Mopeing or mopping

, With the unrelenting snow here in the Midwest we have all experienced the dirty floor dilemma. Walk in from the snow with wet shoes and make the floor dirty, wash floor, repeat, fact of life. 

 Fitting my retail hours in with my other jobbie job I tend to work at night and I end up mopping the floor at work. It is by no means my passion to create clean floors, just part of the job. I have observed there are 3 kinds of walkers on wet floors. 

1. The over cautious I'm so sorry I'm walking on your clean floor. 

2. The why are you in my way I'm walking here. 

3. And the no attention whatsoever slip and fall on there butt on the wet floor.  

Alas as long as no one falls and I have to mop up blood I don't care. A few days ago I learned the strangest thing; apparently, I have been incorrectly mopping for quite some time. I was under the impression that clean water and soap were the key to cleaning floors. I am not supposed to use any soap in the water, because all soap type products ruin the wax on the tile. 

 For some reason smearing dirt in circles with dirty water seems counterintuitive. And using floor cleaning products made for waxed tile would make sense. But what do I know, I am just a plebe.