Popular games have changed some in the past few years. While it was only a few days ago when a girl put her hands over my eyes and asked me to guess who, I still wasn't able to come up with the correct name. I guessed Sharon when in fact it had been Susan all along. These juvenile games don't happen in the adult world that often, but when they do it seems as though adults are taking the necessary precautions.
I did not care that Susan had played that stupid guessing game with me, but I did care that she had sanitized her hands. She produced a bottle of hand sanitizer from her purse afterwards, and then told me not to worry about germs getting into my eyes. I smelled the alcohol on her palms and knew that she had rubbed them down pretty solidly.
Children, however, are not following suit. I asked a teenager about this game and its prevalence in the school yard. The anonymous boy replied: "You know that happens all the time....I wish everyone would just wash their hands before racing up behind you to cover your eyes. Last time this girl did it to me...I swear that my eyes were stinging for three days afterwards. I wondered if she had just come from the toilet and skipped the soap altogether."
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