Put a piece of toilet paper over the sensor before sitting down. Those fucking things are always too sensitive - you lean forward a few inches, the light sensor detects a change and assumes you got up; public toilet water start gurgling droplets at your exposed asshole.
Fuck everything about that. Cover the sensor, shit, wipe, stand, pants up, knock the sensor block off with your foot, leave the stall as it starts to flush.
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Unrelated, but it’s wild how often I see people fuck up the next step, so I’m rant about handwashing anyway. So that sink handle you use to turn the water on? It’s covered with strangers’ feces. The lever to dispense the paper towel? It’s covered with strangers’ feces. The door handle to exit the bathroom? It’s covered with strangers’ feces. I don’t care thoroughly you wash your hands: if you use your sparkling clean hands to touch any surface in a public restroom, your hands are now covered in strangers’ feces.
Dispense paper towel - don’t touch it, just let it hang. Turn sink on. Wash. DON’T TURN THE SINK OFF. Grab the paper tower and pad off your hands: use that same paper towel as a barrier between your hands and the sink handle to turn the water off. Use it for the same purpose on the lever to dispense more paper towels if needed. And use it again for that same purpose to manipulate the door handle without actually coming into contact with it. Open door, throw paper towel into trash. Leave with still-sparkling-clean-hands.
But the restroom only has one of those horrible air dryers and not single use paper towels. There’s no good solution here: you’re in damage control mode. Turn the water off by nudging it with a knuckle or key or gum wrapper or whatever random bullshit you happen to have on your person. Don’t get anywhere near that disgusting air dryer - shake you hands off, wipe them on your pants, whatever, it’ll dry on its own. Bathroom door handle, your back to improvising with a piece of garbage or something, or prodding it with the tip of your pinky or w/e to minimize contact as much as possible. Once you make your escape, leave a shitty review. Literally.
Short version: after the soap and water bit, you should only be touching a wad of paper product, and only the portion of that product that hasn’t touched any of the other nasty surfaces in there.
Side-eye other people’s handwashing habits, and you’ll understand real quick why things like hepatitis and e.coli infections are as prevalent as they are.
Put a piece of toilet paper over the sensor before sitting down. Those fucking things are always too sensitive - you lean forward a few inches, the light sensor detects a change and assumes you got up; public toilet water start gurgling droplets at your exposed asshole.
Fuck everything about that. Cover the sensor, shit, wipe, stand, pants up, knock the sensor block off with your foot, leave the stall as it starts to flush.
…
Unrelated, but it’s wild how often I see people fuck up the next step, so I’m rant about handwashing anyway. So that sink handle you use to turn the water on? It’s covered with strangers’ feces. The lever to dispense the paper towel? It’s covered with strangers’ feces. The door handle to exit the bathroom? It’s covered with strangers’ feces. I don’t care thoroughly you wash your hands: if you use your sparkling clean hands to touch any surface in a public restroom, your hands are now covered in strangers’ feces.
Dispense paper towel - don’t touch it, just let it hang. Turn sink on. Wash. DON’T TURN THE SINK OFF. Grab the paper tower and pad off your hands: use that same paper towel as a barrier between your hands and the sink handle to turn the water off. Use it for the same purpose on the lever to dispense more paper towels if needed. And use it again for that same purpose to manipulate the door handle without actually coming into contact with it. Open door, throw paper towel into trash. Leave with still-sparkling-clean-hands.
But the restroom only has one of those horrible air dryers and not single use paper towels. There’s no good solution here: you’re in damage control mode. Turn the water off by nudging it with a knuckle or key or gum wrapper or whatever random bullshit you happen to have on your person. Don’t get anywhere near that disgusting air dryer - shake you hands off, wipe them on your pants, whatever, it’ll dry on its own. Bathroom door handle, your back to improvising with a piece of garbage or something, or prodding it with the tip of your pinky or w/e to minimize contact as much as possible. Once you make your escape, leave a shitty review. Literally.
Short version: after the soap and water bit, you should only be touching a wad of paper product, and only the portion of that product that hasn’t touched any of the other nasty surfaces in there.
Side-eye other people’s handwashing habits, and you’ll understand real quick why things like hepatitis and e.coli infections are as prevalent as they are.
We fuckin nasty.