Yes, it is a parent's concern - this foot-flushing practice certainly does concern me. As a mom, I can tell you that both of my boys obviously go into a bathroom stall by themselves - I take my youngest son with me into the bathroom, but he goes into the stall by himself. Both of my boys do wash their hands properly after going to the washroom. However, if someone has used their foot to flush, while we use the normal flushing method by using our hand, that means that everything on the shoe of the foot-flusher has transferred to the flusher (which my son just touched to flush), then is transferred to the doorlock (which my son just touched to unlock the stall door), then is transferred to the door itself (which my son just touched to open the door). Then he'll go wash his hands - but, along the way to the sink, he has just put a multitude of germs/fecal matter/whatever else onto the door lock, the door handle and the door itself. That'll be nice for the next person too, hey?
I'm not even remotely a germaphobe - we use the provided bedding, we walk on the carpet barefoot, we do not sanitize anything, we even use the bedspread - but foot-flushing is inconsiderate of others. Just use a piece of toilet paper, people - it's not rocket science.
And the "what ifs" are on their way to getting a little out of hand.
I foot flush because I don't feel the need to bend down to the lever as it's quite low on many toilets. And I don't want my face that close to the bowl.
Lucky for everyone, it seems most toilets these days have automatic flushers.
Anyone else think the ridiculousness of this thread is funny?bb
I feel sorry for the OP because she only wanted to know if other people bring their own bedding. Little did she know she had opened up a can of worms!
Oh I find it hysterical. The point is that we all need to wash our hands, just as thoroughly, every time. Assume that there are germs everywhere and wash. . YOu can assume that the person before you foot flushed and I will assume that some bug infested child has just pooped all over her hand and touched the lever. In any case, I'm going to wash equally as well even if I were peeing in Cinderella's own magical stall presumably cleaned with tiny little brushes by tiny little mice (who hopefully do not carry the plague)
Some posts I started to laugh out loud and my DH kept asking me what was so funny.
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I can't seem to pry myself away from this thread!
A few observations I have made by reading this:
1) I must be full of germs and I must be a walking petri dish of growing bacteria.
2) Nobody has brought up the fact that swimming pools have more fecal matter floating around than on the toilet handle from foot flushing. Every time we went to the hotel when the boys were toddlers we would come home and within a day they would have rotovirus, and for those of you who have never experienced rotovirus consider yourselves lucky!
3) I have to ask if you are a giant??? I just went to the bathroom to see how low my toilet lever was because you mentioned bending down. From my experience with my toilet and from those in public restrooms where the handle is a good 3 feet off the ground, you must be really tall in order to feel the need to bend that low to reach the handle.
But I do have to agree about the automatic toilet flushers -- it will make the world a happier place!
This thread is starting to go down the toilet!
You know what though - automatic flushers aren't always that great. When I first got engaged, my ring hadn't been sized yet. We went to visit fiance's aunt in the hospital. I wiped. I heard the telltale CLINK. My ring had fallen in the toilet. OMG...was the toilet an automatic flush? What the heck was I going to do?? I peered back trying ever so carefully to not lift my butt too high from the seat in case that would set off the automatic flusher (that always happens, you know, talk about gross - I love getting sprayed with toilet water in my most private of all regions). Shew. It was NOT automatic flush. I stood up, reached in the toilet and plucked that precious diamond ring out. Thank GOD it was only a number one, if you know what I mean.
And strangely enough, I was telling this story to a coworker at my previous job and he shared that he had the SAME thing happen at WDW while in a bathroom in MK. It was his wedding band. It was an automatic flush toilet. And it was a number 2. He said his wife was getting worried that he was taking so long. LOL
My sister also flushed her keys down an automatic flush toilet where she worked. She was turning around the keys fell out of her very shallow pocket and right into the toilet. She said it was like slow motion. She screamed, "NOOOOO" and just watched helplessly as those keys swirled and swirled around that toilet. The manager than announced the mishap over the PA system. LOL!
All true stories. I poop you not.
.Yes, it is a parent's concern - this foot-flushing practice certainly does concern me. As a mom, I can tell you that both of my boys obviously go into a bathroom stall by themselves - I take my youngest son with me into the bathroom, but he goes into the stall by himself. Both of my boys do wash their hands properly after going to the washroom. However, if someone has used their foot to flush, while we use the normal flushing method by using our hand, that means that everything on the shoe of the foot-flusher has transferred to the flusher (which my son just touched to flush), then is transferred to the doorlock (which my son just touched to unlock the stall door), then is transferred to the door itself (which my son just touched to open the door). Then he'll go wash his hands - but, along the way to the sink, he has just put a multitude of germs/fecal matter/whatever else onto the door lock, the door handle and the door itself. That'll be nice for the next person too, hey?
I'm not even remotely a germaphobe - we use the provided bedding, we walk on the carpet barefoot, we do not sanitize anything, we even use the bedspread - but foot-flushing is inconsiderate of others. Just use a piece of toilet paper, people - it's not rocket science.
