I know this sounds gross, and people will have a knee-jerk negative reaction to it, but washing your hands at all in many public bathrooms is pretty nasty. I gu

I know this sounds gross, and people will have a knee-jerk negative reaction to it, but washing your hands at all in many public bathrooms is pretty nasty. I guarantee my <encrypted> is far, far, far cleaner than anything I'd touch in a public restroom. If there's a sink faucet that needs to be manually turned on and off, that's going to be infested with bacteria. If it's a no-touch faucet, then there's no downside to washing (so long as you don't touch the rest of the sink), but I've always felt that all those air-blasting dryers were just blasting bacteria all over the place. I always wash my hands, because societal norms strongly discourage any alternative. But I have no illusions about the fact that I'm picking up more bacteria half the time. If there are no paper towels to dry, I'll almost always just shake the water off and dry my hands on my pants instead. Beyond the bacteria-blasting, I find that hot air dryers take way too long and still leave my hands damp anyway. And if you touch the door handle on your way out, you've thoroughly undone any cleaning you may have just performed. Thankfully I'm not a germophobe, so I follow societal norms and wash lest I'm called out on it, and don't actively think about any of this.