Thank Dog, I thought I was alone. I do that with the buttons in elevators too and I never hold the black rail on escalators, especially after I had witnessed someone doing something not so nice and putting their hands on the rail. Yuck!!

Now that it's regularly in the 80s here, the absence of hygiene among some members of the community is becoming very obvious.

Yeah but at least you can use the ATM and your cell phone without risk of blowing up.