I didn';t wash my hands till I got home and there was that one time when I was covered with piglet birthing goo or the time I ended up in the grocery store with a t-shirt full of pig blood AND I NEVER GOT SICK even though the bird flu was supposed to come to humans from the chicken to the pig to the human unless you ate sauerkraut... don't ask me, younger son claimed it was true. As for the poor kids dragged around the farm by their teachers, if they so much as looked as a pig the teacher/aid/parent/chaperone whipped out the hand sanitizer and coated the kid from hair to toes. It's a wonder the kids didn't OD on the stuff. Of course I suppose carrying a bottle of hand sanitizer was easier than luging around a five pound can of sauerkraut and forcing the little dears to eat it but, still, I think we are suddenly carrying this germ nonsense too far. Don't we all know that if food hits the floor and you pick it up in under five seconds it is perfectly safe to eat? Or that neatly arranging strips of toilet paper on a wet toilet seat will magically protect you from all stranger sprinkles even though the toilet paper shield you just designed is on a seat so wet that the tp actually starts to dissolve before you put your tushie on it and let us not forget that you CAN kiss your dog on the lips because dog mouths supposedly carry less germs than a humans... must be all that butt licking... who knew... of course it would be awfully hard to carry a dog's but around with you to keep the rug rats all sanitized.
So here's my point... yes I do have one... if the parent makes sure their house is germ fre and their kids are just as sanitized and stored away in plastic wrap, what happens when ...shudder.. the kid mets a real live germ. Holy crap, the kid'd have the snot knocked out of him. PUn intended. So save the germ I say, dump the sanitizer and the wipes and let the kid get dirty... after all there is always sauerkraut.