How do you flush (public restroom)?

[tae1218]

Another foot flusher here.

 

[NYDisGuy]

Another foot flusher here.

If you don't mind me asking, Where was that picture taken in your sig?

 

[monkey68]

Foot flusher here too. The handle always seems wet, and it's just icky to me to touch it, so foot flusher. If the handle is too high, I will use some TP and flush.

 

[pppiglet]

I'm with hand flushers on this one. Your foot is going to track it everywhere!

 

[wendylady36]

I always use my foot! I despise touching public bathroom handles.

 

[themarquis]

lol! Here's my question for you "footies"

I feel like I've asked some people this, but I never get a satisfactory answer!

Why is it bad to flush with your hands if you're going to wash them anyway?

Say the handle gets germs on your hand. Your hand already has germs on it from going to the bathroom (and whatever you were doing before you went to the bathroom). That's why you wash your hands. It doesn't make a difference if you've added a few from the handle, right?

that being said, I'd agree that getting toilet water splashed in your face (never happened to me) might be an okay explanation ...

 

[kangareaux]

I'm with hand flushers on this one. Your foot is going to track it everywhere!

OK...those with the *foot tracking the germs around* arguement. Ummm.....hello(?!?) your foot was just on the bathroom floor! Is that not worse than the toilet handle? Your shoes are already disgusting just by being IN the bathroom.

OT...one thing I have learned in a school is NOT to tie kids shoe laces. Ever grab wet shoe laces on a kindergarten boy? THINK ABOUT IT...

 

[CookieDiva]

As I mentioned before, I flush with my hands. Then I WASH my hands, turn the water off with the paper towel, dry my hands with the paper towel, use the paper towel (or my back end) to open the bathroom door and then deposit the well used paper towel in the nearest trash can.

So where do I get the germs?

 

[KPeveler]

i use my cane! figure that keeps me 3 ft away from it!

 

[phamton]

If you don't mind me asking, Where was that picture taken in your sig?

I'm not Tae, but I can tell where the picture was taken with the Simpsons characters. It is Universal Studios.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

do all ofyou foot flushers then open the stall door with something other than your hand? if not then you're just touching something that someone who flushed with their handtouched--thus transferrance has occured!!!!!

me, ehh, I use my hand. open up the door, wash my hands, then use my bare hand to open the door.....and I've yet to get any major communicable diseases

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

OK...those with the *foot tracking the germs around* arguement. Ummm.....hello(?!?) your foot was just on the bathroom floor! Is that not worse than the toilet handle? Your shoes are already disgusting just by being IN the bathroom.

OT...one thing I have learned in a school is NOT to tie kids shoe laces. Ever grab wet shoe laces on a kindergarten boy? THINK ABOUT IT...

OK I think i brought up the foot tracking issue, but I was just being silly. My point is not that foot flushing is incredibly dangerous, just that you can wash your hands. If touching the germs is that disgusting, I don't really get why touching them with your shoe is better.

I don't actually think there are deadly germs on toilet handles, so I use a convenient body part, one that's at the right height and that I'm skilled with using aka my hand. And then I wash it. And then I forget about it.

 

[npmommie]

OK, so assuming there's some deadly bacteria on that handle, and I flush with my hand, then it gets washed off when I wash my hands and life is good.

Now, I flush with my foot (I assume you actually mean with your shoe, right, noone takes off their shoe and really uses their foot do they?), then I go home and walk with those same shoes on the carpet, then I sit on the carpet and play monopoly and my hands are on the same carpet . . .

I guess I don't get the foot thing.

I don't allow shoes in the house, they come off at the door, there is an area where shoes go. it icks me out to think of shoes on in the house, no telling anything we step on outside!
gross. i see people spit in parking lots, and who knows what else is on the ground, animal poop, pee, who knows.
no shoes in the house!

lol! Here's my question for you "footies"

I feel like I've asked some people this, but I never get a satisfactory answer!

Why is it bad to flush with your hands if you're going to wash them anyway?

Say the handle gets germs on your hand. Your hand already has germs on it from going to the bathroom (and whatever you were doing before you went to the bathroom). That's why you wash your hands. It doesn't make a difference if you've added a few from the handle, right?

that being said, I'd agree that getting toilet water splashed in your face (never happened to me) might be an okay explanation ...

My biggest reason to flush with my foot is not only do I not want to touch someone elses poop germs, I dont' want the toilet water splashing up on me... I am short so I have to lean, if I do my foot, my leg can reach while I lean my face BACK!! LOL
I wash my hands, then turn off the water with paper towel, and use paper towel to open the door.
and I am going to gross some more people out, but if there are no paper towels, I use my foot to open the door to get out.

 

[npmommie]

I have to add, its quite a workout to go to the bathroom in public, so I avoid it at all costs. I have been known to hold it for hours til I get home
thats how much i hate public bathrooms

oh and one more thing to gross some people out.
once my SIL and I walked into the JC Penney bathroom, and there was a woman in the stall, she didn't close the door the entire way, she looked Korean or Vietnamese. I am not sure, but she was standing on the toilet seat,squatting over it peeing. no kidding.
We walked out immediately.

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

OK, I don't know why my post appeared twice, so I'll just use this opportunity to say that I can't believe that I have now posted 4 (5?) times on a toilet flushing thread!

 

[npmommie]

If touching the germs is that disgusting, I don't really get why touching them with your shoe is better.

.

Because we don't eat with our shoes, we don't hold our kids hand with our shoe, we don't scatch our face with our shoe.........

some of us are incredibly skilled at foot maneuvers

 

[BabyPiglet]

I don't allow shoes in the house, they come off at the door, there is an area where shoes go. it icks me out to think of shoes on in the house, no telling anything we step on outside!
gross. i see people spit in parking lots, and who knows what else is on the ground, animal poop, pee, who knows.
no shoes in the house!

Just curious, how do you feel about people's dirty feet being all over your carpet?

I'm an occaisonal foot flusher, but mostly I flush with my hand. Then I wash my hands thoroughly.

What I hate is when I go to open the (main) door and it's all wet from other people's hands. Nasty.

 

[pigletgirl]

In a public place I use my foot. Same in the dorm too.
At home I use my hand, knowing the bathroom is properly cleaned.

 

[Fintastic]

I use my hand. I'm just going to wash it a few seconds later, so what's the big deal? I actually think it's more disgusting for people to use their feet. The bottoms of people's shoes are a lot grosser than their hands, after walking around everywhere, and it spreads a lot more germs using feet to flush than using hands to flush.

 

[NotUrsula]

For the foot flushers: Y'all DO realize that germs are mobile little critters that move without help from us? They would migrate from the floor up to the toilet rim eventually, but y'all are giving them a nice boost, because they ARE subject to gravity like anything else on this planet, and it's harder for them to move up than down. Add in the tendency of porcelain toilets to sweat in warm bathrooms, sending the moisture downward to the toilet seat, and you are doing a great job of "pollinating" the crud on the floor onto the surfaces of the toilet that your skin is likely to touch.

What I want to know is, when do you scrub the soles of your shoes in this scenario?

The truth is that between the hoverering sprinklers and the foot-flushers, y'all spread a lot more potty crud around than I do, with my scandalous tendency to SIT on the toilet seat and actually use my washed-several-times-per-day hands to work the flush lever.