Unless its an automatic flush, do you use your foot to flush the toilet?

[Hoodie]

Never! If I tried that I'd be flat on my butt on the bathroom floor. I have a vision of crashing through the stall door, landing flat on my back and my shoe flipping off and landing in the toilet. I'd probably crack my head open and then the paramedics would have to come in and flush it for me.

No thanks - I'll just keep washing my hands after.

 

[mvazul]

me too....Of course I also sleep on hotel sheets, comforter and all, walk barefoot on the floors, actually touch a hotel remote too and even hold on to the handle of a shopping cart!

All of the above would cause for than a few peoples heads to explode on here.

and btw....I'm never sick either.

Same here. Funny how that happens, huh?!

 

[luvmy3]

Me either. But it seems the germophobes are always sick.

Not me

 

[tazdev3225]

I only use my foot in bathrooms on the turnpike. I don't know why but for some reason those bathrooms gross me out. Maybe it's the high volume of people through them. I wash my hands, use a bare hand to open the door and if I think about it at some point after this I will use a hand sanitizer. Taking food or drink into any bathroom, even my own is a little weird. I also do not talk to anyone on the phone in there. I don't want to hear anyone doing their business and vice versa. I like a little privacy.

 

[robinb]

I'm another one who likes to live dangerously. I sit on the seat, flush with my hand. Then I wash my hands with soap and use my bare hand to exit the restroom if I have to open a door.

Me too! I also use my bare hand to advance the towel *after* I have washed my hands. Given that people put their germy hands on it before washing that's really dangerous!

 

[Disney Doll]

I never flush a toilet with my foot. I am too afraid I'd lose my balance and fall over and end up lying on the dirty bathroom floor. If it is a particularly grungy toilet (which I try not to use but sometimes when ya gotta go....) I will use some toilet tissue to grab the handle, flush and then toss it quickly into the toilet as it is flushing.

In general, I flush the toilet and go out and wash my hands. I am a healthy person, so I am pretty confidentof my ability to fight off the "average" germs. Obviously, if I had some sort of immunocompromised condition, I might think differently.

But I'm a nurse. I can't think there's too many things in a public restroom that haven't been spewed at me at some point at work!

 

[Heather1101]

Yes, use foot to flush the toilet... and elbow to advance the paper towels... and then the same paper towel to open the restroom door.

Ditto! DH and both kids do this in public restrooms, as well. It is just the way DH and I have always done it and the kids just followed our examples..lol!

*edited to add that I am not a germaphobe...this is just how I handle public restrooms and always have. None of us are ever sick with the exception of DH who has a compromised immune system, but he gets things like ulcers on his corneas, thrush, shingles, etc and not flus or colds.

I have a friend that washed her kids toys in bleach and mopped the floors in bleach every other day and even every day sometimes...she has the sickest children I have ever seen...they have to get the strongest antibiotic every time they go to the Dr. because nothing else works anymore...they have used it so much they have built up a resistance to it and even the strongest one doesn't work very well anymore.

 

[MomofKatie]

I never use my foot to flush a public toilet. I don't think that is very considerate for the next person, and I think it's just plain dumb. Sit on the toilet (so you don't hover and make a mess for someone else to clean up!), flush with your hand, use warm water and soap to wash your hands before exiting the restroom. Common sense. Some don't have it and are just too paranoid in using a public bathroom.

ITA!!!

 

[PatsMom]

me too....Of course I also sleep on hotel sheets, comforter and all, walk barefoot on the floors, actually touch a hotel remote too and even hold on to the handle of a shopping cart!

All of the above would cause more than a few peoples heads to explode on here.

and btw....I'm never sick either.

Must be part of the whole living dangerously thing but my family also sleeps on the sheets, uses the comforter, and walks on the floor. My husband and daughter would have withdrawal symptoms if they spend a day without a remote in their hand at some point!

We too are never sick. And both DH and I have conditions which should pre-dispose us to picking up every bug that comes along. Must be all the exposure we get.

 

[mishasmom]

I use my foot because it keeps my face farther away from all the disgusting stuff that comes flying out of the toilet when you flush. Supposedly all kinds of minute particles fly out with those powerful flushes.

 

[Luv2Scrap]

I use my foot because it keeps my face farther away from all the disgusting stuff that comes flying out of the toilet when you flush. Supposedly all kinds of minute particles fly out with those powerful flushes.

