Public Restrooms - Unflushed Toilets???

[grinningghost]

Can someone please explain WHY people don't flush public toilets? It's so gross.

In the mall today, I went in a sporting goods store restroom - EVERY toilet was an unflushed disaster area!

I feel sick just thinking about it.

 

[powellrj]

I agree, its gross, but I know DD sometimes forgets to flush because most of the public restrooms she uses including at school are self flush. I think sometimes people just assume if will flush.

 

[robinb]

Because they don't want to touch the handle with their hands. The same hands they will scrub with soap and water.

I think people who leave toilets unflushed are pigs.

 

[Tigger113]

Tell me about it! It is sickning to go in and have to see that. It only takes a second to flush!

 

[Tigger113]

I think people who leave toilets unflushed are pigs.

I have to agree.

 

[NewJersey]

Reason #234435 I prefer to be a man. No need to worry about finding unflushed toilets, since 99% of the time my needs will be fulfilled by a urinal when I'm in public.

 

[NAB]

I agree very gross but have been in some that don't flush....or have no water pressure. Nothing worse then walking into one like that though. It is right up there with peeing on the seats and not washing their hands before they leave.

 

[Papa Deuce]

my skin crawls at the thought.... one of the few things that really freak me out is unflushed toilets.

 

[va32h]

How can I describe this without getting too gross...

I have used a restroom where I flushed, but everything did not go down. Had I not happen to look behind me and see that this had happened, I would not have known to flush again.

If it happened in every toilet in the same facility, I would wonder if they have those low-flow toilets or have toilets that simply do not flush well enough.

 

[HaleyB]

My daughter is afraid to flush public restroom toliets.
Of course she is 8 and I know this, so I just always flush it for her...

But if her phobia follows her into adulthood I may have trouble doing that.

 

[grinningghost]

I can understand people don't want to touch the flush handle - but use you're stinkin' foot then!

And I don't buy that people think they'll automatically flush. I don't even open the stall door until I see the thing flush. Don't want the next person to think I'm an oinker.

And if it IS an automatic flush, where you need to "trip the light fantastic" so to speak - then do the potty dance and trip the darned thing!

 

[robinb]

A little four-one-one to the non-flushers and the foot-flushers out there ... I touch the hande on the toilet and then I touch the handle on the door. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa! Oh, I bet you open the door with TP. Darn .

 

[grinningghost]

A little four-one-one to the non-flushers and the foot-flushers out there ... I touch the hande on the toilet and then I touch the handle on the door. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa! Oh, I bet you open the door with TP. Darn .

You devil woman!

 

[Nancy]

A little four-one-one to the non-flushers and the foot-flushers out there ... I touch the hande on the toilet and then I touch the handle on the door. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa! Oh, I bet you open the door with TP. Darn .

Why you rebel you! Let you in on a secret...me too! (and I don't hover either!)

What I haven't figured out is how a person can get out of a auto flush toilet without it flushing, it usually flushes like 2 or 3 times before I can get out of the stall.

 

[grinningghost]

Why you rebel you! Let you in on a secret...me too! (and I don't hover either!)

What I haven't figured out is how a person can get out of a auto flush toilet without it flushing, it usually flushes like 2 or 3 times before I can get out of the stall.

Yes! And sometimes, it scares me!

 

[U2_rocks]

A little four-one-one to the non-flushers and the foot-flushers out there ... I touch the hande on the toilet and then I touch the handle on the door. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa! Oh, I bet you open the door with TP. Darn .

Bwaaa haaa haaa ... me too!!!

I don't get the problem ...... that's what soap and water is for.

BTW, some toilets just don't flush, especially if someone's just used it before you and it hasn't filled up yet. Others just give up the ghost after a while and need to be serviced in some way. Unflushed toilets aren't necessarily deliberate.

 

[Jeanny]

A little four-one-one to the non-flushers and the foot-flushers out there ... I touch the hande on the toilet and then I touch the handle on the door. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa! Oh, I bet you open the door with TP. Darn .

actually, yeah, sometimes I am a foot flusher, and yeah, sometimes I do use a piece of TP to open the door... then I use a paper towel to open the door when I'm leaving.

one of my professors did a community health experiment one year and took "samples" of the toilet seats, door handles, (both stall and entrance/exit doors), our locker room, some football helmets, the public telephone, my keyboard, my phone, etc, etc, etc.

He then "grew" the specimens in the biology lab and showed the kids exactly how the germs were spread!!! My phone & keyboard were clean, but never, ever use the public phone in our lobby!!!!!!

 

[CJRN]

foot flusher here

I also open the main door while holding the paper towel after I just washed my hands.

By the way, for the people that have a phobia of the flush, don't EVER go on a cruise ship....you'd think you are going to be flushed out to sea