with your hand or foot ?

I always use my foot !

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ALWAYS use my foot. I don't want to even think about using my hand. LOL

Jen

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I am a foot person also.

Foot. Ewwwwww.....just think about it......

Add me to the foot list.

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if i cant use my foot, i "protect" my hand with tp (sometimes its a small button).
I work in a public retail store, and you should see the amount and types of people that dont wash their hands, employees and non...People that appear to be nicely dressed or poorly dressed.
Whenever I train a new emplyee, I teach them to never touch their face with their hands (people sneeze on items, touch them with yucky hands, and who knows what is on the carts??) not even for an itch.

I use my foot

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Are you kidding me? I can't get my foot up there...too old I guess I flush with TP but I also wash my hands very well, and then use the paper towel to open the door to leave. Otherwise, you're picking up all the germs from those that used their hands and then did not wash..yeck!

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I always use my foot. I also try to use a paper towel to open the door to leave the restroom if possible. I hate when they only have the blow dryers.

It's all about the foot action with me.

I am surprised that you all flush with your foot. I'm 6 feet tall I am just happy my knees fit in the stall with me half the time. I normally grab toliet paper and flush.

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I flush with tp too.

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Usually neither...most toilets around here are auto flush. If I do have to flush, I use my hand and wash well. I always check to make sure there is soap and paper towels before I go though...won't use a public toilet if they are out of soap

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I use my hands. I never even thought about using my foot.I also never wash my hands in public unless they are a sticky mess from something.I just keep my hands away from my face,and if I'm eating out,I don't touch the food with my hands.I do wash my hands first thing when I get home though.I never get sick except for maybe one 3 day cold a year.

I use my foot. I have heard that you should wash your hands BEFORE and after you use the restroom.

This is pretty much what we do.......I used to flush with my feet, but then my youngers ones would try it too, and would lose their balance a lot and land on the floor. So I switched it up and have taught them all to use tp to flush and papert towels to open the Door.....

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Always use my foot, and a paper towel to open the door, just in case somebody didn't wash their hands~

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We use our knee when wearing pants because we think a foot is unkind to the next user if they use their hand... we always have to be different, ha ha! During shorts season, we use hand w/ TP.

foot flusher here

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"If" I am actually forced to go into a public restroom(which is almost every time I take daughter shopping UNLESS my Mom is with us) I will use my foot.

That's what I do too!

I used my foot or tp to flush and paper towels or tp at the door handle to leave. I just wish the people that spray the seats would clean up the seats.

I use my foot. My 3 year old daughter has started to try to use her foot but she can't reach. It's cute watching her try. I do it for her. Then of course we wash and use a paper towel to open the door.

tp all the way they all have little buttons on the top or side of the toliet.

I'm a foot person, too. If it's a push button, then use TP. Then after I wash my hands, I use a paper towel to open the door. I read somewhere that if there's not a trash can at the door to just drop the paper on the floor and eventually the cleaning crew will get the hint. It's actually worked at our JC Penney here in town. Enough of us were dropping our paper towels on the floor after opening the door. I noticed the last time I was in the JCP restroom, there was a trash can AT the door!!

I use my foot also.

I hate having to touch the faucet to turn the water off after having washed my hands. Feels rather like it defeats the purpose!

Personally, without going into unnecessary details, when I analyze my bathroom habits I don't think I actually pick up any germs on my hand from the actions involved in actually completing the task I went into the restroom for. The only thing my hands ever touch are my zipper and some TP, which I assume is sanitary in and of itself.

Any germs I pick up are from the knob of the stall door, the faucet handles, and the door handle.

I am really grossed out now.All these years of hand flushing and all this time you guys were walking around on peed and pooped on floors and putting it all over the flush handle.I'm glad this thread was created.I will never use my hands again!

I use my foot also.To many nasty people around.

Why would you never wash your hands in public??
Also, just because you dont get sick does not mean you are not passing the stuff on to others...remember Typhoid Mary??

I always FOOT flush. I also use a papertowel to turn on the faucet and to open the door to leave. I am VERY obsessive about bathrooms and germs!

sorry, quoted the wrong post in my previous reply...this is the one I meant to reply to

Why would you foot flush? Do you know how many young kids use those bathrooms and flush with their hands?Young kids always have there hands in their faces.No wonder kids get all kinds of nasty staph infections these days.

