Are Americans really this ignorant or lazy :)

[lorli]

Gem,

Paul - Our 1 pound 7 ounce wonder baby!

He's beautiful, I love to hear about miracle babies that make it. Ours didn't and she would be turning 3 the end of this month. Bless you and your family!!!

 

[MouseWorshipin]

The signs are too confusing! Steps one and two are both really two steps. They should have 5 steps so that as we refer to them and look down we don't get too messed up. I tell ya, I was in there for hours trying to figure it all out!

 

[miller2470]

I notice a lot more people than I used to who just leave the restroom without washing their hands.

Thats disgusting!!! I wont even touch the handle on the door to get out without using a paper towel and I use my foot to push the handle to flush the toilet.

 

[crazyj4488]

Wow, this may be one of the longest threads an original post of mine has generated. I guess I should talk about the WDW bathrooms more often. Laff. The reason the subject line read "Are Americans..." is based on the fact the the sign is only in English. While I realize there are many other locales around the world that speak English, the point here was that if SPARKLE or Disney was REALLY putting those signs in there in order to increase handwashing in the WDW bathrooms, it would have been printed in some other languages as well. What about Braille?....they REALLY need those things printed up in Braille!!!

I think we can all come to the conclusion that it was an advertising deal between Disney and Sparkle. I can just see some guys and gals sitting around a conference room table trying to figure out how to satisfy the Sparkle contract without too much in your face advertising in the parks. One guy in the back stands up, slaps his notepad on the table, and yells, "I got it...we put tiny signs in all the bathrooms telling people how to wash their hands...problem solved...meeting adjourned." Hehe.

Seriously though...those signs are just plain old funny. One of the oddest public posting I've seen in awhile. Good stuff.

As a Disney podcaster, I was thinking of doing an around the world audio tour of the bathrooms at WDW. I could get good stereo sound of all the different music pumped into the particular bathrooms and review things like cleanliness, toilet paper roll-off smoothness, automatic water faucet response time, and toilet flush swirl velocity. Hrmmm...the gears are turning people. I'll be the most popular Disney based podcaster in no time with ideas like this. LOL. Subscribe with ITunes now!!!

 

[grimley1968]

So is there another sign somewhere that informs people that sinks are not urinals?

Seriously, I guess I have to say I'm glad the signs are there. There really do seem to be a lot of people who do not understand the importance of hand washing in a public place.

Thank you, Sparkle (tm) for that public service.

 

[CAD3655]

Were the restrooms near any food service or vending areas? I know in Massachusetts they have to post this in any restroom a food service person may use.

 

[welovedis]

The signs were up when we visited in early January, not sure when they went up.

For those that say they use hand sanitizer, not trying to flame ya, but I don't get it. If your hands are dirty and you hold the sanitzer, open it up and then put it on your hands and rub it around, isn't the bottle dirty from when you touched it originally? I'm just not into the hand sanitzer stuff because it would seem to me that the bottle is always dirty.......just wondering!

I have more issue with the women who decide they cannot urinate into the toilet while sitting so they go all over the seat and then don't bother to clean it up. I mean, I don't care if you choose to stand up & go but clean up your own stuff for heavens sake!

 

[WDWNicole]

I have more issue with the women who decide they cannot urinate into the toilet while sitting so they go all over the seat and then don't bother to clean it up. I mean, I don't care if you choose to stand up & go but clean up your own stuff for heavens sake!

I was just going to post the same thing. It is so disgusting when people "hover" and then not clean up after themselves. I assume they are hovering because they think the toilet is unclean... well you just made it 10X worse by not cleaning up after yourself.

 

[Amy&Dan]

I have more issue with the women who decide they cannot urinate into the toilet while sitting so they go all over the seat and then don't bother to clean it up. I mean, I don't care if you choose to stand up & go but clean up your own stuff for heavens sake!

Oh that is too funny and too true! I have a female relative who I love dearly but she is always lecturing me on how to "educate" my daughter on the art of not sitting on the toilet. My daughter is a typical small kid, I don't think its possible for her to pee in a toilet without sitting on it, her legs aren't long enough. Anyway one time I used the stall after my relative did and her pee was all over the seat. Really gross, even if it is family! I have educated my children to wash, and wash properly after using the bathroom. I used to have them wash their hands after I changed their diapers to get them in the habit. But no, I have not educated my daughter on how to not sit on the toilet and thereby leave a nasty mess for somebody else!

 

[lsteadman]

The ART of the SQUAT must be taught at young age!

It required disciplined teaching in the area of muscle control, balancing, holding up or to the front your undergarments, and percision accuracy.

It takes practice to become a Master Squatter!

 

[maddhatir]

These signs are all over WDW in the restrooms. What the heck is going on? Didn't get much response over in the trip reports. Anyone? Bueller? This is CRAZINESS!!

i posted on the other site- but this is what i think....


