You want me to touch the bathroom door handle? With my hands?
Riding the subway.
Everyone else: A method of transportation that allows you to get from one point in the city to another. Often part of one's daily commute to work.
Germaphobes: A moving metal box covered in dirt, grime, and other people's sticky fingers. Do NOT touch the poles.
Throwing away trash in a public setting.
Everyone else: A process in which you approach the trash receptacle, open the bin with one hand, and throw your trash in with the other.
Germaphobes: A struggle to push the bin open with the thing you are throwing away and release it into the bin before the flap can shut and trap it halfway. Under no circumstances should you yourself touch the bin.
Actually, anything involving trash in general.
Everyone else: You fill the bag, you take out the bag.
Germaphobes: You fill the bag, being careful never to touch anything already in it, then hope that your roommates will take it out so you don't have to touch any of that nasty stuff again.
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Meeting someone new.
Everyone else: You say hello and shake that person's hand in a friendly gesture of goodwill.
Germaphobes: You say hello and shake that person's hand and spend the next 20 minutes freaking out about whether or not they washed their hands properly the last time they went to the bathroom.