OMG, sometimes they’re not all that minute! I know of a few public toilets that if I am forced to use them, I have to literally run out of the stall as it starts to flush, because I know it’s going to spew big droplets of toilet water (and whatever else…) all the way over to the stall door!

 

[suzannen]

I used to use my foot, until it was pointed out to me by a friend who works at the CDC, that unless I "washing" my foot(shoe) after each bathroom use, I was actually continuing to carry around those "disgusting" germs with me as I walked and eventually taking them into my house and onto my carpet. Since I began to envision that, it grossed me out even more, so I went back to basics - using my hands to flush and then washing them carefully with soap and water. And, after I wash my hands, I do use a paper towel to open the door to leave the restroom.

 

[LoraJ]

I always use my hand to flush and have never had toilet water splashed in my face. I never even knew people used their feet until I read about it on the DIS. I think that it is incredibly disgusting!

 

[Darsa]

I never even knew people used their feet until I read about it on the DIS. I think that it is incredibly disgusting!

I have to agree; I didn't know people did this, and now I'm kinda grossed out that I put my hand where some people put the bottom of their foot that's walked all over God-knows-where, including the bathroom floor!

Oh, and from earlier, I'm pretty sure people aren't saying that those who foot flush don't wash their hands; I know in MY case, I was saying "aren't you going to wash your hands anyway" because, well, if you are it's going to clean up all those narsty buggies on your hand from flushing... won't it??

 

[SaraJayne]

I always use my hand to flush and have never had toilet water splashed in my face. I never even knew people used their feet until I read about it on the DIS. I think that it is incredibly disgusting!

Ditto

But using your hand to flush and then having nothing happen isn't quite as dramatic, is it?

 

[sbell111]

I only use my foot to flush if I'm eating a sandwich that takes two hands, or a really big piece of pizza or if I have food in one hand and a drink in the other. Basically, if one hand is free, I'll generally use it to flush.

 

[Tiggernut_jadie]

I guess I am a rebel. I sit straight on the seat, use my hand to flush, was my hands and use my bare hand to open the door.

Not a rebel just not a paranoid germaphobe!!! I'm with you on this one!

I always use a piece of toilet tissue; I don't want to make the handle any grosser by flushing it with my dirty shoe.

Can I thank you on behalf of me and my dodgy hip?! Come on you foot flushers think about people who CAN'T foot flush even if they wanted too. There is no way physically I can stand on one foot and flush with the other....so please follow this above posters example and use some paper rather than your disgusting filthy shoe!

I always use my hand to flush and have never had toilet water splashed in my face. I never even knew people used their feet until I read about it on the DIS. I think that it is incredibly disgusting!

It IS disgusting - here in the UK the flush is normally too high to foot flush anyway (Yay! ) so the first time I saw someone do this in WDW I looked like this......

 

[luvmy3]

I always use my hand to flush and have never had toilet water splashed in my face. I never even knew people used their feet until I read about it on the DIS. I think that it is incredibly disgusting!

And we think using your hand is incredibly disgusting Its funny I have seen a few people say that they have never heard of anyone using their feet, but I always thought it was pretty common practice. In conversations I have had with others, I don't find anyone that uses their hand, or at least that admits it until I read it on the DIS. Of course it could be that I just don't have these types of conversations with every stranger that walks by, if so I'm sure I'd get some different answers.

 

[luvmy3]

Not a rebel just not a paranoid germaphobe!!! I'm with you on this one!



Can I thank you on behalf of me and my dodgy hip?! Come on you foot flushers think about people who CAN'T foot flush even if they wanted too. There is no way physically I can stand on one foot and flush with the other....so please follow this above posters example and use some paper rather than your disgusting filthy shoe!



It IS disgusting - here in the UK the flush is normally too high to foot flush anyway (Yay! ) so the first time I saw someone do this in WDW I looked like this......

Do you not wash your hands after you are finished

 

[LoraJ]

And we think using your hand is incredibly disgusting Its funny I have seen a few people say that they have never heard of anyone using their feet, but I always thought it was pretty common practice. In conversations I have had with others, I don't find anyone that uses their hand, or at least that admits it until I read it on the DIS. Of course it could be that I just don't have these types of conversations with every stranger that walks by, if so I'm sure I'd get some different answers.

My hand would only be disgusting because your dirty feet have been on the flusher. Then I use that hand on the door handle, do you guys use your feet for that as well?