A poll for the women

[Moxiechick]

I use my hand to flush. I've got to touch the handle of the door to get out of the stall anyway. I wash my hands after, being careful not to turn off the faucet with my fingers or palm, and I don't touch the handle of the exit with my hand either.

Now, for all the foot flushers- When I use my hand and then wash it, the germs are gone. When you flush with your foot, those germs are now on your shoe, being carried around all over and spreading everywhere you walk.... the floors of the stores where your baby has dropped their pacifier; the floors of your daycare where your children crawl; your very home! Now there's something to chew on!

 

[SourRoses]

But I would never put my babys paci back in their mouth after it dropped on the ground.... and I switch from my shoes to my inside flip flops when I get home

Have you ever looked at the ground in public places? Yuck!

 

[emvickrey]

I flush with my hand. Although those that flush with their foot put more germs on the handle than a hand would I wash my hands anyway. I normally use the paper towel to open the door with for those that don't wash their hands after touching the handle that has probably been flushed with a nasty shoe.

And on the other issue. Hovering isn't possible for me unless I hole myself up by putting my hands on the toilet then there is the jproblem of cleaning up afterwards. I need at least a hand then i'm gonna land on the seat anyway. If there are covers available I use them. I just hate having to clean up a toilet seat from somebody that hovered and missed and didn't have the curtesy of cleaning up after themselves. Then I have to take the precious time of lining it with toilet paper for sure. By then it's nearly too late to bother.

I have seen ladies actually use papertowl to open the stall door, turn on and off the water from washing their hands then get more paper to dry them, get more to open the door and use their foot to get thru the door when it tries to close on them. Don't they realize that somebody has to clean up all those dirty shoe marks all over everything and clean up all that paper not to mention the cost to the store then the cost to us to make up for all that paper they waste and the extra cleaning that has to be done.
CONSERVE! CONSERVE! CONSERVE!

 

[emvickrey]

Quote:
When you walk around your yard where maybe your birds wander and poop and wild birds leave droppings and other animals use the potty. Then you get that on your shoes. You get in your car with your shoes on then get out and walk around running errands with those shoes spreading what ever germs are on your shoes.

Really, what difference does it make? When I was a kid we played in the mud, drank out of the water hose, played outside in winter, ate snow (the white stuff) and i'm still here and I hardly ever get sick. Probably because i've been exposed to the germs instead of a sterile lifestyle.

I wear my rubber boots when I clean the chicken pens and most of the time when I collect eggs but not always. I've had chicken poop on me more times than I can count from cleaning or just getting pooped on. I've even tripped and fell with a chicken in my hands in the spot where I had raked up a pile of soiled wood shavings. I'm still here and well. I shower when I've been cleaning pens, I wash my hands everytime I handle the birds before I do other things. I'm healthy, my birds are healthy, my family is healthy. Well, the ailments are due to age not sickness anyway.

We may catch a cold once a year if that. The stomach flu every 3 or 4 years or so. When ever we are around the grandkids when they have it anyway.

I think too many people worry way too much about germs. The world is full of them and all the antibiotics and sanitizers are making the germs develop resistance to them and it causes the bigger and more dangerous sickneses that are harder to get well from. Then more antibiotics are developed to kill off those illnesses and more sanitizers are used to prevent those germs and more germs morph into something resistant to those things and so on and so on.

This isn't aimed at you moxiechick. I'm just voicing my opinion.

 

[magicpigeon]

I use a piece of toilet paper to flush the toilet then bin the paper...

 

[Moxiechick]

Quote:
When you walk around your yard where maybe your birds wander and poop and wild birds leave droppings and other animals use the potty. Then you get that on your shoes. You get in your car with your shoes on then get out and walk around running errands with those shoes spreading what ever germs are on your shoes.

Really, what difference does it make? When I was a kid we played in the mud, drank out of the water hose, played outside in winter, ate snow (the white stuff) and i'm still here and I hardly ever get sick. Probably because i've been exposed to the germs instead of a sterile lifestyle.

I wear my rubber boots when I clean the chicken pens and most of the time when I collect eggs but not always. I've had chicken poop on me more times than I can count from cleaning or just getting pooped on. I've even tripped and fell with a chicken in my hands in the spot where I had raked up a pile of soiled wood shavings. I'm still here and well. I shower when I've been cleaning pens, I wash my hands everytime I handle the birds before I do other things. I'm healthy, my birds are healthy, my family is healthy. Well, the ailments are due to age not sickness anyway.

We may catch a cold once a year if that. The stomach flu every 3 or 4 years or so. When ever we are around the grandkids when they have it anyway.

I think too many people worry way too much about germs. The world is full of them and all the antibiotics and sanitizers are making the germs develop resistance to them and it causes the bigger and more dangerous sickneses that are harder to get well from. Then more antibiotics are developed to kill off those illnesses and more sanitizers are used to prevent those germs and more germs morph into something resistant to those things and so on and so on.

This isn't aimed at you moxiechick. I'm just voicing my opinion.

Well now, you're talking about animal germs, which are a lot less icky than people germs. I agree with everything you say regarding overuse of hand sanitizers, and not worrying too much about every little germ. Except people germs. I don't know where they've been and what they've been doing. Humans can be pretty gross.

