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This is so unbelievably close to being a single image I’m confused as to why they bothered separating it into two panels
Aaahhh finally, so I’m not the only person wondering about this at just about every friggin bathroom visit…
Easy. You take one of those paper towels and keep it between you and the handle to open the door. Then you hold the door open with your foot while you try to toss the paper towel.
Yeah, bacteria take about a second or so to go through that if there is any moisture
Recently saw a door with a little tab at the bottom to put your foot on and open it that way, surprisingly functional.
I absolutely love those things. I don’t understand why they aren’t everywhere. I’ve seen maybe half a dozen in my lifetime
They’re not exactly wheelchair accessible so most modern and publicly accessible places would rather install an entrance corridor or a push button door.
But yeah, no reason not to add them to places like warehouses and airports.
I’ve only seen this in a few places - and of the places most had them installed in the most awkward/ineffective way.
Really? They’re everywhere where I live.
My toilet is cleaner than 99% of my ancestors cooking tools.
For a hundred thousand years your ancestors people’s population never broke a million either.
Nah, im part baboon, only been around for a few hundred years tops.
Thanks king kong!
*Donkey Kong
Trick question. That door doesn’t work. Someone installed it like an idiot.
I don’t get it bro, the hinges, door closer and handle all are formatted properly to open inward.
Educated your heathen friend here.
the door closer on the top will bind up on itself in that position.
Pisses off, especially considering that like 70% of men don’t wash their hands. I’ve become an expert in using my elbow.
Open the door with a paper towel because men are fucking gross.
Tell me you’ve never seen how fucking nasty women’s restrooms are in comparison…
Oh noo toilet seats are too gross! I must hang from the ceiling and rain down piss from 2 meters above. Oh oops I got blood on the seat. I’m sure the next occupant will be happy to clean it up with 1 ply toilet paper!
That’s what I do all the time. Just use the towel to open it up.
Imma be real unless you’re full on immune compromised it’s not that serious
Spreading germs can get other people sick. Washing hands is not hard.
I always open doors with my hands (I know, weirdo right?) and very rarely get sick. People are being overly dramatic.
Its not about getting sick. It’s about getting filth on your just cleaned hands.
If you can’t see it and it doesn’t get you sick it’s honestly not an issue beyond being a overly conscious about germs.
If it doesn’t get me sick, why care?
Let me guess you also refused to wear a mask during COVID. Sometimes stuff isn’t about you.
Nope, I proudly used a mask, take your assumptions somewhere else.
Y’all worry way, way too much about this stuff.
It’s c/humor, it’s not that deep.
That door closer is installed on the wrong side of the door if its a pull, it’s actually a push.
Closers can work from either side, depending on the model.
You can see the hinges though, so it is a pull
You are correct, perhaps the door is entirely nonfunctional.
Use a paper towel to open the door and toss it into the next garbage you see outside the bathroom. Or toss it into the trash as you leave.
This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.
I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.
I just use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands
…just use your tongue to pull the door open, that way you can keep your hands freshly-cleaned…
Or just simply lick the hand clean after you’ve opened the door.
There are a good reasons for this:
Inward opening doors pull air into the bathroom area and both contain the smells and germs, (the opposite is true for outward opening doors) but also bring additional fresh air in.
Doors that open outwards into hallways (where public access toilets are most commonly found) is a huge hazard to people passing the door.Not to mention foot pulls and automatic door openers are becoming more common so you dont have to touch the handle as often.
Lots of newer public toilets (at least in australia) are designed with an s-bend entrance to eliminate doors completely (however require constant exhaust).
Toilets in commercial buildings often have ante-chambers where doors open both ways into the chamber so you have to touch a handle regardless of direction of travel. (Common in offices and hospitals)Huh never considered this, thanks
Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald’s, where it’s constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that’s when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.
That’s the best version. People leave with washed hands so hands remain clean and it’s possible to enter by pushing with a foot.
The other way requires using the door handle while entering. That can contaminate the hand that is going to touch or get close to the private parts. It’s better to have that hand as clean as possible.
Hard disagree.
