I like public restroom doors that have a handle like protrusion down near the bottom for your foot
Someone who’s too fuckin lazy to wash their hands isn’t gonna take the time to read anything in public.
Like a JRPG, the choice is an illusion.
The real answer is to use a paper towel to open the door.
Since 2020 I haven’t touched a door handle in public. Because that’s when I realized just how backward some people are (I’d managed to avoid learning that prior). I wrap my sweatshirt around my hand to open them, now. In the summer I have paper towels in my pocket.
And the reason school bathrooms can’t just have kitchen doors that you can back into to open from either direction?
Newer bathrooms here just don’t have doors. Just two right angles. Can’t see in from the outside, but don’t need to touch a door handle.
It’s perfect.
what if I do the opposite
I saw shit smeared on a bathroom door the other day, hand dryers only, no paper towels, it was so gross.
Instructions unclear, genitalia stuck in the lower door handle. Send HALP
Based on the differences in color for each handle it makes me wonder if the one for not washing your hands is a different material. Maybe an antimicrobial metal like a copper alloy.
This is probably a weird cropping, but I like to think this doors pushed open since there are no hinges on this side.
I recall there was a story from Predictably Irrational where the experimenters were trying to figure out how to get participants to avoid double-dipping tortilla chips.
Along with a control condition, they tried setting up a sign that said “NO DOUBLE DIPPING”, and I think they also tried paying people or getting them to promise not to double dip, stuff like that.
The thing they found most successful was to set up two bowls of dip: One labeled “For double-dipping”, and one “Not for double-dipping”.
They supposed that once they had to do a physical action where they sorted themselves according to “what kind of person they are”, they wanted all of their visible actions to be consistent with that.
Interesting experiment but who the fuck doesn’t just eat the whole chip at once?
Did he stutter?
I like a big salsa to chip ratio, so I break the chip into smaller pieces (usually 2) and dip/scoop each one. No double dip, good salsa to chip ratio.
Side note, I believe the mythbusters did double dipping, and as I recall, it’s really not a problem unless you stir or leave the chip in the dip/salsa for an extended period.
Double dippers, apparently.
“Restaurant style” chips are enormous. Far too big to shove in your mouth at once.
sounds like you might benefit from having a bigger mouth
It’s been a long time but I recall a study featured on Freakonomics where a national park tried different signs to get people to not steal rocks. Signs like, “Taking rocks hurts the ecosystem” and “Taking rocks is a crime.”
The only effective one was something along the lines of, “A million people visit this park every year and leave things alone.” Suggesting that telling people to do the right thing is less effective than peer pressure.
On the one hand, it’s depressing because people seem to care more about fitting in than being rational.
But on the other hand, it’s reassuring that we’re so eager to solve things collaboratively that we’re willing to set aside our own personal opinions.
Our relentless obsession with social connection will either be the thing that kills us or the thing that saves us. And I honestly have NO idea which.
first off, the clean handle should be on top. the nasty handle shouldn’t drip onto the clean handle.
second, as you are leaving a public bathroom, reach under your shirt/jacket (hopefully something untucked. ) use the fabric as a barrier for your hand and grab the handle with the front of the shirt/jacket.
What is there to drip? Y’all pissing all over your hands or something?
If you are lucky enough to have a paper towel dispenser, dry your hands with one, use it to open the door, then prop it open with a foot while you throw away the paper towel
I just open it with my feet. I helps with keeping by thighs flexible too.
I almost exclusively flush with my feet in public bathrooms
the clean handle should be on top
I thought so at first too, but when you think about it, that’s the first handle everybody’s going to grab without reading the text, so that would defeat the purpose.
But now you have dry urine smeared over your sleeves.
Better than on my hands, but…
i didnt say sleeves. the underside of the bottom of your shirt. or go to a haberdashery and get yourself a hanky.
Ok. Your first one is “tomatoes, tomatos.” The second is my go-to solution of sorts as well: use a paper towel, open the door, and dump the paper towel in the nearest bin. This usually works more often than not.
This problem is solved by having paper towels (air dryers suck) and placing the paper towel trash bin next to the door so that you can use your hand-full of towels as a barrier between the handle and throw the towels away as you leave.
Or motorized door, or no door at all, this clearly isn’t a house, just have an S shaped passage. Voila, way fewer sick people on your building. It quickly pays for itself. And without reminding everyone on every day of how gross humans are.
it seems like a good idea to me, but my question is would it lead to more poop particles circulating more widely throughout the building than without a door? ig airports, etc seem fine with it so it must not be a big problem?
also a foot handle
I don’t believe there is good in human nature, so I’m going to remain grossed out by both handles.
Embrace the evil, double-dip both handles
This is a game theory scenario:
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I’m too lazy too lazy to wash my hands or don’t feel it’s necessary. Upon encountering this door I see both handles and decide to follow their instructions and open the door for unwashed hands. My hands are now unspeakably filthy as filthy people following the signs have accumulated a ton of germs on this handle. I get sick.
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I was my hands, follow the signs and use the washed handle. Unbeknownst to me some unwashed game theorists decided that obviously the handle for washed hands would be cleaner so they used it without actually washing their hands first. It’s now also filthy.
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I didn’t wash my hands, I don’t give a fuck about signs, use the one most convenient for me.
My hands are now unspeakably filthy as filthy people following the signs have accumulated a ton of germs on this handle. I get sick.
Do you normally get sick when you touch a bathroom door handle? It’s not like people choose not to wash their hands because there’s a separate handle for it.
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Literally scrolling while pooping at work and someone came in, did their thing and left without hand washing. These idiots walk among us.
I see it happen all too often. People suck.
I still wouldn’t trust either handle. People are assholes.
There are some folk who I went to school with I can see rubbing their assholes on the handles because “fuck you, you’re a sign not a cop”. I’m sure there’s a name for that disorder.
Oppositional Defiance Disorder, I have a coworker like this. It’s exhausting.
“Don’t you dare do anything I say”
He is also too intelligent for reverse psychology. I just ignore him if I can.
