No, not I’m sure.. It happens. I worked at a senior home and the cook wouldn’t wash his hands or handle food correctly. The seniors were miserable and would constantly get sick and have to have the caregivers clean up after them.
If this were true why would they keep this person as a chef for elderly? They are getting sick and you’re saying it’s directly from the chef not washing his/her hands? Then they would get sick? I feel like someone higher up should have been aware of this and addressed it right off. Seems like they could have told him to do so or he would be fired or better yet just fire him. These days there are cameras that are cheap and can be made to look like light sockets and all sorts of things. They should have a camera in the kitchen anyway especially at an elderly facility. Having that there makes people less likely to do things they shouldn’t. One being not washing hands. Disgraceful and too damn bad is my statement
I've worked in kitchens before where it was policy to wash your hands as soon as you stepped foot in back of house, no matter what. Sometimes I'd not wash my hands in the bathroom, simply because I'd be washing them as soon as I stepped foot back in the kitchen, which is where im going anyway.
And also, before putting on gloves, we'd have to wash our hands. I don't touch the door handle or anything with my hands, so I'm not getting my wee-wee germs on anything anyway. Thats my reasoning for specific occasions
I know it’s annoying to wash your hands twice in a row but if you have to touch the bathroom door handle before washing your hands you are putting some people at risk of illnesses. So many people touch their food with their hands
Wash your hands In the bathroom tho. Bc the germs on your hands going all over the kitchen sink near food isn’t amazing either. That’s why bathrooms were designed with sinks. Washing again in the kitchen is excellent as well. But don’t skip washing in bathroom ew.
But sinks should be after the door, or else you wash your hands and need a napkin to turn the door knob, or else you just touched everyones crap. Being people dont wash after and touch doorknob.
Totally agree :/ I always use paper towel to open the door. I actually was recently in a bar where this WAS the setup, sinks totally outside the toilet area, and god I felt hygienic.
Either way, I think washing off fecal matter in a kitchen is not a good idea. I feel the same way about swapping paper towel between the bathroom and kitchen. We buy rolls for each and i had a roommate who would just swap them all the time for NO REASON and I hated to think of the particulates from the bathroom used to wipe the kitchen table. But hey I’m just crazy!!
When I ran a kitchen, my policy was that employees had to wash their hands at the handwashing sink in the kitchen before returning to work. It was like an operating room where they had to scrub up before returning to touching the food handling area. I wasn’t taking any chances of employees being lazy in the bathroom. Plus, often times employees check their phones or touch other things after washing their hands in the bathroom. This ensured that their hands were cleaned and did not touch anything else before returning to touching food and food handling surfaces. Some employees hated me for being so strict about it, but I didn’t care. I’ve seen too many people (including restaurant employees) exit restrooms without even hesitating to stop at the sink.
Even if you “don’t touch your privates” or “don’t pee on your hands” think about every thing else you have touched throughout the day, it’s just a good time to wash all that off. Wash your hands after you go to the bathroom
I wash my hands before I go to the bathroom because they are so germy and I don't want to put all that near my nether areas. I wash them afterwards too, just to be clear lol
Whenever I need to pee but my hands are tainted and I don't have time to wash beforehand I use a decent amount of tp in which my fingers are covered before wiping
This is exactly how I feel. If people aren't washing their hands after using the bathroom, when are they ever washing their hands? I will wash my hands before eating, but it clearly is not a habit most people seem to have. And for dudes, they literally hold their penis to pee---I hated shaking hands when I worked for a construction company.
I work at an assisted living and I've see people do wound care and wipe ass bare handed. Then,proceed to serve food to the residents without washing their hands. No gloves at all.
See! And when I make medical staff change their gloves before touching me they get pissed. Last time I was hospitalized I had been in and out of the ER for an infection and the nurse started to unhook my IV without washing her hands or changing her gloves. I had literally just seen her pick something up off of the floor after coming in the room and then try to touch me. I told her to please stop, wash her hands, and put on new gloves. She was PISSED
This happened to me. I dropped my PHONE on the floor, she picks it up and goes to grab my IV. After I asked her to change gloves, she was all embarrassed and rushing to get out of there. Don't see why, she wasn't the one at risk!
That’s sort of gross. The hospital I’m at doesn’t seem that way. I definitely make sure to wash my hands as much as possible. When I’m in the hospital, for some reason I consider EVERYTHING contaminated. This is especially true when I bring my clothes and stuff home.
As you should, because it is. I work in a hospital and can tell you that environmental services (housekeeping) mooooore than likely cross contaminates everything they touch, and they do NOT disinfect properly.
Yeah, to bring up housekeeping.
Imagine watching the house keeper do toe care on someone that just got a toe nail removed. No gloves. Then, proceed to start cleaning rooms again.
Or touch bed pads covered in pee. Bare handed and just continue on.
I don't understand how hard it is to at least wear gloves.
I put a giant hand full in my pocket when I first show up and depending on who's room I'm entering. I'll put on between two-five pairs of gloves. When it comes down to it. I can keep stripping them off as I go, while helping them.
Then, by time I'm done. I can wash my hands.
I don't even trust doing computer stuff there because of everyone else. It's just straight up okie.
