Thank you Otto for the bathroom instructions. :rolleyes:
Count me in as someone who will always kick the flusher in a public restroom. I’m no so much afraid of germs but I certainly don’t want someone’s pee or poop on my hands. Also, there are others besides me who kick flush with shoes that have been on the floor under the toilet with God knows what (pee drips, tampon splash).
Nope. I’m a kicker and will always be a kicker.
I just have a couple questions Parsix, what do you do if it’s a bathroom with hand-dryers, and you don’t find that out until AFTER you have done your business? Or, what if the paper towel dispenser isn’t pull down, but one with the turn cranks? Do you use your BARE HANDS to turn that disgusting crank, covered in filth? Eww…
Honestly, it ain’t gonna kill you. Flush with your hands (people who do not flush for ANY reason of their own fault are disgusting,) wash your hands with some soap and hot water, use a paper towel to turn off the faucet if you’re that paranoid, and leave. As a back-up, in case of no soap, or if you don’t trust the soap, always carry a small bottle of that anti-bacterial hand cleansing stuff that doesn’t need soap or towels.
(Oh, and I agree about the dispensers that are high up, what’s the deal with THAT?)
(And in the words of Willy:
“My God, that paper towel dispenser’s almost empty! It’s on double red lines!”)
I would advise most of you folks to forget a career as Nurse’s Aide. Sheesh!
I’m not a complete freak, just a bit concerned.
In answer to your question…
If there is a hand dryer, I use it. If it is a crank on a paper towel dispenser, then I crank and go, otherwise, I just make resonable effort to keep my hands clean.
There is a place called the “Oyster Pub” here in Daytona Beach that I go to sometimes, they have hand dryers. I am so well known, sometimes I will step to the waitress station and wash my hands. They have papertowels and a nice sink to wash hands in.
I’m not really a freak…
Probably to keep the germ-o-phobes from trying to operate the dispensers with their feet instead of their hands.
I turn around and drive really fast on teh way home.
Count me in on the kickers. I never “sit down” unless they have the seat covers. If the stalls weren’t flushed, I won’t go either.
Here’s the best case scenario. The doors are the kind you can push open by leaning or kicking them. A trough, self flushing(where the water is always running), or auto flusher.
I don’t always wash if I just piss. The reasoning is, I took a shower that morning, then got dressed. That part of my body should be among the cleanest. Unless I pissed on my hands, what’s to worry about? My face, arms, and neck have all been exposed to the air, yet I dont’ have to wash my hands when I scratch my forearm.
Your forgot about the part where “you” have to “turn off” the “water”, using your “clean” “hands” to “touch” the faucet “that” you just put your “germy” hands “all over”.
Germs don’t scare me in the least, but the possibility of poop or pee from someone’s hands after an inadequate butt wipe is something I don’t want to touch, thankyouverymuch.
Ball sweat?
My friend has a theory that he doesn’t wash his hands in bars because women pick up the scent and are attracted to it, unknowingly of course.
Now that’s just silly. It’s gotta be the sloping forehead they’re drawn to.
Bwhaa!
I had no idea people flushed with their foot. That’s just piggish. “OK, I don’t want to get any germs, so I’m going to load the area of contamination with even worse germs” That really boggles my mind.
Just use a big wad of toilet paper! I sure as hell know I’m gonna, after yer shoes have been on it.
My point exactly.
I know I am not the only one to use my foot. I’m sure not going to put my hand on a place that has touched many poop/pee/tampon splash/puke spots on the floor. Why waste a big old wad of toilet paper when a carefully placed gentle karate kick will do the trick?
How ironic.
Considering most of you don’t touch the handle to flush with your germy hands, it should be pretty clean when I reach for it next time.
Thanks for the courtesy!
You mean there are some that are not on weed?
I have no restroom quirks. I touch the handle of the door, toiler, urinal, and sink.
You’re welcome.
As some of you may know, I’m a microbiologist. Many of the lab classes I’ve had during the course of my education have had us do the fun little experiment of swabbing various areas of a building and seeing what grows. There’s always someone who gets various bathroom surfaces, and they always turn out to be the cleanest surfaces tested by anyone. Seriously, bathrooms are generally cleaned far more than anything else, simply because people are so paranoid, and so they end up being all but germ-free. Now, I don’t know if this necessarily applies to your local Denny’s, but generally speaking, bathrooms are no cause for alarm.
I’d suggest taking a closer look in the kitchen, myself, as someone else pointed out.
I always push the flush handle with the back of my hand, or my foot if the handles down low enough.
Oh, so that’s why my food tasted funny. You bastard! 
-Syko
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