Selective Germs?

So tonight, the Brit and I had dinner at the Olive Garden.

I have never quite understood the whole germ-o-phobic thing, so forgive me if you are one, but it just seems to me that there are germs everywhere and that people, especially children, need to be exposed to some of it so that they can built up resistance and other medical things which I know little about.

Anyway, this woman was there with her mother, hubby and two kids, one of the kids being a boy, who was maybe just over a year old.  Mama got there and immediately took out her pack of sanitary wipes and proceeded to wipe down the wooden high chair, including the straps and the table and her chair, etc before she placed her toddler into the high chair.  Immediately, the waiter came over and handed out the menus and the toddler proceeds to play with them and as it seems to me, the menus are probably more full 'o germs than the table was, but mama didn't have an issue with it. 

It got more amusing when grandmama insisted she had ordered her soda as half coke, half diet coke (so is she half on a diet?) and then toddler was given a plastic truck to play with must have come in from their car.  It took about two seconds for the truck to end up on the floor and then out comes the sanitary wipe from mama, who cleans up the car before giving it back to her son.  Two more seconds pass and the truck is on the floor again, but this time, toddler gets the truck with no wipe down.  I'm assuming the first wipe down zero'd out the germs from the second fall.  Then the waiter picks up a crayon that the toddler had dropped and starts to hand it back to him only to have the obviously "filthy" crayon grabbed away by mama, because son had met his quota on germs from the second truck fall.  Does anyone else watch this stuff and think "Gimme a break?"

So, my day off was semi-relaxing though I did spend part of it doing some cleaning/nesting in preparation for surgery.  The best part of the day was sleeping in until 9:30.