Wow! As young as you are, it must mean the Clean Habit persisted into the next generations. No wonder they thought my mom's "river people" were dirty. Her uncle lived in a tar-paper shack and he washed dishes by soaking them in a gunny sack in the river. The Cedar River! Which didn't run clear and clean even in the 1930s. No surprise, it wasn't germs that killed him, it was a truck. Like my dad always says -you can diet and exercise and pass on the donuts and give up smoking and get hit by a train and die young anyway.