Kalmia wrote:
>
> I don't know how many of you read 'Annie's Mailbox', an advice column
> which appears in my paper.
> A while back, a seeker of help wrote to complain that someone had come
> into her kitchen from the out of doors, (had played golf I think it
> was) and washed his hands at her kitchen sink. She was appalled and
> chided the dirty-handed one for not using her bathroom sink.
>
> Annie agreed that the writer was rightly indignant.
>
> Well, the letters must've come in carloads. One person said that a
> sink was a sink, whether food was prepared in the area of not. My
> feeling was ' heck, I don't mix ingredients in the sink - what's the
> big deal? I keep my kitchen sink reasonable scrubbed.
>
> Your reaction to this handwashing brouhaha? Just curious.

Our kitchen sink is closer to the back door than the nearest bathroom
sink. When I come in from outdoors, garden work notwithstanding, hands
are washed at the kitchen sink. Otherwise more than one doorknob get
touched with dirty hands, which isn't a good thing AFAIAC.

The kitchen sink (and taps) gets rinsed and bleached regularly. My hands
don't ever touch industrial insectides or pesticides, other than when
washing nonorganically-produced **fruits** and **vegetables**. Should I
wash those things in the bathroom sink hmmmm?

A sink is a sink, as long as it is cleaned properly.