# If you fail to wash your hands after using the bathroom, you may as well take a crap **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 16, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093 "2003-01-16T23:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/61 "2003-01-19T02:08:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wikkidpis \* > \*\*Yale graduate & Harvard graduate go into the men’s room to take a leak. The Yalie finishes first and heads for the door. Harvard guy says, “at Haa-vaad, they taught us to wash ah hands aftah using the rest room”. Yale guy replies, “at Yale they taught us not to piss on our hands”. \*\* Must resist… Oh hell, I can’t. Doesn’t anybody [read the columns](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_220.html) anymore? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/62 "2003-01-19T07:16:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mayflower \* > \*\*Would this be the story behind the name **blowero**? 😉 > \*\* No, but that’s a good one. I’ll have to consider that as an alternate meaning. Blowero is actually a pun on “Bolero” - it’s what we used to call it when we played that piece back in music school. Bolero = Blow-ero Hary Janos = Hairy Anus William Tell = William Hell Les Preludes = Let’s Play Rude etc. ---
**Author:** ![senor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@senor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senor)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/63 "2003-01-19T07:58:31Z")
Hola! A Chinese and a Japanese were taking a pee in a bathroom and the Chinese man failed to wash his hands. TheJapanese piped in “In Tokyo, we wash our hands when we urinate.” The Chinese shot back in truth, “In China, our mamasan teaches us not to pee on our hands!” HEEHEEHEE. ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/64 "2003-01-19T08:25:25Z")
Jack Batty: > [@](#): > > Because it’s a fight fought in vain. I’m not a germaphobe. It just seems wrong to wash my hands, and then go touch the door handle, which probably has the highest concentration and variety of germs in the whole building. Besides, its more fun to open doors with your feet. Next thing you know you’ll be telling me you don’t use your foot to flush either! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/65 "2003-01-19T12:40:50Z")
Nighttime, I understand, but as soon as you _do_ touch something with your hand, you’re already defeated. Listen, as I’ve said a number of times, I do wash my hands when I go to the bathroom, I do realize the hygenic value of it. All I’m saying is (with apologies to Mojo Nixon): Germs are everywhere Germs are everything Germs are everybody Germs are still the king. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/66 "2003-01-19T12:44:06Z")
Oh, and by the way … > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nightime \* > \*\*Next thing you know you’ll be telling me you don’t use your foot to flush either! \*\* I refer you to my previous post: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Your Truly_ > \*\*I flush the toilet, turn on the faucets and open the door with my tongue. \*\* * * * (Actually I usually do flush with my foot, but that’s more a matter of efficiency for my – I can do up the old trousers and flush at the same time, thus limiting the time I must spend with my own foul odors.) ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093/67 "2003-01-19T15:28:43Z")
LOL, I always get a kick out of these threads. They occur quite often. Before I give some frightning info to the germaphobes, I just have to say that I generally wash, and always wash when I drop the kids off at the pool. These people that use towels to open the door and freak out because somebody opened the door with a hand that they didn’t wash doesn’t realize something- Floating particles. Yep, if you smell the shit, you are breathing it. Eating it, getting it in your nose, getting it in your hair, and getting it on that doorhandle. Whether or not the guy washed his hands or not, there is shit everywhere in the bathroom due to the air currents. Even on the faucet handles, even on the soap. (unless it is covered) So, those times I am in too much of a hurry to wash after taking a piss, I just realize that my hands are less dirty from peeing, than from grabbing the door handle. They should put the sinks OUTSIDE the bathroom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fail-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-bathroom-you-may-as-well-take-a-crap/149093.md?page=3)