Some People Are So Gross

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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To the woman who was in the bathroom with me at work today, when I sit in the stall in the bathroom and listen to you pee, flush, open the stall door, walk to the door to the bathroom and hear it close behind you without ever hearing you so much as turn on the water to wash your hands it makes me a little sick to my stomach.
When I hear all of those same things BUT I ALSO HEAR YOU PUSH THE PAPER TOWEL DISPENSER EVEN THOUGH YOU DIDN’T WASH YOUR HANDS it makes me have to try very hard not to vomit in my mouth a little bit.

So to all the people who wash their hands after using the bathroom (whether or not a sign on the wall tells you to) I would like to say thank you.

To all the people who don’t wash their hands, and more than that insisting on touching things with their germy hands for what appears to be the sole purpose of spreading disease and bacteria, I say eww to you and I hope the people who handle your food show you the same courtesy you show to others.

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I’m a little concerned about catching the norovirus since according to the news it’s reached epidemic levels in the city in which I work - and I know a lot of the idiots I work with never wash their hands. The local paper mentioned in their front page article that the best way to cut down on transmission is washing your hands. Why don’t adults already know this?!

One incident over the summer kind of grossed me out - a woman exited the stall while I was washing my own hands, and went to the sink too. But not to wash her hands. Nope, she played with her hair and left. Geez, I thought people didn’t wash their hands because it’s too “time consuming” to bother with basic hygiene. Apparently wasted time wasn’t the issue in her case.

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I volunteer at a local hospital once a week and I work at a science center. Every bathroom I enter has signs remind one to wash one’s hands, and how much disease is spread by people not doing so.

I ALWAYS wash my hands, thoroughly.

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Thank you for being one of the clean ones, Guinastasia! And you too elfkin477! If I had cookies I would share them with you, and you would know you aren’t going to get a staph infection from eating them because I wash my hands after I use the restroom.

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From the instruction sheets in the hospital bathrooms, you’re supposed to lather and rinse for at LEAST fifteen seconds. I always do.

People may accuse me of being germaphobic, but I believe it’s been studied and concluded that not washing one’s hands accounts for most cases of sickness and infection in the world. According to the posters in the science center bathrooms, one germ will multiple to seven million in just a few hours. (I forget the exact time).

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I feel terrible about it, but the horrible soap in our ladies room at work gives me giant weeping hives on contact. Today, I ran out of the gel stuff, so I couldn’t “wash” my hands. Ewwwww!

The best I could do was carry a paper towel so I didn’t touch the door knobs, until I got back to my desk and my stash of Clorox wipes (which aren’t great on a manicure, but don’t give me hives). I don’t want to share my germs, and I don’t want anyone else’s. Just Ewwww all around.

It was extra disgusting because there was another woman there. I had a moment of indecision – “long boring story” or “let her think I’m a totally disgusting filthy-pig”? I muttered something about the soap, and hives, and tried to be very obvious about the paper towel.

But, still . . . Ewwww!

I’m sorry!

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Well, for all you know she used hand sanitizer instead. Seems to me the communal soap pump and faucet handles would be really germ-infested, and the paper towel was so she could open the door without touching it. For all you know, she could be incredibly clean and hygeinic.

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This reminded me of a friend’s former boss, who NEVER washed her hands after using the john. She would, however, stand by the sinks and watch others wash their hands.
<<<<shudder>>>>

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I’m pretty sure the paper towel couldn’t be for opening the door because it swings out from inside the bathroom so even a gentle nudge with your elbow would open the door. I generally push the door open with my forearm or something. And I guess hand sanitizer is fine if you have issues with soap like MadPansy64 but this isn’t the first time I have heard or seen someone leave the bathroom without washing their hands otherwise I probably would have chalked it up to an anomaly and forgot about it. People do this all the time (okay, maybe not the paper towel part of it) and I am sick of people being so inconsiderate of others. I mean, for all you know that guy who sits at his desk and digs in his ears and nose all day maybe using hand sanitizer too. They could all be extremely clean people. Or they could be wiping their germs onto every phone, door, vending machine, microwave, and every other surface they touch to share with those of us who wash our hands and try hard to avoid getting really sick. It is even worse because my work tends to be very big on potluck celebrations for almost everything so I know those people that I hear not washing their hands are then handling food and serving it to everyone. I’m sure the soap dispenser and faucets are covered in germs and now so is everything else because of those people who can’t be bothered with basic hygiene.

