nice knobs

massaging hand cream into your hands, after washing them, keeps them youthful and soft. where’s the point in having beautifully painted nails if the hands are calloused and rough?

however, this is all very time-consuming and generally people forget half the time. I calculate that at the very least I spend 1% of my life washing my hands (after visiting the little girls’ room, before food preparation and after petting/grooming the cats) and that would just be including the cursory * showing-the-hands-the-tap * that often happens in hurried moments rather than the * oh-fuck-what-was-that, that-I-just-picked-up-without-looking * kinda more lengthy painful skin-removing scrub.

I propose to take advantage of the fact that the insides of household doorknobs are pretty much vacant places and if by grabbing said door handle, one could be rewarded with a spurt of sweet smelling lotion into the palm of one’s hand every time we enter or exit a room, handcare would be completed at a stroke.

n.b. I was originally going to suggest banisters that might administer hand cream but decided that was heading for a slippery slope.