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Easy. You take one of those paper towels and keep it between you and the handle to open the door. Then you hold the door open with your foot while you try to toss the paper towel.
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.
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
Trick question. That door doesn't work. Someone installed it like an idiot.
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.
I’ve noticed a lot of places now have a trash can conveniently located by the door for this.
That door closer is installed on the wrong side of the door if its a pull, it's actually a push.
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 favorite was a guy in college who came in, used the urinal, used the hand dryer, and left.
i hate this so much
Pisses me off, especially considering that like 70% of men don't wash their hands. I've become an expert in using my elbow.
Edit: pisses off → pisses me off
Open the door with a paper towel because men are fucking gross.
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 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.
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.
Then maybe you should rethink you other comment jackass.
Why be so offensive? I literally just said I don't see a point in being afraid of germs on a doorhandle, since it is not going to hurt you in any way. I have not at any point been rude to you, why be rude to me?
"If it doesn't get me sick, why care?" That's why.
Just because it doesn't make you sick tracking germs/filth around can get other people sick.
And just because you're fine with shit and piss (yours or others) on your hands doesn't mean other people are.
You don't wanna wash your hands at home fine - but "refusing" to wash hands in a public setting is a shitty move.
Again assuming stuff, stop that. I never said I don't wash my hands, just that door handles aren't dangerous. You're wildly overreacting about this.
Spreading germs can get other people sick. Washing hands is not hard.
Tell me you've never seen how fucking nasty women's restrooms are in comparison...
As someone who has spent years cleaning both - men's restrooms are predictably gross the same way every day. Women's restrooms are typically cleaner until they aren't. Then they really aren't. Piss on the floor - not in a stall, blood randomly sprayed around somehow, shit literally smeared by hand on the wall.
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!
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.
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.)
In facilities that have lots of room, yes (malls, schools, etc). Workplaces generally less inclined to devote that much space to it.
In my country it is illegal to have bathroom doors open to the inside. Same with doors leading outside. It was weird to move abroad as I couldn't get used to them opening the other way.
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