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I used to apply coatings to stuff that I can not talk about at somewhere I can not talk about. Basically, I painted stuff.

One day me and my good friend, Hank, were hitting the urinals and I went to wash my hands after taking off two pairs of gloves and an oxygen suit.

He was surprised I was washing my hands before I peed. He asked me about it.

I was surprised he was surprised. I told him, "I was my hands BEFORE I touch my junk !"

Be yourself and you cant go wrong. Author Unknown

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Good move: urine is a sterile liquid, so you'd be protecting HIM from YOU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_urine

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
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As an airline jet mechanic we always washed your hands before, only takes once to grab with Skydrol a synthetic hydraulic fluid on your hands to never do it again.
The stuff burns on your skin like nettles x10.
Bobby

I have often seen others washing hands before. I figured it must be work related.
Had put sports balm on my leg to get the leg and knee swelling down. Thought
I had washed good enough. Surprise to me it wasn't. The old saying rinse and repeat
never had truer meaning.

Just a side note. I have Autistic 11 year old son. He is like a women, never met a bathroom
he could pass up. So I wait in bathrooms a lot. Noticed almost 40% of men don't wash after.
Even if you don't get it on you, I still don't want you junk stuff on me. Thus I hardly ever
shake hands anymore.

Does that make me a jerk?

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OMG yes!

Almost 20 years working with that shit now

Worst thing I ever did was cut a hydraulic line in the belly of a Boeing 727 to install an H-coupling. The line I cut ran over 30 feet up the tail and was full of Skydrol and was supposed to have been drained when I cut it. I ended up taking a head to toe bath in the stuff. You can't even wash it off as water lies on top of it and hot water just opens your pores and makes it worse. Luckily, I keep a bottle of castor oil in my tool box so I was able to wash it out of my eyes right away.

I'm religious now about protecting myself from chemicals. When I first started in this profession, they had me doing fuel tank entries without breathing gear, washing parts in MEK, practically bathing in synthetic turbine oil. It was crazy. I'm sure the reason I got cancer at only 29 years old was because of these chemicals.

Still, I am not as anal about hygiene. I ate bugs as a K*D and played in the dirt and I think we insulate Ch*ldren too much from dirt and bacteria during the years they are developing their immune systems. Even with all the damage done to my body from chemo and radiation therapy, I still don't get sick except for the odd cold once a year or so. I'm sure as shit not worried about flushing a toilet with the seat up or shaking a persons hand

Rhetorical question probably but basically it's to show that hand isn't holding a weapon. Here's more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Not if you wave first
Regards, 911 Driver

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I hear ya planecrazzy
got the ole skydrol shower once removing a 757 spoiler actuator from a hangar bird for a line bird and like you the reservoir was supposed to be depressurized, it wasn't and i was on a man lift alone 20+ feet in the air it was a mess but I didn't clean it up.

I think thats why a wave or salut always worked for me.

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So y'all are concerned about a little pee or something on a guy's hand? Do any of you go swimming in lakes? And maybe accidentally drink a little of the water? This'll be of interest then:
from the NYT this Sunday--"Don't Drink the Water" by Hope Reeves
You wouldn't urinate in in your fish's tank, right? So why would it be O.K. to do so in a pond teeming with all matter [sic] of aquatic life? Turns out it's not--at least not in Germany's Eichbaum Lake, where fish are going belly-up thanks to swimmers too lazy to exit the water in search of proper facilities. Manfred Siedler, a spokesman for the Hamburger Angling Association, told a local newspaper that blue-green algae growth is a result of "half a liter of urine per swimmer, per day."

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

most ppl think "if the fish use the lake as a toilet, why can't I?"

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When I was born, I was given a choice - a big pecker or a good memory.... I don't remember what I chose.

I made the green chile at HLH last week, and washed my hands before I removed the seeds/innards from the jalapeños (sorry, no serranos available). I didn't wash my hands afterwards...chica gave me an earfull...jejejeje...