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This is why I love those things at the bottom of the door that lets you open the door with your foot.
Yes and I find it funny that I see them in some of the cheapest, bars & restaurants.
Sit at a bar and have $3 beer, there’s a foot grab.
Sit at a sushi bar and get $150 bottle of sake, no foot grab. Bizzaro.
True, except in this picture, you have to pull the door to get out.
I know … and unlock the door too!!! So I would only do that after and before i wash my hands.
The bathrooms outside the lobby in my work building take this automatic crap a step further, with automatic soap machines. It’s hit or miss if any given one will have soap at all. (Thankfully, we have another sink inside my work itself that employees can use, but guests are fucked.)
Then when they do dispense soap, it’s the foam shit. So it looks like the sink just spit into my hands. Lovely.
I know the pain, but both of those touchless options always suck. The water never stays on or doesn’t turn on unless you motion in one specific weird spot that’s either too close or too far away. And those dryers never dry your hands well enough. I’m grateful they never had touchless doors in the same way.
Though I have seen newer foot style doors that have a small piece of metal at the bottom you can “grab” and pull open.
The perfect hygienic restroom:
Hands-free soap dispenser, set to dispense liberally (businesses never do)
A hands-free sink that actually does its fucking job and comes on at a reasonably warm temperature, with decent water pressure, for 30 seconds minimum. I can handle having to position my hands somewhere weird for a second as long as I actually get a functional goddamn sink for a usable amount of time. So many of these automated sinks fail at this it’s unreal, but I’m certain non-shitty ones exist, I have used at least one.
Motion-activated paper towel dispenser with decent paper towels loaded.
Push-to-open door with no latch (such that you can just use your shoulder or hip anywhere).
Unfortunately, every public place I’ve ever been to has at least one failing element here. Like, it’s clear some places are trying and failing; and in others it’s just patently obvious they’re just trying to be cheap (miserly soap dispenser, sink set to turn off after just a couple seconds without motion in the magic spot and lukewarm temp, air blower instead of paper towels).
I really don’t even think you need to go that far. All you need is a paper towel dispenser and a trash can next to the door. OR a door that pushes out when you’re inside, like you said.
But you don’t even need both of these, just one. My favorite is the latter.
Hands free sink and soap is nice, but unnecessary.
Sure, in practical terms it’s probably overkill, but that’s why I say it’s the “perfect” hygienic restroom. You don’t need to touch anything at all with your hands in the entire room after you leave the stall/urinal.
Hell, that’s another item, come to think of it – floor-flushing toilets/urinals. The electric eye/sensing ones are fine too, I guess, but having a button on the floor I could just step on (which I have seen in places) is my preference. Minimizing hand contact areas in a bathroom is always a good thing.
Use your elbow, or your foot.
That’s why I use my prehensile penis
I’ve learned that in some places bathroom doors tend to open inwards, making this more difficult
Hand inside the shirt
You may end up with a compromised shirt
Or hand inside pants pocket. Either way is better than bare hands
This is what I do. I just always try avoid touching anything directly with my hands. Knee, elbow, back of wrist, foot…lots of good options if you don’t have a sleeve or something disposable available.
Edit: Sometimes there is also the discrete move of letting someone go ahead of you. Looks polite and they touch it instead.
Obviously it doesn’t work on these types of doors, but I really liked the foot grips that were installed on bathroom doors at the height of the pandemic. It makes no sense to me why they were removed
Those worked for you? They have always been comically small such that they are barely usable, if at all.
The ones I’ve seen be a problem we’re so flimsy that to put enough force onto them to open the door you ended up bending them down so far they scraped the ground.
My last job had those, prepandemic. It was nice.
Current job has an accessible button to open the door that I can hit with my knee.
How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?
Install games on its phone
This is why I always bring two dinosaur grabbers. One for me cock, and one for the door.
might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?
Shout out to S shaped hallway with no doors 😭you’re the real mvp
Who cares?
Anecdotal but Lemmy seems full of germaphobes. It’s whatever but just my observation.
I’ve lived long enough and dealt with this without getting sick so I also don’t really care personally.
If even the doors stop touching me, what will I have left?
Now don’t say that, we’re gonna have touchless doors that don’t work for dark skinned folks and too excited to open for white people passing by
And lazy shits who leave paper towels on the floor by the door.
There is some blame on the establishment for not providing a garbage by the door to alleviate this issue. However, if it was provided and people are still trashy, I guess it is what it is.
Chop your hands off, germ phobia problem solved.
Seriously. Is this meme implying that we won’t touch anything else all day?
Unless there’s something super contagious (e.g. COVID) going around you’re not going to get sick from a door handle. Stop being an irrational germaphobe.
So? Like a their to half of people (sorry don’t remember the stat, just remember being shocked how high it was) do not wash their hands after using public toilets.
Why would I want to touch that doorhandle.
There are much worse things
I’ve cleaned up some really nasty things in my time.
Stop being suck a dick.
Freudian slap.
In the University of Bremen it’s full of big red buttons everywhere to avoid touching handles.