 

[TigerLilly]

I should have voted OTHER, because it really depends...if it's a regular commode with a normal height handle, I use my foot. If the handle is higher than normal, I use my hand & wash them after...
More info than you really needed, eh?

 

[magicpigeon]

I voted "hand" ... though I suppose Other would have fitted better too, right?

 

[emvickrey]

Quote:
When you walk around your yard where maybe your birds wander and poop and wild birds leave droppings and other animals use the potty. Then you get that on your shoes. You get in your car with your shoes on then get out and walk around running errands with those shoes spreading what ever germs are on your shoes.

Really, what difference does it make? When I was a kid we played in the mud, drank out of the water hose, played outside in winter, ate snow (the white stuff) and i'm still here and I hardly ever get sick. Probably because i've been exposed to the germs instead of a sterile lifestyle.

I wear my rubber boots when I clean the chicken pens and most of the time when I collect eggs but not always. I've had chicken poop on me more times than I can count from cleaning or just getting pooped on. I've even tripped and fell with a chicken in my hands in the spot where I had raked up a pile of soiled wood shavings. I'm still here and well. I shower when I've been cleaning pens, I wash my hands everytime I handle the birds before I do other things. I'm healthy, my birds are healthy, my family is healthy. Well, the ailments are due to age not sickness anyway.

We may catch a cold once a year if that. The stomach flu every 3 or 4 years or so. When ever we are around the grandkids when they have it anyway.

I think too many people worry way too much about germs. The world is full of them and all the antibiotics and sanitizers are making the germs develop resistance to them and it causes the bigger and more dangerous sickneses that are harder to get well from. Then more antibiotics are developed to kill off those illnesses and more sanitizers are used to prevent those germs and more germs morph into something resistant to those things and so on and so on.

This isn't aimed at you moxiechick. I'm just voicing my opinion.

Well now, you're talking about animal germs, which are a lot less icky than people germs. I agree with everything you say regarding overuse of hand sanitizers, and not worrying too much about every little germ. Except people germs. I don't know where they've been and what they've been doing. Humans can be pretty gross.

Actually "children" are the gross ones. with those snotty noses getting wiped on their shirt collars and sleves or just plain arm. They pick their noses and wipe it on anything near including you. They sneeze right in your face and have snot running down their mouth.

They puke anywhere. If they feel like they're going to puke they just do it anywhere instead of heading to the toilet or a garbage can. Instead we have to throw out our furniture, rip up the carpet or scrub the floors.

I would rather wade in a river of chicken poop than be around a sick kid. I do what I had to when mine was a child and I tend to my grandchildren but my preferences are the animals. Not because there aren't many illnesses that we can catch from them it's just they don't know any better. And on the subject of puking. Why is it that when we use the toilet it's such a big deal about catching germs but where is the first place we go when we vomit? Where is your face located, and how are you holding yourself up to avoid your face ending up in the vomit filled toilet? I would much rather find a blastic waste basket than use the toilet for that but isn't that the place that is known for that? Like the term, hugging the golden throan (sp?) or porcelain throan?

So why make such a huge deal about using the toilet. A perfectly natural human function. And it has to be flushed, right? No on wants to use one that isn't! If you was in a public place and had to vomit and the only open toilet to do it in was one that wasn't flushed. What would you do? I would find the waste basket. Sorry cleaning lady but i'm not putting my face in a toilet with somebody elses "stuff" left there.

I know, off subject. Just somethng to think about.

 

[Moxiechick]

Quote:

Well now, you're talking about animal germs, which are a lot less icky than people germs. I agree with everything you say regarding overuse of hand sanitizers, and not worrying too much about every little germ. Except people germs. I don't know where they've been and what they've been doing. Humans can be pretty gross.

Actually "children" are the gross ones. with those snotty noses getting wiped on their shirt collars and sleves or just plain arm. They pick their noses and wipe it on anything near including you. They sneeze right in your face and have snot running down their mouth.

They puke anywhere. If they feel like they're going to puke they just do it anywhere instead of heading to the toilet or a garbage can. Instead we have to throw out our furniture, rip up the carpet or scrub the floors.

I would rather wade in a river of chicken poop than be around a sick kid. I do what I had to when mine was a child and I tend to my grandchildren but my preferences are the animals. Not because there aren't many illnesses that we can catch from them it's just they don't know any better. And on the subject of puking. Why is it that when we use the toilet it's such a big deal about catching germs but where is the first place we go when we vomit? Where is your face located, and how are you holding yourself up to avoid your face ending up in the vomit filled toilet? I would much rather find a blastic waste basket than use the toilet for that but isn't that the place that is known for that? Like the term, hugging the golden throan (sp?) or porcelain throan?

So why make such a huge deal about using the toilet. A perfectly natural human function. And it has to be flushed, right? No on wants to use one that isn't! If you was in a public place and had to vomit and the only open toilet to do it in was one that wasn't flushed. What would you do? I would find the waste basket. Sorry cleaning lady but i'm not putting my face in a toilet with somebody elses "stuff" left there.

I know, off subject. Just somethng to think about.

I like the way you think!