These types of "instructions" are for all the "ding dongs" who dont have any common sense and need instructions....or else you know what can happen....lawsuit of some kind i am sure! i can hear it now.....well i got e-coli from not washing my hands because no one told me i had to, so it is everyone elses fault but my own because i am a ding dong!

kind of like on my schredder- it shows you a picture of a tie with a slash over it--- like who would really need to be told this stuff??

 

[Amy&Dan]

The ART of the SQUAT must be taught at young age!

It required disciplined teaching in the area of muscle control, balancing, holding up or to the front your undergarments, and percision accuracy.

It takes practice to become a Master Squatter!

Well I can tell you that my aunt and most others haven't mastered this one yet!!!

 

[k5thbeatle]

i posted on the other site- but this is what i think....


These types of "instructions" are for all the "ding dongs" who dont have any common sense and need instructions....or else you know what can happen....lawsuit of some kind i am sure! i can hear it now.....well i got e-coli from not washing my hands because no one told me i had to, so it is everyone elses fault but my own because i am a ding dong!

kind of like on my schredder- it shows you a picture of a tie with a slash over it--- like who would really need to be told this stuff??

This is the EXACT reason! Lawsuits abound in this country and nobody is ever at fault for their own actions (or lack thereof)!

 

[maddhatir]

The ART of the SQUAT must be taught at young age!

It required disciplined teaching in the area of muscle control, balancing, holding up or to the front your undergarments, and percision accuracy.

It takes practice to become a Master Squatter!

BUILD UP THOSE THIGHS AND QUADS YOUR GONNA NEED THEM!!

not only do i wash my hands-- but i also scrub my fingernails into the palm of the opposite soapy hand to get underneath them......too anal???

 

[SimonV]

Wow, this thread is in danger of becoming a real DIS legend - all over a bathroom sign!!

And I must admit, when I first saw these signs, they did make me go 'Huh?!' Does anyone really think we need to be told how to wash our hands?? (Frankly, I'm with those who think you should dry your hands first to save time.......)

I could understand (yet another) Disney commercial deal to add Sparkle bathroom products if the signs just said something like 'Sparkle would like to remind all our guests to wash their hands.' But something as asinine as this really takes the biscuit (or cookie, I should say ). The day I need instructions on one of the most basic of functions will be a sad day indeed; what next - please chew your food AFTER you put it in your mouth.........?

(And it IS a straightforward commercial deal - there is nothing in Florida law which requires people to be told how to wash their hands; or even that it is a good idea And it isn't a legal loophole issue either; otherwise they would have to warn people not to have too much fun!)

 

[goofyernmost]

Just exactly what disease was ever transmitted via a toilet seat? To my knowledge, none. But I haven't done a lot of research on the topic.

 

[cstraub]

The signs were up when we visited in early January, not sure when they went up.

For those that say they use hand sanitizer, not trying to flame ya, but I don't get it. If your hands are dirty and you hold the sanitzer, open it up and then put it on your hands and rub it around, isn't the bottle dirty from when you touched it originally? I'm just not into the hand sanitzer stuff because it would seem to me that the bottle is always dirty.......just wondering!

I have more issue with the women who decide they cannot urinate into the toilet while sitting so they go all over the seat and then don't bother to clean it up. I mean, I don't care if you choose to stand up & go but clean up your own stuff for heavens sake!

I usually leave my purell out in the stroller. Yes, my hands are dirty when I touch the bottle but who cares I'm about to douse them with purell. I put the purell away before I rub it around on my hands and my childrens hands. Not sure if that explains it but the bottom line is, the hand santizer bottle is put away before I use my glob of purell.

After hand sanitizing it's off to touch the dirty stroller handle!

 

[MouseWorshipin]

I don't always wash. There, I said it.

When I work (as a nurse) I have to wash my hands so much that they are always dry and cracked. Soap and water is better for getting stuff off your hands than that alcohol-based stuff, but washing brings microbes up from deeper in the skin. So, now they want us washing a gazillion times and then applying alcohol to our hands on top of it.

To tell the truth, it is so hard on the skin that some nurses (and most doctors) just don't do it. But I do, and it shows on my dry, cracked - sometimes with blood in the cracks - skin. Yeah, they give us lotion, but it doesn't help if you wash your hands 75 times a day and add alcohol for half of them (I don't add the alcohol when I leave a room, because I just have to wash again when I turn the corner to the next room.

Of course, in the hospital I always, always wash. Before eating or preparing food I'll wash.

But when I can get away without doing so, I will. If I don't have any contact with a bodily secretion, I'll either rinse or just walk out.

Geez, I feel like I'm confessing here.

 

[helenm29]

YIKES! I must be really naive! I didn't think about women DOING that sort of thing! have they ever heard of SEAT COVERS! EWWWW! it sure makes me think more about cleaning the toilet seat off before I use it! those handy wipes I carry will certainly come in "handy".

 

[cstraub]

YIKES! I must be really naive! I didn't think about women DOING that sort of thing! have they ever heard of SEAT COVERS! EWWWW! it sure makes me think more about cleaning the toilet seat off before I use it! those handy wipes I carry will certainly come in "handy".

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