Just Vintage

via Popular Science July 1918

I cringe when an actor in a movie fills up the sink in a public restroom and rinses his face off.  Do people actually do this?  Do you have any idea how disgusting that sink is?  How many people before you have washed how many types of bodily fluids down that sink?  Do you think the janitor actually has a designated toilet brush and a separate sink brush?  Do you think an expensive restaurant means the kitchen staff keep their hands cleaner too?

Putting that aside for now let’s make something clear: a bath does not get you clean.  It’s great for soaking sore muscles, but you are sitting in your own filth.  If you have a wash basin for your hands, you’re washing your hands in your own filth.  If this was 1918 you could fold up that basin still dripping with your tepid water and stick it in your pocket and use it later.