Public Restroom Flushing

I use my tongue.

sure hope you've never gone to the middle east and done that

Or South-East Asia...

Heck yeah I use my foot. And I use a tissue or paper towel to open the doors. Those places are friggen germ pools. Yuck.

Here in England in most places you just need to wave or not even that the water flushes automatically. I can always get some paper to press the button with, but it's pointless as I'll wash my hands in the next minute anyway!

What bugs me is people don't even flush sometimes or leave wee all over the place. I always squat over the toilet instead of sitting on it LOL

I use my hand unless I have too much to carry, then I will use my foot. But I wash my hands anyways so I don't care. But I do have to add, if the floor is wet, I use my foot because I realize other people do.

Foot flusher.
Don't wash my hands in the public restrooms as I am allergic to most soaps...and you never know till it's too late.
I carry hand sanitizer and use that ALWAYS!

All you ladies who use TP to flush the toilet and then throw it in the toilet while it goes down still has to open the stall door. There's just as many germs on the stall door as on the toilet handle. Think about it.....there hands didn't miraculously come clean between flushing and opening the door.

I am WELL aware of this but whatever. It's a small comfort and I enjoy my small comforts.

I guess it really depends, I'll use my foot if I still have my coffee and donuts in my hands. I am NOT putting my donut down to flush, that's just ridiculous!

Hahaha!!!

Flush??? Wait ... I thought I was supposed to leave the log for the next person to see. Is that wrong?

It's cleaner than the door handle. I flush with my hand, and WASH my hand.

On note from someone who used to Manage a Convenience store on the Interstate. The "clean" people are the dirtiest people out there most of the time. The women who hover instead of sitting down? They're the ones peeing on the seat. ( and the floor, and the tank ) The ones who won't turn the sink off when they're hands are dry ( we only had a hand dryer to save trees ) They flood the bathroom floor. The ones who use the toilet covers, leave them on the floor rather than touching the trash can. I just think people using a public restroom, should THINK, and lets not trash it for other people, because your scared to touch anything. Oh and these restrooms were always spotless. known to many many travelers as the Cleanest restroom between Chicago, and Memphis. And people still constantly did these things.

Office/Restaurant/Theater/Anywhere not a private home with obvious cleaning rituals.

Do you use your foot or hand to flush? Even with push button ones or the automatic ones that might be off timer-wise or broken.

I use my foot even if the damn thing is eye level. I'm NOT touching that thing.

To be honest, even in some friends/family homes, I'll still hover and use a napkin/tissue.

I really wish i had as much time on my hands as you do. serious.

I'm not afraid of sitting on a toilet, using my hand to flush. I wash my hands. But don't ever try to shake my hand because I don't know if YOU wash your hands. When you offer your hand, I'll just tell you I have a cold.

My favorite are the people who line the seat with toilet paper then leave it there when they are done. Seriously? If you can't sit where my *kitten* has been, what makes you think I want to clean up the paper where your *kitten* has been?

My favorite are the people who line the seat with toilet paper then leave it there when they are done. Seriously? If you can't sit where my *kitten* has been, what makes you think I want to clean up the paper where your *kitten* has been?

Amen!!

Totally squat and foot flush. I don't know why people think if things look clean they are clean. Kitchen counters and phones look fine and are covered in ecoli; looks can be deceiving. I'm glad one other poster mentioned singing their ABCs. That is essential. I'm mortified with how horribly people wash their hands--hardly any soap and just a few seconds under the water. I actually prefer to use alcohol hand sanitizer, which is more effective than soap when no grim or dirt is actually on hands.

Oh and the door touching issue--I never touch it. I'll usually just nudge the bottom of the door closed with the bottom of my foot and nudge it back open when I'm done. I've never had anyone bust in on me and I'd care a lot less about that then touching the filthy door. If it's a single stall bathroom and I wouldn't have the heads up of hearing people walking past other stalls--I use something long to flick or push the lock closed (and toss it and use something new to flick it open).

Basically, I never make contact (with a paper towel or otherwise) with one single thing in a public restroom.

On another note--what do you do with your purse? I saw a recent statistic that a majority of women will put their purse on the floor of the restroom (and that it's contributing to large amounts of ecoli on restaurant tables)! That strikes me as so foul. I wouldn't put mine on the door hang--let alone the floor. I don't get how people don't consider how transferable bacteria is...