Licking Fingers and Counting Money

Some habitual habits harm health.

Opinion page by Duane Alan Hahn.

Most people would feel silly going around licking everything around them, but they basically do the same thing when they lick their fingers to turn pages or count money. It's a nasty habit that can also make a person sick.

People who lick their fingers to turn pages because they haven't learned the simple skill of turning pages correctly are bad enough, but people who lick their fingers while counting money must be lacking any kind of common sense. Do they have any idea where that money has been?

The money being counted could have been shoved down a stripper's G-string, stuffed in the crevices of a diseased prostitute, used to snort drugs, dropped on the ground, stepped on, sneezed on, and any number of other things and these people wonder why they always get sick.

It's hard enough to stay well in a world where the equivalent of millions of petri dish experiments cover almost everything around us, so to constantly stick your dirty fingers into your eyes, nose, or mouth is insane.