Perpetual Smile

Apparently more and more grocery stores are setting up shopping cart wash stations. These stations are supposed to kill all of the germs living and breeding on your shopping cart, just waiting to give you or your kid a cold.

Now, I’m all for washing my hands after I use a public bathroom or sneezing on my arm. I’ll sometimes use that Purell hand sanitizer. For the life of me, I cannot begin to understand why people — particularly new parents — are such germophobes. It’s a proven fact that we need germs to protect our bodies from diseases. They help us to build up healthy immune systems so we don’t catch dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis or the measles. The more exposure you have, the healthier your immune system is; you get sick less. The flu shot gives us just enough exposure to keep us immune from the flu virus, by exposing us to the germs that cause the flu.

So thanks, germophobes. Because of you, our entire species will be killed off within twenty years by the common cold, all because of your damn shopping cart sanitization stations and your stupid handiwipes at the cheaper supermarkets. Captain Trips, here we come.