Unwashed Hands

[Topwaterspook]

Does it infuriate anyone else but me when someone uses the restrooms in restaurants then exits without washing their hands? They grab the door handle when they leave, spreading germs. They touch menus. They touch the condiments. Only God knows what they grab at a buffet. Don't parents teach these things anymore?  It's not only children. I constantly see grown men my age do the very same thing. I JUST HAD TO  VENT!!

[Marty]

I'm not in restaurants often, but from what I read, what you witnessed is, unfortunately, not an isolated instance, but rather one of many.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Nah not really. On a normal workday my toilet consists of a PVC outhouse with a plastic urinal and a hole cut in a plastic box. There is no running water on half the job sites. Hand sanatizer is a contractors best friend.

[hooah212002]

I take it you urinate on your hands when you use the facilities? My pants are not germ infested hotbeds writhing with critters, so I don't obsess about washing my hands after touching stuff. If YOU are so concerned about cleanliness, carry hand sanatizer with you and wash your hands fervently instead of judging other people for not doing things according to your standards.

[fishinfiend]

I'm not sure about you, but I bathe every day at least once. My meat and potatoes are much cleaner than anything in a public restroom. I don't touch anything.

[Root beer]

Two things: one I wash my hand before I go to bathroom so I don't get it dirty. Secondly, I was taught not pee on my hand...

[flippin and pitchin]

When I was in college, my track team was on an away meet and stopped at a little old, very old filling station on a coast road. The inside of the mens room was nasteeeeee.  Some one had posted a sign on the wall.  "Please tick on your hands after washing.  The water here is filthy."  But you have a valid point.

[slonezp]

Two things: one I wash my hand before I go to bathroom so I don't get it dirty. Secondly, I was taught not pee on my hand...

Please don't pee on Topwaterspook's hands if you ever meet him. He doesn't like that.

 

TWS, I've done refrigeration work in restaurants for the last 15 years. People not washing their hands in the restroom it the least you need to worry about

[flippin and pitchin]

Sorry.  I guess the pi** word is not approved.  I tried to edit but the system wouldn't let me change it from tick.

[tomustang]

Public restrooms are much cleaner than your own kitchen. Worst is your tv remote and phone.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Sorry.  I guess the pi** word is not approved.  I tried to edit but the system wouldn't let me change it from tick.

I thought you were trying to be European sounding.

[Sam]

Suggestions:

 

1.  Always open the bathroom door when exiting by using a hand towel on the handle. Throw the hand towel away after opening the door with it.

2.  When opening a door use a fist with the part by your small finger placed high on the door if the door opens into the establishment.

3.  If the door opens outward (required by new building codes for easy access out of a building in case of an emergency) try to use your small finger hooked on the bottom of the handle.

4.  Look in grocery stores for hand sanitizer sheets to clean the cart handles.

5.  Carry hand sanitizers in your car.

 

Not being paranoid but we need to help control the germs we encounter to protect ourselves from getting colds, the flu, etc.

[SirSnookalot]

My wife is obsessed with hand sanitizer, I'm not.  She is no healthier than I am, in fact she gets ill more often.  Hand sanitizers and anti bacterial soap remove the good bacteria as well as the bad, good bacteria is healthy for us.

[Topwaterspook]

Some that have answered assume I urinate on myself as I use the restrooms. I assure you I don't and I do wash my hands thoroughly. I find it odd that people that don't know me make assumptions. Replies here have confirmed my suspicions about the view some have of hygiene.

[aceman387]

I  was helping my 80 year old uncle with some work in a dirty old semi trailer. I had my wife throw some sandwiches together for lunch while i went in to scrub my hands because they were as black as cue balls.I will never forget when i came out of the bathroom and went back outside my uncle was standing outside the trailer eating his sandwich which was on white bread with his black hands,not dirty but black,you could see the white bread had more black showing on it then white.lol

[metalhack]

I did a biology paper on public bathrooms. It was called "The Bug in the Stall Next to You". I did swabs of 27 different public bathrooms sufaces and toilet splashback...I found:

Cold Virus

strep

staph

E-Coli

STD's

Shingles

Hepatitus

The worst bacteria contact was not on surfaces it was the water that splashed out when a toilet is flushed. Water splashed as far as 6 feet.

That said public bathrooms were actually pretty clean.

I also swabbed pool sticks,video games,bowling balls,carriage handles and door handles. The dirtiest were the pool cues.

I'd wash my hands if I were you.

[Sam]

I  was helping my 80 year old uncle with some work in a dirty old semi trailer. I had my wife throw some sandwiches together for lunch while i went in to scrub my hands because they were as black as cue balls.I will never forget when i came out of the bathroom and went back outside my uncle was standing outside the trailer eating his sandwich which was on white bread with his black hands,not dirty but black,you could see the white bread had more black showing on it then white.lol

 

Aceman387, that is why he is your grandfather and he is old.

 

If he tried to get rid of all the germs he would have croaked in his 50s.

 

I am going outside right now and eat some dirt.

[Sam]

Oops. Meant uncle, not grandfather.

[Root beer]

After number 2 I do wash my hands, throwing up I wash my hands, etc. But a simple little squirt where I only touch skin that no different than skin on rest of my body? (This also assume I don't get any pee on me..) Eh. If the door requires a push to open, I don't even touch the metal plate where 99.99% of people do..

[hooah212002]

Some that have answered assume I urinate on myself as I use the restrooms. I assure you I don't and I do wash my hands thoroughly. I find it odd that people that don't know me make assumptions. Replies here have confirmed my suspicions about the view some have of hygiene.

 

I think your posts denote much more negativity and rude behavior than do all the others. You're a very judgemental person. Somehow you've come to the conclusion that you are clean beyond reproach and everyone else here are some sort of slovenly heathens unworthy of touching things you touch.

 

How's the weather on that high horse up in that castle on Mt. Olympus?

 

To quote you: Don't parents teach these things anymore? (these things being manners and not judging people).

 

To quote you again: I JUST HAD TO  VENT!!

[Diggy]

I see people hop out the gym bathroom not washing their hands, it disgusts me. Ive seen someone come out of a stall from dropping of luggage and walk out without washing hands, post flush. Humans are downright nasty sometimes.

[quanjig]

As a locksmith I am in contact with some of worst germ transferring objects in the world, door hardware! I don't wash my hands incesintly nor do I carry hand sanitizer with me. I wash my hands before eating and after bathroom use. I also try to make sure I keep my hands away from my face during the day. I like to think I have a money immune system!!

[J Francho]

OK guys, remember: let's not get personal here.  I'm with Sam - a hand washer and paper towel door holder. I also use the but gaskets when available.

[Hyrule Bass]

i wash my hands a bunch. every time i use the rest room, i wash my hands. before i eat, i wash my hands. after fishing i wash my hands. after touching some sort of trash can lid or whatever, i wash my hands. after touching animals(even my own animals) i wash my hands. after shaking someones hand, i wash my hands as soon as possible(dont want to offend someone by running to wash them right afterwards). sometimes i wash them just to wash them.

[Ratherbfishing]

I, too, find it disgusting when people don't wash their hands.  How hard is it?