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I agree that washing one’s hands is good in terms of not spreading germs. However, I fail to get why not washing one’s hands after using the washroom is so horrid.

My washroom routine is as follows: open main door with arm (it just pushes) - I do this with most doors since my right hand has a bit of arthritis - same with the inner door. Examine seat for drips, if some, I’ll hover, if not, seat myself. Do my thing. Obtain enough toilet tissue to ensure that there will be no contact by my hands with anything I’ve produced for distribution and do the cleanup job. Flush toilet with foot (among other things, still the sort hand). Exit.

The only thing I have touched in the entire washroom is the lock, using the side of a finger. Nothing whatsoever is on my hands.

Now what I can do is go grab taps which have been groped by someone who may (though I doubt it) manage to cover herself in her own waste elements. Or who may be sick. She may have washed her own hands but most likely will then, after having done so, grab the still-dry taps with the wet hands, thereby re-transferring her own germs back to herself.

Now, am I dirtier not having touched one single thing or after I’ve grabbed those same taps?

Who on earth gets anything on their hands in washrooms? How can you be that awkward or careless?

I’ll wash my hands for show (when others are there) or if it’s been a few hours and I’ve been touching other surfaces where sick people might have had an opportunity to spread germs, but I see no reason that I should need to wash my hands after having used the washroom given my procedure there.

I wash my hands when I come home from work or shopping or generally when I’ve been out touching lots of surfaces. I’m immaculate in the kitchen and wash my hands after I open the garbage to put something in, when I touch meat, crack eggs, etc. That’s when my hands have touched things which could cause trouble but when I leave the stall, these mitts are clean.

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I think you’re overreacting a bit. I don’t piss on my hands when I use the bathroom so there’s nothing on them to wash off. If there’s anyone else in the room I’ll give them a quick rinse just for show, not because I think they’re dirty. I also have no problem actually sitting on the toilet seat (unlike some in a current Pit thread) as I know I’m not going to catch anything from it. (Frankly I never even knew women hovered until I began reading the Dope.)

Oh, and rarely if ever do I get sick. I can’t even remember the last time I felt anything other than a headache, must have been more than 6-7 years ago. (Never once did I get sick all through my years at college, even living in the dorms with tons of other people.)

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Okay, so on the one hand (ha), the advice is frequent handwashing. I have to balance that against the chapping and cracking that would happen should I wash my hands frequently. My skin *is *that dry, and putting lotion on afterwards isn’t always an option or, frankly, a good solution. So whatever good would be done by washing frequently is undone by the new breaks in my skin I have from doing it too frequently.

I genuinely hope some of y’all who have this post-elimination handwashing phobia thing don’t ever plan to travel abroad in a less than first class hotel setting. I mean, seriously. :slight_smile:

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The best areas of the body for bacteria to thrive are warm, moist areas such as the groin. The skin of your genitals has quite enough lovely bacterial flora all over that you should wash even if you did not piss on your hands. Unca Cecil goes into details.

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How are the soap dispenser and faucets covered in germs if the offending people don’t even touch them?

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Boys need to touch the skin of their genitals. Girls do not. Or if they do, they’re clumsy or wierd or something. There’s nothing we have to grab or point.

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No, but presumably you wipe afterwards, or do you just drip?

I don’t much like the soap in our washroom but I use a little of it and wash my hands every time. I also have some anti-bacterial gel sanitiser stuff at my desk so I can use that during the day.

I hate it when I’ve been faffing about with paper and it makes your hands feel really dirty. Hand sanitiser is my friend!

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I have a feeling that if you did one of those dye tests, you’re touching more then you think.

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I was in the restroom at school washing my hands when I saw a woman exit her stall and leave without washing.

She was one of the piano teachers.

I think I thought about that every time I sat down to practice for the rest of the year.

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For those of you who say that they don’t pee on their hands: Washing helps prevent the spread of other germs, the ones you encounter throughout the day. It will help you have less colds and flus. Since you are in there, this is the perfect time. If you say you don’t get colds or flus, it will help you spread them less.

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Yep, I walk straight back to my desk and use my Aqium pump pack. I don’t want to touch most of the stuff in the toilets. I have two bottles at home as well.