Hand Wash Gel

I was recently in Lanka. I stayed with a friend and her mom for the last 2days there. My friend introduced me to some hand wash bottle. Said that it was 99.9% hygienic and was used to apply on the hands before eating to wash em.

I asked her why cant we just use water to wash our hands before eating? She replied saying that water wasn’t always available when we are eating out. I told her that then there would be something called fork, spoon and knives available then. She still protested saying that sometimes even those wont be available and gave me the bottle to test it on my hands.

Anyone of u ever use ‘Bonjela’? well, its something like that. I put it on my hands and rubbed it on both. And there I was clenching my fingers and making a disgusted face as it seemed sticky on my hands. I told her that there was no way I was gonna eat ANYTHING from these hands now WITHOUT washing it all off. Else it would jes feel weird.

Then I slowly put my tongue on my hand and tasted it, to which she was all shocked and went “Eughhhh! Ur not supposed to do that. That’s jes so yucky!”. I was thrown back in shock ofcourse. “so ur telling me that its wrong to put this stuff on my tongue even to taste it but its all right to rub it on both hands and then put those hands in food and eat that food?????”. Seriously, whats up with that? Hama keumuge kurin ai dhonnan masakkathakah hadhaafa oi echchekey. Ppl will come up with jes anything these days. Its like there’s a gel and cream for every inch of the body. We are so artificial nowadays.