Originally Posted by
evergrn
That's kind of crazy for this woman to try to wipe down your tray/screen.
Of course I don't do that, and I try to do the wipe thing quickly and discreetly. Even then, I sometimes have people give me weird looks. I really hate that. Do I seem that strange and OCD to be wiping down things that are known to be filled with germs? I wish more people did the wipe-down so I don't stand out, but apparently most Americans don't think about these things.
It's emotional vs. intellectual. Germs worry you which is perfectly valid because they can make you sick or even kill you. The other position is we are constantly surrounded by so many of them that wiping down an airline armrest is a futile exercise that isn't going to make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.