These things could certainly go hand-in-hand were it not for the poor designers of this world. In this particular case I'm referring to the one "push-tap" that was in the toilet of a restaurant we stopped at for lunch. They had soap but only a cold tap with the infamous push button functionality. The water-conserving specifications of this tap in particular were a little too stringent and, in fact, denied the opportunity for the regular hand-in-hand style of digital cleansing (that's digital meaning fingers and not computers)
The water only flowed from this faucet while one hand was pushing the button. The second you let go it stopped. I recall an episode of The Simpsons (TM) where Bart, posed with the Zen question "What is the sound of one hand clapping?", answered "easy!" and proceeded to demonstrate by flapping his fingers against the heal of his hand to make a clapping sound. That's kind of how I felt trying to rub the soap off the back of my hand with the aid of only the fingers on the same hand and a trickle of cold water.
Obviously, once my left hand is cleansed of the deadly super bug (that's "MRSA", not "MRSI" - which is a Hispanic marketing company) then I have to use it to push the same tap that my potentially contaminated right hand has just been touching. Sounds like a recipe for OCD!
J