- Your hands are filthy regardless, you’re on your way IN to the bathroom so you very likely haven’t washed your hands but you’ve touched a LOT of things. Phones, keyboards, door handles, banisters etc. Pulling one more door open is not adding any meaningful contamination. If you are that concerned about one door handle, you should be VERY concerned about the state your hand is already in and thus would need to wash your hands before using the other facilities anyway.
- You’re being overly paranoid. Your junk is not going to explode because it interacted with real world pathogens.
Clean, dry and uncut hands create a formidable barrier to pathogen transmission. And the most dangerous pathogens tend not to live long outside a living body.
Also, sebum is a useful thing.
So wait for a while after washing hands, before touching dirty stuff.[1]I tend to rub my oily nose/head with my fingers, right before doing something that I know would require me to wash my hands later. Makes cleaning with a soap much easier.
Also, has it happened to you sometimes, that even if you try your best to wipe your hands after washing, they tend to easily stick dirt for a while, until they become just a little bit oily (because the palm doesn’t accumulate enough oil for one to casually notice).
of course that can’t be done in public restrooms, but considering that people are always coughing enough for the exhaust fans to be rendered inadequate, the exit door is hardly a big deal ↩︎
So better not wash hands, especially if one had to touch a dirty door?
So better not wash hands, especially if one had to touch a dirty door?
No. My point was that dry, unopened human skin makes pathogen transmission by touch nothing to worry about.
The way people behave in airport bathrooms bothers me. The bathroom gets cleaned 5 times a day and people still use a mountain of tp on the seat and flush the toilet with their foot like a bunch of homo zombies with norovirus just rode the handle.
But if you must do the above, in any restroom with soap, wash your hands afterwards. You’d want your doctor to.
that bothers you? Consider yourself lucky if you’ve never heard/seen someone disgustingly snorting their snot into the sinks, or washing their feet in it.
I’m unlucky :\
Many places put these on the bottom of the door for this very reason. Granted they only help people able to use them.
Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.
Is this not common elsewhere?
In facilities that have lots of room, yes (malls, schools, etc). Workplaces generally less inclined to devote that much space to it.
Yeah we have that in Europe on highway stops and other places with high traffic of people like stadiums, big concert venues etc.
My workplace does this, there’s still a door but it’s always open
That’s what most airports, schools, and such seem to have in my experience. (U.S.)
Which makes it REALLY hard to vape in there
I wish. I’m surprised we haven’t brought back pay toilets in the US.
I have been joking with my roommate lately that we’re probably only a decade or so out from landlords putting coin-op toilets in apartments. What a capitalist dystopia it’ll be.
Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.
I’ve hyperextended my knee using one. Good times. Hyperextension used to be a “oh that sucked” but as I get older they’re more and more a "oh shit is this the time it fails on me? " territory.
Nothing like losing your balance or getting your foot jammed when someone slams the door open from the other side. I prefer the wheelchair buttons
Best I can do is a Palantir face recognition device that verify your identity before allowing you out of the bathroom
If you make sure it doesn’t let you out unless you wash your hands, I’m all for it.
IDGI
You clean your hands but then you have to touch a probably dirty handle to open the door.
Is this the sort of thing people worry about?
Yes? Like brushing your teeth? Or showering?
Use the paper
People don’t know they can hang on to the paper towel to open the door, then Kobe that shit on the way out?
A lot of places put the waste basket by the door for this very reason.
I worked security in pubs, nightclubs and licenced venues for a decade and to this day, I do not wash my hands in public bathrooms. I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
My wife thinks its gross but Ive seen shit that cannot be unseen.
Why does any of that lead to “I don’t wash my hands”? In what scenario is washing your hands the dirtier option? Unless somebody took a shit in the soap dispenser, your hands will be cleaner after cleaning them.
Please clean your hands.
Maybe their bathroom has a manual handle to turn to get the water to start and stop.
Then use the same paper towel they use to open the door to shut of the faucet.
You need to use the paper towel to turn on the faucet, then wash your hands and turn it off with the towel again.
A lot of bathrooms don’t even have paper towels, so OP possibly is at a bathroom where there’s a manual faucet and no paper towels.
I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
They said there are towels but they don’t wash their hands.
