Easy. You take one of those paper towels and keep it between you and the handle to open the door. Then you hold the door open with your foot while you try to toss the paper towel.
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Recently saw a door with a little tab at the bottom to put your foot on and open it that way, surprisingly functional.
I absolutely love those things. I don't understand why they aren't everywhere. I've seen maybe half a dozen in my lifetime
They're not exactly wheelchair accessible so most modern and publicly accessible places would rather install an entrance corridor or a push button door.
But yeah, no reason not to add them to places like warehouses and airports.
I've only seen this in a few places - and of the places most had them installed in the most awkward/ineffective way.
Really? They're everywhere where I live.
My toilet is cleaner than 99% of my ancestors cooking tools.
For a hundred thousand years your ancestors people's population never broke a million either.
Nah, im part baboon, only been around for a few hundred years tops.
Thanks king kong!
*Donkey Kong
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Trick question. That door doesn't work. Someone installed it like an idiot.
I don't get it bro, the hinges, door closer and handle all are formatted properly to open inward.
Educated your heathen friend here.
the door closer on the top will bind up on itself in that position.
That door closer is installed on the wrong side of the door if its a pull, it's actually a push.
Closers can work from either side, depending on the model.
I guess you're right, but that's probably not how I'd install it.
You can see the hinges though, so it is a pull
You are correct, perhaps the door is entirely nonfunctional.
Use a paper towel to open the door and toss it into the next garbage you see outside the bathroom. Or toss it into the trash as you leave.
This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.
I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.
I just use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands
...just use your tongue to pull the door open, that way you can keep your hands freshly-cleaned...
Or just simply lick the hand clean after you've opened the door.
The objectively correct way^
There are a good reasons for this:
Inward opening doors pull air into the bathroom area and both contain the smells and germs, (the opposite is true for outward opening doors) but also bring additional fresh air in.
Doors that open outwards into hallways (where public access toilets are most commonly found) is a huge hazard to people passing the door.
Not to mention foot pulls and automatic door openers are becoming more common so you dont have to touch the handle as often.
Lots of newer public toilets (at least in australia) are designed with an s-bend entrance to eliminate doors completely (however require constant exhaust).
Toilets in commercial buildings often have ante-chambers where doors open both ways into the chamber so you have to touch a handle regardless of direction of travel. (Common in offices and hospitals)
Huh never considered this, thanks
Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald's, where it's constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that's when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.
Just use the paper towel you used to dry your hands to open the door
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Many places put these on the bottom of the door for this very reason. Granted they only help people able to use them.
Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.
Is this not common elsewhere?
In facilities that have lots of room, yes (malls, schools, etc). Workplaces generally less inclined to devote that much space to it.
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Theoretically, if everyone did the Yes, the But wouldn't be that big of a But.
Sadly, I'm well aware not everyone does the Yes. Going into a men's public bathroom is disgusting; it's disgraceful how many men I've seen leave without washing.
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