On Sep 26, 1:50*am, "Steve B" > wrote:
> "maxine in ri" > wrote in ...
> 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

Of course they don't differentiate between petro and bio oils.<G> DH
won't use hand cream or anything else on his hands, so I have to ask
nicely for a nice oily backrub after he's been mucking around outside,
but after he's cleaned up. So far, he hasn't caught on to my sneaky
methods of keeping him whole and healthy...<G>

maxine in ri