20 Seconds Can Get You a lot of Twitter Scrolling

Being a public health student I have the tendency to pay pretty good attention to my own health.  Weird, right?  I also have been forced to pay attention to the health awareness that surrounds us.  I literally wash my hands probably 25 times a day.  I think that's still not enough from the perspective of the health people in power(?) but to me I'm surprised I still have skin on my hands.  I'm not germaphobic, yet, but give it time.  That's not a funny joke though because I know there are people who are actually like that and constantly wear gloves and freak when they go in public.  I don't know those people personally but they exist the TLC channel.  I don't want to be like that.  BUT I am a believer in the idea (and obvious knowledge) that washing our hands is one of the best ways to combat sicknesses.  That, and eating healthy, but that's something I could talk fiercely about for blogs on end.  Today I was washing my hands after one of my bathroom visits (I act like I visit them for fun) and I actually read the public ad about hand sanitation that is posted right on the mirror and still no one probably notices is even there.

TWENTY SECONDS?  Do these people think we have time to spare in our days?  I can't be bothered with that!  I need to effing check my Twitter!  I've never actually considered this 20 second washing before.  Or tried it.  Twenty seconds is a long freaking time, in the grand scheme of a bathroom visit.  I tried it and three people had washed their hands in the time period where I was still lathering up.  They were looking at me like I had some type of fetish going on with massaging my hands together.  I just smiled at them through the mirror and basically said this with my eyes.  UM, NO BITCHES THIS IS WHAT I CALL PROPER HAND CLEANSING THAT IS GONNA KEEP ME FROM GETTIN THE DAMN FLU YOU'LL HAVE NEXT WEEK.    But seriously...

Sidetracking...but sort of public announcement related?

And then this afternoon I see a notice by my apartment elevator that signifies wet paint.  I'm not going to disclose the maker of the advertisement/notice because for some reason it feels wrong and like a form of defacement towards the company?  So I cut out part of the company when I took a pic of the paper so you couldn't tell who made it.

I have a big problem with this ad.  I'm not even a full throttle environmentalist, but I'm aware of environmental issues and I care about the Earth in general.  Shouldn't we all?  This picture is awful.  Why would we want to cover up the Earth with paint?  Why don't they just say  "Help us mask nature with our smelly acrylic!  Screw natural greenery, we have green from a can.  Mmmm."  As if that's not bad enough, what if I was illiterate!?  The picture would look like a higher power is pouring a can of red (obviously one would assume blood) over the world.  Dear Sherwin, is that the type of message you want to send to illiterate America?  Any color pick would have been better than red.  Yellow, just pour down the sunshine.  Or orange, pour cheese on us.  Americans would love that.

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