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You clean your hands but then you have to touch a probably dirty handle to open the door.
Use the paper
I worked security in pubs, nightclubs and licenced venues for a decade and to this day, I do not wash my hands in public bathrooms. I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
My wife thinks its gross but Ive seen shit that cannot be unseen.
Why does any of that lead to “I don’t wash my hands”? In what scenario is washing your hands the dirtier option? Unless somebody took a shit in the soap dispenser, your hands will be cleaner after cleaning them.
Please clean your hands.
Maybe their bathroom has a manual handle to turn to get the water to start and stop.
Then use the same paper towel they use to open the door to shut of the faucet.
You need to use the paper towel to turn on the faucet, then wash your hands and turn it off with the towel again.
A lot of bathrooms don’t even have paper towels, so OP possibly is at a bathroom where there’s a manual faucet and no paper towels.
I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
They said there are towels but they don’t wash their hands.
Is this the sort of thing people worry about?
Yes? Like brushing your teeth? Or showering?
People don’t know they can hang on to the paper towel to open the door, then Kobe that shit on the way out?
A lot of places put the waste basket by the door for this very reason.
Long sleeves
Bruh, you would be spreading other peoples piss and shit germs on everything your sleeve touches until it’s washed 🫠
Pisses off, especially considering that like 70% of men don’t wash their hands. I’ve become an expert in using my elbow.
Open the door with a paper towel because men are fucking gross.
Tell me you’ve never seen how fucking nasty women’s restrooms are in comparison…
Oh noo toilet seats are too gross! I must hang from the ceiling and rain down piss from 2 meters above. Oh oops I got blood on the seat. I’m sure the next occupant will be happy to clean it up with 1 ply toilet paper!
Imma be real unless you’re full on immune compromised it’s not that serious
I always open doors with my hands (I know, weirdo right?) and very rarely get sick. People are being overly dramatic.
Its not about getting sick. It’s about getting filth on your just cleaned hands.
If it doesn’t get me sick, why care?
Let me guess you also refused to wear a mask during COVID. Sometimes stuff isn’t about you.
Nope, I proudly used a mask, take your assumptions somewhere else.
If you can’t see it and it doesn’t get you sick it’s honestly not an issue beyond being a overly conscious about germs.
Spreading germs can get other people sick. Washing hands is not hard.
That’s what I do all the time. Just use the towel to open it up.
Theoretically, if everyone did the Yes, the But wouldn’t be that big of a But.
Sadly, I’m well aware not everyone does the Yes. Going into a men’s public bathroom is disgusting; it’s disgraceful how many men I’ve seen leave without washing.
My hands harbor far more bacteria than my dick. And so does that door handle, the grossest part of the whole business.
I know where my dick has been. Usually.
All the more reason to wash.
I genuinely don’t even know what you’re trying to say with that comment.
They are saying that they don’t feel like their hands are getting dirty by touching their dick because their dick is in their underpants all day.
The flaw to this argument is that your dick and balls can get sweaty and gross in there. And when you touch it, your hands can get gross too. Not to mention that your hands can get gross just by walking around and touching things in society. And the bathroom stop is meant to be a bio-break that enforces washing all the germs from your hands from walking around in society.
My favorite was a guy in college who came in, used the urinal, used the hand dryer, and left.
i hate this so much
Do you expect him to leave with wet urine on his hands? Those dryers are made specifically for drying urine and blowing away the smell. That’s clearly what the little picture on them means.
And then they ask why you stopped handshaking
Just use the paper towel you used to dry your hands to open the door
This is an additional reason I hate places that use air driers instead of paper towels
after you’ve peed on your hands, open the door, then quickly wash your hands and run out. the wind will dry your hands.
this is why i usually pee on my friends hands. then they have to open the door
Why the unnecessary steps? Just pee on the door handle.
Me waiting someone to come in, so i can get out.
This is the way
I’ve noticed a lot of places now have a trash can conveniently located by the door for this.
I’m that asshole who leaves paper towels by the door until they get the hint.
Just move the bin yourself. They’ll get the hint without extra work.
Some (most) are mounted into the wall though.
Eww then ya gotta touch the bin
Not if you move the bin with paper towel grip
It’s truly amazing how many people including who ever made the picture don’t realize this. It’s kind of like those conversations where people talk about washing spoons and always getting water sprayed on themselves. Or the people that can only wipe standing up. It’s like somehow they just are going through life and not managing the most basic thought processes.
I’ve settled into a routine of pulling the door open with the paper towel, flinging the paper towel into the nearest trashcan, and darting out quick enough without having to keep the door open with my foot or anything. Not necessary, but fun
And some places are smart and put a garbage can by the door, for the reason.
If the trash is not close enough to the door, that paper towel goes on the floor. I know it’s a bit rude, but every public restroom should have it close enough to do this.
Many places put these on the bottom of the door for this very reason. Granted they only help people able to use them.
Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.
Is this not common elsewhere?
That’s what most airports, schools, and such seem to have in my experience. (U.S.)
Which makes it REALLY hard to vape in there
In facilities that have lots of room, yes (malls, schools, etc). Workplaces generally less inclined to devote that much space to it.
