Go to your favorite mall, movie theatre, bar, wherever. When you're in the can, look around. More often than not, someone will finish taking a leak or a poop, and head straight for the door.
I mean really. If I wanted to touch these peoples' genitalia, I would ask them.
Support the hand-washing movement! Give this person a stink palm, tell their girlfriend or boyfriend how revolting their significant other's hygene is, do something!
Stand up for your right to not come into contact with leftover excrement!
Most urinals anymore, at least in my neck of the woods, are automatic. Thusly, the only thing that I touch when using the restroom (unless I have an accident) have been "secured", if you will, in sterile white cotton all day, since I showered this morning. So what's the point, hmmm?
Sarcasmo: amen!
Those of you who don't wash, shame on you. I don't care what your balls have been encased in. Human flesh is where germs breed. Even if you shower every morning.
Those of you who use your sleeves for the door, what happens with the sleeve when you get outside? It lies against your wrist all day. You rub your face, hold a baby, and you've got all the icky germs taking a stroll.
The only solution I can see is to wash your hands in whichever method you choose, (with/without paper towel mitts) and then use the Purell stuff. The washing isn't redundant in that it will remove any invisible grime from your hands. Then the waterless hand sanitizer kills the germs you may have picked up on your way out.
The way I see it, even if you somehow believe that relieving yourself is somehow sufficiently hygienic that it doesn't require you to wash your hands in and of itself, the fact is that ordinary activities of everyday life do soil your hands, and you should probably wash them a few times a day even if you never saw the inside of The Smallest Room. So why not use bathroom-time as an excuse to get it done? I mean, you're already there, there's a sink all ready for you to use, and that way you'll get in a few hand-washings a day. Sort of like a biological alarm-clock, telling you it's time to wash your hands.
Guy comes out of the bathroom without washing his hands, and his brother notices.
"At Yale," his brother says, "they taught us to wash our hands after taking a piss."
"At Harvard," comes the reply which you are no doubt already saying to yourself because you've heard it a hundred times, "they taught us not to piss on our hands."
There's a doctor, a lawyer and a computer programmer all taking a pee in a public bathroom. They all finish at the same time, and step forward to the wash basins.
The doctor washes his hands, grabs somes paper towels, dries his hands and says to the either two "I use paper towels because hand driers can bred germs."
The lawyer washes his hands and places his hands under the drier and says "I use the drier because of it's precision and less waste."
The computer programmer looks at the other two, gos to the door, turns around and says "I don't piss on my hands".
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