Mildly Infuriating

Mythbusters did a segment that showed the air dryers are more likely to spread germs. So it's just awful all around

I mean unless the air blowing on your hands was freshly filtered and uv sterilized that is going to be an issue to.

Any handle or surface in public areas, assume the person that handled it before you had just finished taking a monster shit and skipped the handwashing before rubbing their pathogen-factories all over it. Photo in OP, there's not really a good option, so you're in damage control mode... check for toilet seat liners that some public restrooms stock and grab one of them? At least that's something the other people handle before getting shit all over their hands.

One of the nastiest assignments I've had working in a hospital was 'Handwashing Monitor'. And let me tell you, I've debrided infected wounds; wiped maggots out of some fucker's pannus; cleaned up every bodily fluid our bodies are capable of cranking out from the floor, walls, and sometimes ceiling; helped amputate limbs that were literally rotten to the bone, and wiped a cumulative mile or two of ass crack...

...apply to nursing school today!!...

...but anyway, Handwashing Monitor. It is beyond appalling the number of patients, visitors, techs, nurses, doctors, housekeepers, you name it... who'd go in and out of patient rooms without performing hand hygiene; or they'd wash their hands, but for like half a second; or not use soap; or turn the faucet on with their grimy-ass hands, do a thorough handwash, then immediately contaminate themselves by grabbing that same dirty-ass faucet with their bare hands to turn it off. The thing that made that position take the crown above all the other examples I gave in the previous paragraph was the realization that the community who is THE single most painfully aware of pathogens and their origins / mechanism of spreading... can't even wash their fucking hands!

...which brings us back to my opening sentence: it's not advice on sheer ick factor, but a reasonable assumption based on directly observed evidence.

And no, this wasn't just a particularly icky hospital: I've worked in multiple states for multiple organizations/facilities, and to this day get eye-rolls for asking people to re-wash or even first-wash their hands.

We nasty. Be a germaphobe. End rant.

Obviously it doesn't work on these types of doors, but I really liked the foot grips that were installed on bathroom doors at the height of the pandemic. It makes no sense to me why they were removed

This is why I love those things at the bottom of the door that lets you open the door with your foot.

Turns out businesses don’t care about cleanliness or your safety beyond the point where it might affect their bottom line and just install touchless sinks and hand dryers to save money on water and paper towels

I've had contamination OCD for the majority of my life, and this shit has been torture for me.

I've been trying to get a ADA accommodation to work from home because my job is in software, but the bastards over at HR think that clorox wipes and a dedicated cube will solve this shit. It's irritating as fuck that nobody in charge seems capable of piecing basic hygiene together.

This wouldn't be a problem if people actually washed their hands.

Grab the handle with your butt cheeks. it's a talent/skill you can hone

Use your elbow, or your foot.

I know the pain, but both of those touchless options always suck. The water never stays on or doesn’t turn on unless you motion in one specific weird spot that’s either too close or too far away. And those dryers never dry your hands well enough. I’m grateful they never had touchless doors in the same way.

Though I have seen newer foot style doors that have a small piece of metal at the bottom you can “grab” and pull open.

How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?

Touchless sinks are the worst fucking tech ever. Shit never works, and when it does, it never gives you enough water to get a good hand wash

I would simply pinch the handle between my absolute dumptruck bootycake cheeks

Yess so you go into the stall and grab some shit tickets so you don't have to touch the door handle and then Ooop they didn't put a trashcan anywhere near the door.

I understand not everyone is gonna shell out for a hook so you can operate the door with your foot, but at least put a trash can in throwing distance of the door so I don't have to touch the nasty ass handle with my clean hands.

This is why I always bring two dinosaur grabbers. One for me cock, and one for the door.

I saw a bathroom like this that had the metal thing for you to pull the door open with your foot instead.

The door required the handle to be turned in order for it to open.

This thread renforces my theory that hygienism is a bastard of capitalism. So much useless worries but in the same time so lucrative

Geez I guess some people never go outside into the world of germs

There are plenty of ways to make this better. Most of it's theater because there's nothing really wrong with touching the door, but some of the ways are not even expensive to make it comfortable for germaphobes.

Single bathroom doors always swing out

Copper-plate the handles

If you have to swing in, add a foot handle.

This reminds me of a sign I saw at a restaurant bathroom recently.

If even the doors stop touching me, what will I have left?

If you simply cut your hands off these petty grievances will become a distant memory.