This thing has been bothering me forever, and I cannot take it anymore. I am here to vent and ask questions that keep me awake at night. As you know, I just returned from Houston, which means that I was at the airport, and I was peeing in the bathroom, and I saw things. First of all, I consider any bathroom that isn’t in my house or in someone’s house a public bathroom. Airports. Hotels. Restaurants, etc. I won’t mention any names, but there are also people whose bathrooms in their homes may as well be public bathrooms. Tufia kwa for you people.
Now, I know that some public bathrooms are so clean that you feel like lying on the floor. Example: bathrooms in luxury hotels. They are usually very clean, and they smell very good, and they have the good napkins to dry your hands, and they even have good lighting to touch up your makeup. Still, they are bathrooms that several thousands of people have used, and I don’t know these people – or where they’ve put their bums.
My bag – handbag, that is – is so personal to me. I don’t understand how people enter public bathrooms – and not necessarily the fancy ones – and leave their bags on the floor. That’s disgusting! Someone might have pee’d on the floor, or dripped some period blood there, or thrown up, or who knows what was on the bottom of their shoes. And then you come and just put your bag there? *SHIVERING*
My bag on my bathroom floor
Surely, I cannot be the only one who finds it weird and nasty to put a bag on the floor of a public bathroom. I realize that part of my issue is probably in my head since I sometimes literally imagine crawling bacteria. Still, the bathroom floor in a public restroom is just too much for me. In fact, if I could float in the air (over the toilet) and pee – instead of letting my feet touch the ground – I would. So, yes, I am one of those people who squat to pee and flush the toilet with my feet. I am also one of those people who clean the toilet seat when I’m done. It’s gross and rude to not do so.
One of the things that cause me heartache in public bathrooms is after I’m done washing my hands and I now have to touch the door to open it and walk out – the main door, not the stall door. I have sometimes lingered around for someone else to open it either from inside or outside. I just don’t want to touch things after washing my hands. Somebody, please tell me I’m not alone in this and you’re just like me.
When I’m done peeing and I’m washing my hands, I hang my bag over my body. But if it’s a satchel and has no long strap to hang it with, I pin it between my knees. No, I don’t like to put it on the bathroom sink either, although to be honest, I wouldn’t mind putting it on the sink in one of those fancy bathrooms because they’re always clean and dry.
Oh, speaking about things I cannot do in public bathrooms, can we talk about people who go in there with food and drinks? *PUKES* I can go in there with a drink as long as it’s in a bottle with its cap screwed on AND in my bag. I cannot go in there with say a disposable beverage cup from McDonald’s with the straw in there. It makes me feel like germs are going in through the straw. Or like the smell from someone’s poop is going into my drink.
At my former job, I would leave my bag(s) and drink on the bench in the hallway and go into the bathroom, and honestly, the bathroom was always clean. But I just couldn’t take my water bottle in there, although it was covered, but it was a huge bottle and wouldn’t fit in my bag. I basically preferred to risk having my entire bag stolen than to let it catch something int he bathroom.
Also, there are the people who for whatever reason – too much to eat/drink, upset belly, pregnancy, etc – have to throw up in a public bathroom. And when they go in there, they sit on the floor by the toilet or squat by it and they put their heads really close to the toilet bowl and put their bare hands on the seat. Uhm, what is wrong with you? What if someone with dysentery just finished emptying their loose stool in there? *SHIVERS AND PUKES* I just cannot can. I cannot can!!!
Sweet Potatoes, I know that you are my people, and I know that there must be at least one of you who has and understands my brand of crazy. So tell me about it in the comments! I KNOW I am not alone
Mine is closing the tap after washing my hands. I figured that since the hands were dirty before washing, how will I now close the tap after washing my hands seeing I used a dirty hand to open it in the first place
Not also forgetting the hands that have used the tap before I got there
My dear u r not alone. I even take my own craze home. My husband reckons I must start a cleaning business once I have retired. But the one I don’t do is flushing the toilet with my feet – that’s a bit OTT.
I cannot put a bag on the floor in the bathroom. I don’t like putting my bag on the floor anywhere tbh lol. I always leave my water bottle in my office’s breakroom if I have to take it with me to the commode. And I open the door with a paper towel, hold it open with my foot, then throw the paper towel in the trash. Worse case scenario, I push the door open with my elbow if it doesn’t pull or have a knob. I’ve seen way too many people rushing in and out of public restrooms without washing their hands to to touch anything that isn’t completely necessary.
Hahahaaahhaaaa. You flush the toilet with your feet😂. I think you’re alone on that one. I wont drop my bag on the floor anywhere though. If it cant sit on my thighs, it’ll stay hanging on my shoulder. Lol
I lock the door with tissue, flush the toilet with tissue, then reopen the door with tissue.
I turn on the the tap with a paper towel, then shut the tap with the paper towel I dry my hands with. Why would you use your hand to open the door? **shudders** use tissue or a paper towel.
OMG the idea of my bag on a toilet floor is making me feel sick. I bet people then put that same bag on their bed.
I’m super extra though, I don’t allow shoes in our home. I’ve seen too much spit on sidewalks, pee in public toilets etc, and I don’t want that tracked into my home and into my bed.
My public toilet routine:
-Walk in and take seat cover
-Wipe toilet seat with a big wad of tissue paper, throw it in and flush
-Put seat cover on seat
-Do my business
-Use my feet to flush
-Grab some toilet paper to open stall door with
-Proceed to washbasins and wash hands.
-Rinse the tap, leave a bit of water in one palm, turn off tap with the tip of a finger then use that leftover water to rinse off tip of finger
-Dry hands with paper towels
-Open main door with paper towel and aim the used paper towel back into the bin. I never miss 🙂
*my foot. Not my feet haha. That would be disastrous!!!!
Wawu for flushing toilets with the foot!!!I do the hold everything holdable with tissue and also think its gross to put any property of yours except your feet on the bathroom floor,but pray,those toilets with the round knobs on top of the water cistern/tank to flush,how do you flush those with your foot?i am curious.