Re: Don’t know about you
I wear gloves in the corridor. Often to and from dissection demonstrations to the pupils. I would be happy to do this without gloves, I’m not squeamish at all. The gloves are so that afterwards I can take the right glover off so I can put my hand in my pocket to unlock the door of my cave (I have no windows and automatic lights).
Gloves in labs are worn for two, sometimes overlapping, reasons.
1. to protect you from what you are handling/working on.
2. To protect what you are working on from you.
If I have been wearing them for 1 but they remain pristine because I’m careful and have VERY steady hands then may decide not to require another pair and wear them while going to speak to a teacher.
Back when I was a researcher we wore double gloves in the Hot Lab. With our finger monitors over the first pair. The nucleotides were working with could not penetrate two gloves with their radiation. Short lived things like 32P. Made the counter scream but had a use by date. We regularly got fresh nucleotides.
These days a lot of that is done with fluorescence since the detectors have become very much more sensitive. The labs of my later career had no hot labs. I did not miss it.