No escape

One of the positives from the covid pandemic is a lot of bathroom doors can be opened with your foot now.

Seriously though, one of my biggest pet peeves is when they get every other aspect of touch-less design correct, and then fail with the door.

#designfails

Easy. Just lick the door handle 3 ~ 4 times to clean it so that you don't need to get your hands dirty.

The sensors aren't there for your convenience to turn them on, they are there to save the business money by turning them off.

Sometimes a trash bin is located near the door, so I'll use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands to open the door, hold the door open with my foot, then throw the paper towel in the bin. But these make hygiene so much easier:

I just grab the handle using my butt cheeks.

Those dyson.airblade urinals are typically so messy that they defeat the purpose of touch less.

Hand driers that use air increase "germs" on your skin. Paper towels reduce them.

If there are no paper towels I use toilet paper. Last time I used a public restroom I dried my hands on my pants.

There are add on "foot handles" that sort this out, but they are pretty uncommon.

My favourite is the kind of S curve that some places have, so you just walk in, but it's private enough that people can't just leer from the hallway or whatever I'm not actually sure what we're accomplishing with doors here unless it's a very tight space I guess like if the bathroom is near the area where patrons eat at a resto? Yeah I get that, door away. Sorry for rambling.

Easy, just open it with your teeth, then your hands will stay clean.

Yeah, this drives me crazy. Best thing I can do if I have a jacket or long sleeved shirt on, is to put my hand inside the sleeve and open it that way

I grab it with the edge of my shirt. While it's not ideal, my shirt will be washed later and it spares me having to deal with risk of fecal particles on my hands where they can immediately reach my face.

Sometimes the toilet god is merciful and someone comes in at just the right moment.

I just use my shirt tail or sleeve, haven't opened a door with my.bare hand since February 2020. (Yes I do realize COVID isn't spread by touching really but if it's one less risk I can take along with masking I will do it).

I was just thinking about that very problem the other day.

I use my foot

Kick it

This is why I just wrap my scrotum around the handle to open it, problem solved

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Let's normalize revolving doorways into bathrooms

The correct way to handle this would be to use a disposable paper product. Most places still have a paper towel dispenser along side the air hand dryer, you're supposed to use that.

Besides the point, most people don't know how to properly wash and dry their hands. There's a technique to both that actually improves cleanliness a lot and reduces overall waste.

I never use air based hand dryers. Paper towel for life. Some places use maze patterns instead of doors, which I generally like but usually requires some extra work with air handling to make sure the bathroom air stays in the bathroom, and a bit more floor space to provide the room for the maze pattern. Those restrooms are usually the ones without paper towel, I don't mind, I just have moist hands for a few minutes afterwards.

All of this can be googled. So I won't go into more detail, but the majority of people couldn't possibly give fewer fucks about handwashing or hand drying properly. So I expect most won't even try to learn how to do things better, ever. They just go with whatever their parents taught them as a child and never question it again. Bluntly, your parents probably did the same, so you're probably working off of 50+ year old advice on hand washing.

It's strange that automatic doors are standard on the outside of just about every shop, but nobody has ever thought to put them indoors.

Burn the toilet down

And what about the part of your pants you grab to pull them up before washing your hands?

Elbows, anyone?

At all times, gentlemen, have some old workshop towel or used tissues in the depths of your pockets.

I just stand inside the door until someone else comes in, then escape.

This works poorly in remote areas, but I consider 4 days trapped in a public bathroom worth it to avoid touching the poop handle.

Lots of places now have automatic doors with frosted glass

What about the foot puller thingy

Unless you're immunocompromised, is this really worth worrying about?

Apply shoulder to door