An ode(rant).
An ode(rant) to those of you that insist upon flushing public toilet handles with your feet.
You go into a stall, lock yourself in, do your business and then turn to leave. You stop and wonder "Oh my…that toilet handle must be DIRTY. I can’t touch it with my hand! I better use my foot…" And then bam you’re kicking the toilet handle with the bottom of your shoe. But then to turn around and open the stall door with your hand…where do you think those alleged germs that were on the toilet handle went to next? Or do they just avoid this particular handle? Maybe you crawl under the locked door. Or maybe every time you grab a piece of TP from the roll and open it that way. You’re going to wash your hands in about 5 seconds anyway, aren’t you? So what’s the difference? I often think about the dog poop, gum, garbage and who knows what else is all over the bottom of someones shoe that is probably all over the toilet handle. And that grosses me out more than anything else. Ick.
Oh, ladies that squat and pee drive me up the wall too because you are making things worse than just sitting on the damn seat to begin with…since you freaking PEE all over the toilet because you can’t aim! Ugh. One night I had to pee SO bad. SO BAD. I was on the verge of peeing my pants(I must confess to a bladder problem, when I have to go I have to go NOW.) and had no time to inspect the toilet seat before I sat down or to grab a paper liner and guess what happened to me the nanosecond I sat down… I almost slid off the seat because someone had PEED all over it. GROSS GROSS GROSS. So before you "protect" yourself think about what you are about to be doing to others by being a nimrod. Things weren’t always as sanitary as they are today and guess what…we made it. Otherwise you and I wouldn’t be here today.
Thank you.
This ode(rant) brought to you by your friendly neighborhood germaphobic Amelia. If I can suck it up and be normal in a public bathroom…so can you.
Oh, by the way… I can’t sleep. 😀
I sit my happy behind on toilets and I touch the handle with my hand. 🙂 I’m proud. You know why? Because I know the probability of more germs being on the phones in the office being greater than those on the toilet is very possible. The bathrooms are cleaned once a day. They phones usually have dust on them!
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ugh, the shoe thing grosses me out. I am a hoverer though. But I also clean up if I miss.
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i’m not a hoverer. i don’t have the time to worry about hovering over a toilet seat that is probably cleaner than the money i’m touching. if i find it questionable at all (pee is sanitary by the way) i put t-p on the toilet seat. i always found it funny that people would kick the toilet handle but then would open the door not only to get out of the stall, but to get out of the bathroom itself.those people who do not wash their hands at all, have to get out somehow. oh yeah, by touching the door.
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Random: The only time I ever use my foot to flush the toilet is when I’m doing other people a service by flushing the remains that the previous user FORGOT to flush. The door in this case is open. 😉
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I’m sorry..I’m a foot-er 🙁 AND a squatter. BUT. I do clean up if I sprinkle when I tinkle! lol.
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I commented this at Myspace. But! I shall now use toilet paper for flushing. Thank you.
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Wooo!! I’m not afraid of germs. Isn’t that how we build immunity?
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haha, pee-butt sucks.
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Oh, I’m a footer, but I don’t open the door using my bare hand either. I use a piece of toilet paper to open the door that I flush down or throw out depending on how I’m feeling that day. I’m sorry, but I can’t trust others to be germ-conscious, so I have to do what I have to do even if that means making Mia mad 🙂
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excellent point on the toilet handle thing
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We have those autoflush toilets at work. The only time I squat is when I pee out in the woods. But I don’t pee out in the woods so much anymore. Not since I fell down and had to get 9 stitches. But I was so drunk that I think the alcohol killed everything that lingered when I fell. Well- that and the tetanus shot. 😉
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Hahaha, so true. Apparently there are more germs on a cellphone than there are on a public toilet seat anyway. But yes, I hate grotty toilets. I think the worst were the high school ones… Especially with my non-existent bladder.
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i sit on the toilets. woo! but i do flush wiht my foot. only because i knwo others flush with their feet. door handles are fune cause those are just hand germs… but toilet handles… i knwo other peopels feet have been there, so i use mine too. what can ya say..
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hehe 🙂
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I get that shìt happening all the time at work..and who has to clean up after those nasty piss on the seat people? ME! UGH
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I’m a PROUD footer and a hoverer if a sani-seat is not available. Luckily, the bathrooms at work have sani-seats, which I appreciate. Being 6 months pregnant and trying to hover when you feel like niagra falls is about to bust loose from your bladder is NOT easy.
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my friend works with a lady that pees all over the place. they eventually had to confront her because she would pee on all the seats and floor and not clean up after herself. now instead of cleaning up she was her own stall and no one else uses it. i still can’t believe the nerve of this lady!
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