Flush with hand or foot?

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

For public restrooms I always use my foot. Not much else grosses me out, but I refuse to use my hand in a public bathroom.

 

[yeartolate]

Hand, no matter where.

I've managed to survive 34 years without Purell, I figure there's not much on a toilet handle that's going to kill me now.

Yup. Same here.

I have lived a life without hovering, too.

 

[yeartolate]

Seriously though, why not just wash your hands afterwords?

I have been a nurse working aroud severe communicatable infection for several decades and handwashing has worked well for me. Foot flushing? Come on.

If washing your hands after relieving yourself doesn't work, you are doomed anyway.

Are you guys kicking open the door, too? The lock is probably dirtier than the flusher!!!!!

 

[arminnie]

OT, But I doubly love it when the bathroom has toilet seat covers and I don't have to use toilet paper to cover the seat!

I should know the answer to my question as I was born in California and lived there forever, but does anyone know if it is a law that you have to have seat covers in CA? Because they are EVERYWHERE - even in the dingiest gas station. I've heard that it was a law but never knew for sure.

 

[yeartolate]

Seriously though, why not just wash your hands afterwords?

I have been a nurse working aroud severe communicatable infection for several decades and handwashing has worked well for me. Foot flushing? Come on.

If washing your hands after relieving yourself doesn't work, you are doomed anyway.

Are you guys kicking open the door, too? The lock is probably dirtier than the flusher!!!!!

Idle curiousity, you foot flushers are touching toilet paper that has been touched by other people , You are wiping yourself with a hand that has previously touched the door and the lock. How do you manage this? Seriously.

 

[TinkNH]

In public rest rooms the foot if I can reach

And where there are those automatic flushes..I need to curse the inventor....I know they are great for us adults and all...but is my DD the only one who completly freaks out withthem? When she was in the training stage one flushed with her on it at DH's work...set kid back WEEKS..and she is still afraid of them now 2 years later.

 

[TinkNH]

I feel bad for all those that flush with their hand after all those flush with their foot after being on that nasty floor!! ICK!

THAT is the reason I do flush with my foot!

 

[curiouser]

I feel bad for all those that flush with their hand after all those flush with their foot after being on that nasty floor!! ICK!

Well, we're all washing our hands after, right? So what does it matter if the person before you kicked or pushed?

Yeartolate: I'm curious as to how we're touching TP that's been touched by other people. Just having gone to the bathroom a few seconds ago I recall that its in a roll.. and when you grab the end and start to unravel it (which is in a contained holder, btw) that's all been previously wrapped up. Then you just tug and it unperfs, right?

 

[Cantw8]

neither

leave it for the next person to worry about it

if it's yellow let it mellow

Foot user here

 

[tluvstink]

I'm assuming you are talking about public restrooms. I use my foot, but at home or a friends house I use my hand. And I always wash my hands after


Terri

 

[yeartolate]

Yeartolate: I'm curious as to how we're touching TP that's been touched by other people. Just having gone to the bathroom a few seconds ago I recall that its in a roll.. and when you grab the end and start to unravel it (which is in a contained holder, btw) that's all been previously wrapped up. Then you just tug and it unperfs, right?

Frequently I encounter rolls of tp like at home , not contained in a holder that covers the bulk of the roll.

But stil, you open the door to get in and lock it with your hands, then you take tp that has touched your hands that have touched the lock and the door then you wipe yourself. That must be higher up on the ick scale (assuming you are not gloving up to wipe) than pushing the flusher with a hand that you are destined to wash in 10 seconds anyway. I just don't get it, that is all.If there is something on the toilet handle that will not go away with simple handwashing, we are all destined to die from it anyway.

I think folks go way overboard, and as a nurse I can think of a thousand real world scenarios that are way worse than pushing the handle with your hand --- and you can start with the phone at work..........

 

[SplshMtn99]

Depends on the bathroom. Put usually hand.

Just last week, I went to flush with my foot, & my sandal almost fell off & into the toilet.

 

[SplshMtn99]

OK, this thread is funny. Some of you better not ever travel to some less developed countries. You'll all freak from germs.

 

[disneyjunkie]

foot

 

[disneydude91]

Are you serious?

 

[poohandwendy]

Frequently I encounter rolls of tp like at home , not contained in a holder that covers the bulk of the roll.

But stil, you open the door to get in and lock it with your hands, then you take tp that has touched your hands that have touched the lock and the door then you wipe yourself. That must be higher up on the ick scale (assuming you are not gloving up to wipe) than pushing the flusher with a hand that you are destined to wash in 10 seconds anyway. I just don't get it, that is all.If there is something on the toilet handle that will not go away with simple handwashing, we are all destined to die from it anyway.

I think folks go way overboard, and as a nurse I can think of a thousand real world scenarios that are way worse than pushing the handle with your hand --- and you can start with the phone at work..........

Ok, so exactly what can I touch? Nothing on the way in, nothing on the way out and certainly nothing while in there...but I am supposed to actually USE the restroom, right?

Forget about it, I just take my chances with the germs....

I am totally not a germophobe. If I can't see it, I am certainly not going to waste my time worrying about it. I wash my hands enough to feel pretty confident that public restrooms aren't going to be the death of me. (well, unless I slip and fall from the hoverers who tinkle all over the place)

 

[Sleepy]

You would have to be pretty talented to flush with your hand around here. The lever (if you call it that) is to be pushed straight into the wall and it sets up really high.....usually equal to head height. Since there are no toilet seats, you don't have to worry about tinkled seats. Everyone squats. So, that solves several American issues of bathroom usage.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Ok, so exactly what can I touch? Nothing on the way in, nothing on the way out and certainly nothing while in there...but I am supposed to actually USE the restroom, right?

Forget about it, I just take my chances with the germs....

I am totally not a germophobe. If I can't see it, I am certainly not going to waste my time worrying about it. I wash my hands enough to feel pretty confident that public restrooms aren't going to be the death of me. (well, unless I slip and fall from the hoverers who tinkle all over the place)

Yep, I flush with my hand and.....

sit on the toilet. I've made it almost 40 years so far.

 

[froglady]

Yep, I flush with my hand and.....

sit on the toilet. I've made it almost 40 years so far.

53 years of hand flushing (estimating TT completed around age 2) ....and WASHING....here. AND...shudder...I was in nursing BEFORE universal precautions.

All of this without hovering (unless the toilet was gross looking) either.

 

[Loves Disney]

I'm foot all the way..

But that's you, you don't count. LOL (jk) heh.

neither

leave it for the next person to worry about it

This is just nasty! I'm sorry...but...ew! lol.

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Why don't you just use your hands!? lol, hopefully you all wash your hands anyway afterwards so touching the handle won't do anything but dirty your hands more than 30 seconds.

If you're all so afraid to flush with your hands, are you all afraid to touch the inside of the bathroom door as well? heh, Those handles on the inside of the stall door are just as dirty as the flush handle considering there is no sink in the stall leaving all those hands that touch it, dirty. heh.

Don't tell me you all use your feet to push the stall handle back, and kick the door open...