Unless I happen to be in an extremely clean bathroom,(which is very rare around here),I just don't feel any cleaner washing my hands unless they are sticky.

This is why we use our knee.

Foot. I can kick my leg up high if I have to.

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Foot for me too.

What I dislike is when some one doesn't flush!!!
I won't go in those stalls.

I wash my hands and dry on a napkin from my pocket then use purell after I leave.

I definately do the foot. And as to all those kids, they should be washing their hands after flushing!!! I also use a paper towel to turn off the water faucet when I'm done washing my hands.

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Foot here too. I hate it for the people behind me, but that's just too icky for me. My daughters were taught to do the same. But nothing is worse than finding an unflushed toilet!

Question, is the foot flushing thing something that all of you have always done as a kid or was it much later in life that you started this practice? I remember when I was 13, my friend told me that her mom instructed her to always put toilet paper on the seat of a public restroom. That was the first that I had ever heard of that. My mom didn't have any public restroom instructions, and it was something that I never thought of. I just wonder if in today's society we are taught to be overly cautious with public anything.

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I am only 5 ft tall so foot for me always.

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Usually foot. I'm not too concerned about the person using the facility after me, I expect they should wash their hands when they are done too. I use paper towels to open the doors also. I was at the hospital the other day and was disappointed that they still had handles on the inside of the door - why not just have a push door? Who wants to wash their hands and then have to touch a door handle knowing that others haven't washed their hands and then touched that same handle? Yuck.

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I think my mom taught me the foot thing. And she definately taught me to line the seat with toilet paper. Sometimes a use a double or triple layer! So this was decades ago, I don't think it is anything new.

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Most places we go around here have the auto toilets and faucets. If not we use our foot. What's cute is my 8yr old DD will do the same, she even washes her hands and uses the towel to get a towel ready for the next person in line and then uses it to open to door!

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My mom taught me the foot, and the toilet paper on the seat thing. Has anyone ever used those paper seat protectors ? They end up making more of a mess than they are good for !

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DH calls those "a$$ gaskets"

One thing about those protectors bugs the crap out of me (no pun intended ) That's the women who leave them behind, either intentially or not (though not sure how you wouldn't know). It's as if to say their butt is too good to touch the seat, but the next person's butt shouldn't mind sitting where they did - and cleaning up after the protector-user-leaver-behinder.

I've been flying around all week. Wanted to know if any of you had mastered the foot on the airplane toilet flusher (it's tiny!)???

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I use my hand to flush unless there is grime on it from someone else using their foot, then I use some tp.

I just don't see what big advantage there is to using your foot when you're going to turn around and go out of the stall and wash your hands. Any cooties(real or imagined)that you could possibly get on your hands are going to be eliminated in seconds by the handwashing.

It always amuses me to see someone open the bathroom door with a paper towel and then go right over and grab a cart and go on their way with no thought of the cooties that are on cart handles.

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I am reading this is shock. The foot thing must have been something my mother left out of my training. We are all talking about a regular toilet ( like we have at home) with a hip high handle.....and you all use your foot to push the handle down? That is pretty high to lift your leg in that little stall. Kudos to you....but I guess now ( at my advanced age) I will have to continue to use a toilet paper covered hand.

Funny funny thread..thanks for bringing a smile

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I agree. You take a chance of tumbling into the toilet, or worse onto the floor and then if you survive the foot in the air action, you then have to touch the latch on the door and sometimes the door itself.

One thing I have found, is those purse packs of sanitary wipes. Never leave home without them, for those times when you need a quick wash between restroom stops, or when you really must use the restroom and find no soap.

I agree. You take a chance of tumbling into the toilet, or worse onto the floor and then if you survive the foot in the air action, you then have to touch the latch on the door and sometimes the door itself.

One thing I have found, is those purse packs of sanitary wipes. Never leave home without them, for those times when you need a quick wash between restroom stops, or when you really must use the restroom and find no soap.

I use my foot and have taught my DD the same. I feel kind of selfish now as I hadn't thought about the next person using their hand after my dirty shoe... I am considerate of the establishment however, I push the handle rather gently with my foot. I have thought about foot after foot kicking that handle and how rough that is on the plumbing!