My workplace does this, there’s still a door but it’s always open
I wish. I’m surprised we haven’t brought back pay toilets in the US.
I have been joking with my roommate lately that we’re probably only a decade or so out from landlords putting coin-op toilets in apartments. What a capitalist dystopia it’ll be.
Yeah we have that in Europe on highway stops and other places with high traffic of people like stadiums, big concert venues etc.
Nothing like losing your balance or getting your foot jammed when someone slams the door open from the other side. I prefer the wheelchair buttons
Best I can do is a Palantir face recognition device that verify your identity before allowing you out of the bathroom
If you make sure it doesn’t let you out unless you wash your hands, I’m all for it.
Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.
I’ve hyperextended my knee using one. Good times. Hyperextension used to be a “oh that sucked” but as I get older they’re more and more a "oh shit is this the time it fails on me? " territory.
Y’all worry way, way too much about this stuff.
It’s c/humor, it’s not that deep.
That door closer is installed on the wrong side of the door if its a pull, it’s actually a push.
You can see the hinges though, so it is a pull
You are correct, perhaps the door is entirely nonfunctional.
Closers can work from either side, depending on the model.
As everyone has already said, use the paper towels. Some doors are also equiped with a small piece of metal at the base of the door which you step on, and pull with your shoe
That foot thing is an awful design IMO. Rather than a step-on to pull, it should be a design that allows you to flex your foot up and hook it under something to pull. The step-on kind necessarily requires you to put weight on it, letting off pressure on your other foot thereby causing instability. This can be difficult to manage for lighter people or on doors requiring a heavier pull force to open. The hook under kind would stabilize the person trying to open the door.
Counter argument: having to hook your foot runs the risk of damaging the tops of your shoes (often softer material) or your foot if you’re wearing sandals. You can be sure that the bottoms of everyone’s shoes are designed for at least minimal impact protection.
I like the foot step and use them when I can, but it helps to reinforce that the paper towel with a well-placed trash can is the best method imo.
Handicapped people can press down, but not lift up, especially those in a wheelchair.
Neither option is good, tbh. Hook under allows better grip for those capable, but doesn’t allow for some disabled people. Step on increases the likelihood of usability but also increases the likelihood of becoming unbalanced and falling.
Both options ignore the possibility of broken toes when someone on the outside attempts to push the door in at the moment you’ve got your foot planted on it or hooked under it.
We live in an era where automatic doors and push buttons to open them are a well established thing. Do that instead.
Barring that, the hallway with two turns like Walmart uses is an option. Just make sure they’re wide enough for the widest wheelchairs and power chairs, and the turns aren’t too tight.
Ah-ha, so this is the maze entry the other comment was talking about.
The kind you describe is the only type I’ve ever seen.
I don’t disagree, I still use a paper towel. When it was first installed they forgot to modify the mechanism that closes the door on one of the bathrooms. The tension was set still set to prevent someone from being smashed in the face (or the door from slamming shut), but that meant you needed apply a fair amount of force to open the door. They’ve since adjusted it and now it’s pretty easy to open with just one foot
Foot pulls are a part-solution. Accessibility button as well.
My toilet is cleaner than 99% of my ancestors cooking tools.
For a hundred thousand years your ancestors people’s population never broke a million either.
Nah, im part baboon, only been around for a few hundred years tops.
Thanks king kong!
*Donkey Kong
There are a good reasons for this:
Inward opening doors pull air into the bathroom area and both contain the smells and germs, (the opposite is true for outward opening doors) but also bring additional fresh air in.
Doors that open outwards into hallways (where public access toilets are most commonly found) is a huge hazard to people passing the door.Not to mention foot pulls and automatic door openers are becoming more common so you dont have to touch the handle as often.
Lots of newer public toilets (at least in australia) are designed with an s-bend entrance to eliminate doors completely (however require constant exhaust).
Toilets in commercial buildings often have ante-chambers where doors open both ways into the chamber so you have to touch a handle regardless of direction of travel. (Common in offices and hospitals)Huh never considered this, thanks
Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald’s, where it’s constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that’s when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.
Use a paper towel to open the door and toss it into the next garbage you see outside the bathroom. Or toss it into the trash as you leave.
…just use your tongue to pull the door open, that way you can keep your hands freshly-cleaned…
Or just simply lick the hand clean after you’ve opened the door.
This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.
I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.
I just use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands
Recently saw a door with a little tab at the bottom to put your foot on and open it that way, surprisingly functional.
I’ve only seen this in a few places - and of the places most had them installed in the most awkward/ineffective way.
Really? They’re everywhere where I live.
I absolutely love those things. I don’t understand why they aren’t everywhere. I’ve seen maybe half a dozen in my lifetime
They’re not exactly wheelchair accessible so most modern and publicly accessible places would rather install an entrance corridor or a push button door.
But yeah, no reason not to add them to places like warehouses and airports.
Trick question. That door doesn’t work. Someone installed it like an idiot.
I don’t get it bro, the hinges, door closer and handle all are formatted properly to open inward.
Educated your heathen friend here.
the door closer on the top will bind up on itself in that position.
