YES OR NO: When I last went to the bathroom, I washed my hands afterward.

[jswordy]

YES

[4_Legs_Good]

1. YES

[flvegan]

2. Yes. I'm a little OCD about it, too.

[trotsky]

11. Join the club.

I flush the urinal handle with my foot.
I use a paper towel to turn the sink faucet on and off.
The towel I use to dry my hands, I also use to open the door.

Sorry, but I have seen FAR too many guys I work with that finish their business and stride right out without even looking at the sink.

It's not the cleanliness of my body I'm worried about, it's the cleanliness of THEIRS.

[jswordy]

19. I do the foot thingie, but get this!

I have found out from a microbiologist that GERMS WILL NOT LIVE once they contact metal. Period. Once the germs off yer hands hit that chrome faucet handle or whatever, they die.

He tells me that the worst trend in bathrooms at present is going to the textured faucet stuff that is resin or plastic. That stuff does NOT kill germs.

Also high on his list of hates is antibacterial soap, which he says merely selects the strongest bacteria to survive and come back to get us.

I dunno, that's what he says...heh...

I have a coworker who will NOT do his thing until he cleans the toilet seat. He uses a paper towel to touch everything, and carries it out the door with him to dispose of in his trash can at his cube!

THAT

is anal. Heh.

[trotsky]

39. Metal kills germs?

Hadn't heard that before. Look what this site (http://www.securityworld.com/library/health/germwar.html) says:

* The urinal handle, faucet, or doorknob in a men's restroom

Wash your hands, and use a paper towel to shut off the faucet and open the door.

Tada! I follow their recommended procedure. :)

[jswordy]

44. It MUST be true...

it's on the WEB!!!

;)

[last_texas_dem]

40. Anal

One of my friends from high school started having major bladder infections when we were juniors due to his childhood phobia of using any bathrooms besides the one at his house. He not only wouldn't use public bathrooms, but when he was a kid and would visit friends or relatives (even when staying overnight with them) he would just not go to the bathroom rather than use their facilities! By high school he would use public bathrooms, but would do things like your coworker (giving the toilet seat a complete wipedown, putting toilet tissue squares around the rim of the toilet before sitting down). Needless to say, the most anal person I've ever known...

[jswordy]

45. Yes, my coworker is very anal and is also a die hard Republican.

They go together, I reckon!

[fortyfeetunder]

3. I have the flu, therefore I wash.

I also use the waterless cleaner in addition to the soap and water these days.

[merwin]

6. If you already have the flu, you might as well just pee on your hands.

[meegbear]

4. No

I know where my body's been.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

35. Remind me never to share popcorn with you at the movies!

:P

[meegbear]

42. LOL

[Modem Butterfly]

5. No, because I didn't pee on my hands

Kidding people, I kid, I kid.

[liberal N proud]

7. Yes and when I leave the restroom, I take a paper towel with me

to open the door.
I see way too many people walk out with out ever going near the sink.

[CottonBear]

29. Me too.

I use a clean towel to turn off the sink and then open the door. I hold the door open with my foot while I toss the towel in the trash. People who don't wash are just plain nasty.

[On the Road]

8. YES

and I'm insulted you have to ask. :)

[jswordy]

22. Don't be insulted, and here's why I asked

My own observations are that about half don't wash up afterward. There has even been a survey showing a third SAY they don't.

Here ya go:

http://www.cleaning101.com/whatsnew/09-13-04.html

[On the Road]

38. I'm Not Really Insulted

and I am appalled that so many people DON'T wash their hands. Sitting in a public restroom occasinally gives you a pretty good idea.

[jswordy]

43. OW! My leg hurts...

...from being pulled on! LOL

[CatWoman]

9. YES

YES, YES, YES, YES!!!!!

I contracted pink eye last month, and I'm not taking ANY chances of reinfection.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

10. yes

[MissMillie]

12. YES!!!!!

because that's the clean and courteous thing to do.

[ContraBass Black]

13. yes

And every time before that when there were soap and water on hand.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. I wash my hands BEFORE...

because they've been all sorts of nasty places, but that thing's been safely tucked away in my pants and I don't want to get it dirty.

[yvr girl]

15. Absolutely

And quite thoroughly too.

[Goldmund]

16. NOPE

[livinginphotographs]

17. No.

If I'm just pissing, no. I flush the urinal with my foot, by the way.

Anything more involved, yes, I wash my hands.

[loudestchick]

18. Yes!

[drdon326]

20. No.

if just pee-ing, i use my foot to flush.

THE WORST THING TO TOUCH ARE THE "C-SHAPED" DOOR OPENERS..

I try to use a paper towel, or shirt bottom, or if i absolutely must grab it i grab the lower part of handle.

[Ganja Ninja]

21. In the words of Grandpa Simpson.

"That's your policy not mine!"

[txaslftist]

23. Does a bush in the back yard count as "the bathroom"?

just askin...

[Worst Username Ever]

24. I just got back, and YES

Twice, actually. I'm obsessive.

[LiberallyInclined]

25. when i get up in the morning, i take a nice hot shower...

and then i towel off, and put on nice clean underwear, and then a pair of pants.
when i leave the house, i get in my car, handle money at the drive-thru, then stop to put gas in the car...self-serve. after i park the car, i might handle a number of doorknobs to get to where i'm going...

taking this into consideration, by the time i get to the washroom, i think i should wash my hands BEFORE touching my nice clean penis that has been safely tucked away beneath two layers of protective clothing all morning.

BTW- why do you wash your hands after going to the bathroom..? Do you have a problem with pissing on your hands, or something?
weren't you ever properly toilet-trained?

[yvr girl]

46. All I can say, is that public washrooms are much less hazardous for men

I clean the toilet see (top and bottom) prior to sitting down. Yes, this is necessary. You'd be amazed how women can manage to get moisture everywhere! Don't even get me started on the awful 1-ply used in most public washrooms.

I avoid public washrooms whenever possible. Yuck.

You guys also have a much easier time in the woods. Life is so unfair.

[yorkiemommie1]

26. before and after

no 'sitting' either, i hover. flush w/ foot. use paper to open, close, doors and faucets. use paper to touch anything. use paper towel to open door as i leave. i notice more people are doing this because now there is a trash can placed near the door.

ever watch "monk" on USA network? well, i'm 'ms. monk'.

(don't even ask me about using a 'virgin' pencil...that would be a pencil straight from the box.

something's working...i haven't had a cold in years!!

[Schema Thing]

27. Yes. In urine.

Haven't you heard, it heals most everything.

[LiberallyInclined]

28. One other thing for you to consider-

every time you smell some else's fart- in an elevator, on a bus, at the movies, whatever...
it means that a molecule that was just inside someone else's hairy ass has entered your nostril, and is tickling your brain.

[jswordy]

34. That's true...THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME!

Yes a sick puppy, LiberallyInclined. I like it.

[jswordy]

30. After reading all these responses...

I GOTTA PEE!!!!

BRB..heheheh...

[DistantWind88]

31. A lot of people

need to learn not to piss on their hands it seems...

[jswordy]

36. LOL...I wonder who taught them that???

[Bethany Rockafella]

32. Yes.

And if men touch their thing, they should wash their hands.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

33. Yes

Ewwww... who would say no?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

37. This reminds me of Seinfeld...the Poppy episode

[last_texas_dem]

41. Yes

I'll plead the fifth as to whether this is always the case... ;-)