A poll for the women

[3goodeggs]

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Nooooooooo!
so...cough, cough... I think I'll just stay home....forever.

 

[featherfinder]

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I dont know about you but here in florida we have some toilets that are like super flushers!!! Even if you sit properly and flush with your hand when the water starts going down the toilet flushes it so hard that it spits back out! It gets everywhere including the seat and you if you do not stand back far enough. You have to pull your pants up and be ready to evacuate before you even think about flushing!

 

[chicmom]

My answer is BOTH because at home I flush with my hand, but if I'm in a public restroom, and it looks dirty, i will step on the flusher with my foot.

 

[ChickInDelight]

I try never to touch things with my hands that others have touched.

If you want to send me in orbit, touch my computer keyboard. If you want to hear me SCREAM, poke a finger into my screen.

yeah - I'm a germaphobe. I work in a cube like an animal in a cage with all the surfaces sanitized.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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I dont know about you but here in florida we have some toilets that are like super flushers!!! Even if you sit properly and flush with your hand when the water starts going down the toilet flushes it so hard that it spits back out! It gets everywhere including the seat and you if you do not stand back far enough. You have to pull your pants up and be ready to evacuate before you even think about flushing!

If it's yellow on the seat, it's pee. Granted the person is dehydrated, but it's pee.

Either way, I wipe the seat down before I use it and sit my butt on the seat. I also teach my kids to do the same, boys and girls. Makes my bathrooms MUCH cleaner.

 

[gritsar]

From reading all the responses it appears we have become a bunch of germaphobes. I guess that's alright, whatever floats your boat.

I try not to get all phobic about things and just wash my hands before handling our food and after handling something nasty/or public. Rarely get sick with viral or bacterial infections.

I have seen more than a few parents that were all freaky about keeping their kids hands, toys and other kid paraphernalia clean. Those kids grew up to have the worst allergies. The immune system has a job to do and it needs to be introduced to germs to do its job.

Plus, as someone already pointed out, few germs can survive for long on toilet seats, flush handles, etc.

Having said all that, I think a good handwashing after using the restroom is enough.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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But the bolded part - I KNOW most things can't survive on the seat. But I'm just really squicked out by sitting in another person's pee. Call it a character flaw if you will, but I'm wiping the seat first.

 

[emvickrey]

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I took my grandsons to the park last year and one had opened a scab and it had bled just a tiny but but enough to get a drop of blood on the slide. There where some other kids that came up just as it happened and they saw that smudge and just freaked. They where not getting on the slide because there was blood on it and they would catch something that would kill them.

Now Geez O Petes give it a rest. I went to the fountain and got a handful of water and ran it over the smudge. They where satisfied with that. Now if he had sneezed a big bugar on the slide I could have understood it but give me a break. It was a very small smudge. My grandson was so embarrassed about it they made such a big deal out of it as if the whole slide was contaminated with coodies.

 

[toochicky]

ha, good question. I never touch the handle of a toilet..especialy public toilets. I use my foot.

In fact, I was just complaining to my fiance the other day, that I can go into some of the places around where I live they have auto-flush toilets, and auto water & handsoap... but not auto-doors. So, you still have to use your hand to pull open the door to the bathroom. Bah!

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Read the other comments, and yeah.. I guess you could call if being a germophobe. However, I think once you have worked in the retail and food industry and seen what stuff people do in bathrooms.. it scars you for life!!! Like a dressing room that has been covered with feces.. or a bathroom that has blood on the walls from a used feminine product being smeared around.

Sorry..but bathrooms are like toxic zones of filth. Everywhere else, I am A-Okay! I love dirt, and being outdoors, etc.

 

[Illia]

I think the next question is - What is "other" ?

I mean, if I flush with my hand, that still includes wearing a glove, or covering the knob with a tissue or something, but. . .


What is the other option?