I paid a visit to the trade fair to see the University solar catamaran and as I strolled by one of the catering establishments serving foreign food, not the Chinese type, I came across this situation. A middle- aged man behind the counter was preparing a series of wraps, on a mass-production basis. He was dipping his gloved hands in the chopped vegetable container and on a pick and place motion he distributed these ingredients on numerous wraps.

Then, with this hands still gloved, he went to the store and brought out a few more wraps from the cardboard box, which housed the wraps. As he placed the wraps on the table, he went to the dustbin to throw away the cardboard container. With one of his gloved hands he opened up the rubbish bin lid, while with the other gloved hand he put the empty cardboard container in the refuse bin among the existing rubbish. But as this was rather full he placed both gloved hands on the rubbish pile inside the bin and pressed down as hard as he could to lower the level of the rubbish so that the lid could now be closed, which he proceeded to do with his gloved hands.

When he was satisfied that the rubbish bin was closed neatly by re-pushing down on the lid with both gloved hands, he proceeded to pick and place the chopped vegetables on the new wraps as normally as ever. And, believe me, no one else noticed this anomaly in the hygienic sequence of events, with some probably admiring him on how well he protected his bare hands, when handling a rubbish bin before he touched the food!

Gloves are a great invention for protecting hands when handling rubbish bins and food at the same time. Good logic I guess but somehow I believe there could be a flaw, which others did not notice!