Going to the Texas Roadhouse when we receive our tax refund has become an annual ritual, so as soon as my husband was home from work yesterday, we were out the door to dinner. The Roadhouse is our favorite place to go because they load you up with peanuts, and the most delicious soft rolls with cinnamon butter, as soon as you're seated. You can dig right in, and skip those awful 5 minutes of waiting and playing tap-your-fingers-on-the-tabletop before a waiter comes to the table.
I couldn't wait to get my hands on the cinnamon rolls, but first we had to sanitize. As I reached into my purse for my small travel sanitizer, I remembered that the last time I used it there hadn't been much left, but I thought I could get just enough out of it for the two of us. Wrong! I couldn't even find it. I must have thrown it away, meaning to replace it, and forgot. I was gleefully happy (I was practically salivating over those rolls sitting in front of me) that I had just stocked my purse with a bunch of my recent freebies, and knew one of them was the Gold Bond Hand Sanitizer/Moisturizer sample.
There are two things I wouldn't be able to be stranded on a desert island without (three, if you count Diet Coke). The first one is hand moisturizer, and the second is sanitizer. I suppose I wouldn't have to worry about the nasty handles on gas pumps or bank tubes at the drive-up window (both of which I won't touch without a paper towel....) on a desert island, but here, at dinner, I need to clean my hands before I can eat my food. If we had been out, I would have gone to the ladies room and washed my hands, but since we had been home, I knew my hands were clean and I just need a quick-sanitize (and then a bit of lotion). Using hand sanitizer and then following up with a moisturizer has become as common to me as brushing my teeth.
Even though I was missing my hand sanitizer, I did have my hand lotion in my purse, but found that after using my free sample of Gold Bond Hand Sanitizer with Moisturizer, I didn't have to use my hand lotion. My hands didn't feel dry after using the sanitizer with moisturizer. The package says there are 7 essential vitamins, but I don't care about that. Why do my hands need vitamins? I wonder if the vitamins are what makes the moisturizer.
My sample came with a .55 coupon off one, so I will be purchasing this product when it goes on sale (hopefully they have a travel or smaller size) to replace the two products I currently lug around with me in my purse. I love free samples and all of this 'try it before you buy it' I've been able to do lately. Unless a really great deal caught my eye on the Gold Bond Sanitizer with Moisturizer (and I had a coupon), it's not a product I would have paid attention to. Now it is, especially since I've tried it and I do have a coupon.
My kudoos to the Texas Roadhouse, too, for their attention to hand sanitization. As we were leaving the restaurant, I noticed a hand sanitizer dispenser on the wall. Yea! It was easily accessible, and I'm comforted with the fact that it has probably become habit for the waitstaff to use it. I wonder if Gold Bond could get the refill contract!
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