Flush with hand or foot?

[peachgirl]

Where are you guys going to the bathroom that all they have are the handle flushers???? I hardly ever find a bathroom anymore that doesn't either auto-flush or have the button on the wall.

You guys need to update your potty hang-outs!!


As others have said though, considering what you have to touch during a visit to a bathroom, the handle is no big deal.

 

[ElizK]

In public restrooms I flush with my foot always, no matter what kind of flusher, even the handle or manual button. I have very talented toes.

 

[curiouser]

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..........

I actually wipe down my desk phone regularly with Clorox wipes (more to avoid acne chin than germs...)

What I don't get is WHY this such a debate. If we're all washing our hands afterwards WHY does it matter if you use your foot or your hand?! The idea of touching the handle (esp. if its wet with condensation) grosses me out. So I don't.. why does it matter to anyone else?

I think it all depends on how you were raised. My mom was a nurse, too. She raised me to not sit on a public seat, flush with my foot, wash my hands, and push open the door with my elbow if possible.

 

[yeartolate]

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

Me too. I have been in nursing long enough to remember that we didn't use gloves except for paients with hepatitis (and sterile procedures). We would wipe them up with (shudder) naked hands - only a porous wash cloth between me and certain death. Then when MRSA (followed by AIDS) came around, there was all of a sudden an abundence of nonsterile gloves around.

Frog lady, I am a 46 year veteran of foot flushing and non hoverering.

 

[azgal81]

I usually flush with my hand I don't think I could balance on one leg long enough to flush with my foot. I wash my hands afterwards so I don't see the big deal.

 

[U2_rocks!]

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

No kidding!

I've never flushed with my foot in my life, and I doubt I ever will! The visual I have of people doing it makes me laugh!

Honestly, just wash you hands with soap and water. That's all it takes to stay healthy!

 

[yeartolate]

No kidding!

I've never flushed with my foot in my life, and I doubt I ever will! The visual I have of people doing it makes me laugh!

Honestly, just wash you hands with soap and water. That's all it takes to stay healthy!

Get this visual - the same folks kicking open the doors and locking them with their feet. Now I know why the faucets are sometimes running when I go to wash my hands, the kickers can turn them on, but lack the pedal dexterity to turn them off.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

No kidding!

I've never flushed with my foot in my life, and I doubt I ever will! The visual I have of people doing it makes me laugh!

Honestly, just wash you hands with soap and water. That's all it takes to stay healthy!

I couldn't either. I'm such a clutz I'd break a bone or crack my head against the wall

 

[U2_rocks!]

Get this visual - the same folks kicking open the doors and locking them with their feet. Now I know why the faucets are sometimes running when I go to wash my hands, the kickers can turn them on, but lack the pedal dexterity to turn them off.

OMG, that's a visual!

Sorry foot flushers and foot door operators ... I am not trying to insult you, honest. I just find it funny! I guess I don't get why it's so important to perform these gymnastics in the bathroom, so to me it's funny!

 

[U2_rocks!]

I couldn't either. I'm such a clutz I'd break a bone or crack my head against the wall

Yeah, there's that too! Not mention how small some toilet stalls are - some real acrobatics required there!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Yeah, there's that too! Not mention how small some toilet stalls are - some real acrobatics required there!

Then there's us guys who are not nearly limber enough to get our foot up high enough to flush a urinal.

 

[liamsaunt]

I'm a dedicated foot flusher.

Another good tip is to take some paper towels from the roll before using the toilet. You can hold them under your arm until after you wash your hands, and then use your towel as a barricade when you open the door to leave.

Might sound over the top, but if you saw the bathrooms at my office, you would understand.

 

[Loves Disney]

This thread makes me laugh lol.

If some people can't flush a toilet with their hands(which are thereafter expected to wash their hands lol)...I can't imagine how else these people live their lives lol, unless, it's only physcological...that they think bathrooms are far more unsanitary than anything else lol.

Imagine using your foot to handle money...lol. You walk up to the banker (you don't feel like using an ATM lol) and you ask to take out some money including change...lol. The banker hands you the amount only you use your feet to grab it heh. So you're using your toes to clutch it and the poor banker is confused beyond normal lol. Money is extremely dirty...I mean, who knows whether the person who touched that paper or coin picked his or her nose before or God knows what else....lol. You still use your hands for that and most people won't wash their hands after touching money.

There are so many things in life that can be classified as unsanitary...so many things. That doesn't mean we all have to go "ape" on something to avoid getting our hands dirty heh...God forbid we touch something not sterile. lol. It doesn't take much to push the handle on the toilet, walk out and wash your hands lol. If it's something you REALLY hate to do, just bring some disposable gloves and use that lol. As silly as it sounds to secure a rubber glove on your hands to flush a toilet, just think about swinging your leg up to push the handle down...now you tell me which is the funnier sight haha.

 

[curiouser]

Apparently this is the hot topic of the moment!! I went to another community I am apart of and they were debating this, too!!!

 

[TruBlu]

Then there's us guys who are not nearly limber enough to get our foot up high enough to flush a urinal.

How about the ones that are not limber enough to hit the water?

 

[lovesmurfs]

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

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

Me, too! I never considered my foot until this thread. I'm among the uncoordinated who would end up on my **** if I tried. Try explaining THAT to your health insurance company.

 

[TruBlu]

I dance over the potty, flush with my foot, turn faucetts off with my elbow, open the door with my shirt.... Yes, I have OCD and I'm proud of it!

My kids even flush with their foot. DH calls me Howard Hughes...

 

[yeartolate]

How about the ones that are not limber enough to hit the water?

Well, men prefer their timber not to be limber.

I found this on CNN

In fact, many microbiologists say you're better off eating lunch in the restroom than your office, as the average desk has 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat!

Unsanitary as they are (with 20,961 germs per square inch), desks aren't even the worst offenders. A study on office cleanliness performed by the University of Arizona found that phones are even more unsanitary -- harboring 25,127 germs per square inch on the receiver alone!

 

[TruBlu]

Well, men prefer their timber not to be limber.

I found this on CNN

This made me laugh out loud!!! Thanks!!!

So true.....

 

[LoraJ]

I can't believe I'm in with the minority here!! lol. I use my hand. It isn't like I don't wash my hands after anyway. lol.

I know. Do people who use their foot not wash their hands?