"maxine in ri" > wrote in message
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On Sep 25, 12:56 pm, 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.

My DH will wash his greasy, grimey, motor-dirtied hands at the ktichen
sink because dishsoap is better than just about anything for getting
the grease off. I have to wipe the sink down afterwards (well, he
does the dishes, it's a fair division of labor imho), but so what?
That way, at least, the grime he tracks in goes no further than the
kitchen, so there's less floor to clean up.

just my $0.02
maxine in ri

Be careful. I used Dawn to clean up after working with steel. It is
treated with a light oil. The Dawn takes off the oil, but it also takes out
the skin oil to the point of cracking and bleeding. Most cheap dishwashing
soaps are the same, regardless of how they tout they have lotion in them.
If they have lotion in them, wouldn't the dishes be so slippery they would
slip from the hands?

Steve