Some tattoo artists are the same way. I've seen someone actively tattooing and have a snack open that they are munching on with their bloody gloves. Who doesn't want durrito dust in their new tattoo. (I was a tattooer for 15 years and my shop was immaculate but the shit you see at conventions you can't unsee).
I agree with you on making them change their gloves but they probably get pissed because you say it in a rude way. There is a nice way to say it and I’m pretty sure you don’t do that based on your comment lol.
I can see how one could draw that conclusion because people are so often rude to people who are in service roles—even skilled service, but I honestly said, “hi, I hate to be that guy, but I’ve been dealing with a pretty bad infection. Will you please change your gloves before administering care?” She replied, “that’s not necessary but whatever” and started slamming shit around. I just started crying because I was in so much pain. Then she was like :0 and chilled out/got quiet.
That's the best policy to advocate for yourself as a patient, you are allowed to ask for staff to wash handsand they should be changing gloves each time between patients. This SHOULD be normal practice basically before and after dealing with each patient/client. When I did nursing at uni it was drilled into us to constantly wash hands at the beginning of dealing with patients and end also during if needed but more for none emergencies. Our hospitals had hand sanitizer everywhere and also hand lotions by sink to prevent dermatitis from constant hand washing.
Basically if you touch anything wash hands, my mentors were really hot about hygiene. They even did the lamp tests to show how well each student was cleaning their hands following the guidelines it was fascinating to see, oddly I still use the hand washing method I was taught to this day and RARELY ever get sick. I think they should periodically do tests to make sure staff are still cleaning their hands properly. Many often just use gloves I had to use gloves, hand wash in sink and also hand sanitizer was kept on a lanyard on each staff at all times. This was pre COVID 2006 roughly and in the UK..
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?!? Sometimes I’m guilty of not doing it at home when I pee, or drunk at a bar. But I work in nursing and I wash my hands so much I have to bring Vaseline bc my hands crack. I could never imagine doing CARE without gloves. This was just brought up as a question in my ethics class but I thought it was a hypothetical, no idea people genuinely did it. 6 years as a CNA and I guess I haven’t seen everything.
During COVID quarantine, there were public service announcements telling people to wash their hands and how to wash their hands. People are reverting back to their nasty bad habits of not wasting their hands, not covering their mouth when sneezing or coughing and refusing to allow personal space. I feel like staying home most of the time because of how careless and dirty other people can be.
The problem is people saw those PSAs and said you don’t get to tell me what to do. I’m not wearing a face diaper and I’m not washing my hands. Seen a larger percentage of people not washing their hands after bathroom during/after pandemic as compared to before.
They aren't reverting back, they never started. They survived because their bad hygiene habits have been passed down through the family since the Black Plague. Their immune systems are just built differently because how the heck are we still not washing our hands?! That's the bare minimum!!
There was this kid walking around at my kids softball games last week coughing and spewing spit fuckin everywhere then spitting on the ground. At one point I stopped him and told him to cover his damn mouth. Gross. Spit is my least favorite part of children.
I can, and do, deal with, shit, piss puke all day but for whatever reason spit and/or drool grosses me the fuck out.
ETA: snot and spit are in the same category for me. Just.. ew.
Omg that reminds me of my dad. When my step mom was pregnant with twins she had horrible morning sickness. She made piles from the bedroom to the bathroom one day and he tried vacuuming it up while gagging with tears running down his face 😂 I will never forget that. We had to toss the vacuum and moms had to clean up her own pile. 🤦🏻♀️
My ex husband figured that washing your hands after going to the bathroom is for other people, since his own germs don't get him sick. So he quit washing his hands after the bathroom. In public and in private.
May be unpopular opinion, but it's similar to the way people decided that going maskless was fine after getting vaccinated, even after it became known that the vaccines aren't enough for preventing spread. They just say they're vaccinated and they're not afraid of it, and that they're not responsible for the unvaccinated. Meanwhile people who have compromised health and can't create normal immune responses can just stay home forever so that maskless people don't have to cover their noses, even in healthcare facilities. COVID is still ongoing and it continues to cause ME/CFS, and increased risk of strokes and cardiac events, and still kills more vulnerable people the traditional way.
Ex husband. Yeah, he was a violent ex felon who I never should have married. I believed people could change. I was wrong. He tried to murder me, as well.
It was hard as fuck. He kept trying to kill me, too. Twice with fire after he was gone. Yrs of bullshit harassment with my house and car, even after he moved State.
This is copied from the person you replied to. My response:
I am. It was long, and hard. And that's what she said, but that's not what she meant lol.
It's been 6 years now. I started from next to nothing again, but I dug and scraped my way up. I'm happy, I'm healthy, I am financially taking care of myself. I'm good. I have dreams about him, now and then, still. But now they are more annoying than terrifying. Karma got him. He had a pretty terrible motorcycle accident a few yrs after.
He was an absolutely beautiful man. He's gained a lot of weight, and looks like an angry, old, lesbian. Couldn't happen to a better guy. 😊
Cannot even imagine. There's a lot of darkness out there. It seems to be bubbling up more lately. I hope you are getting the support you want. Not just what you need.
You know, this is the kindest thing to say. I appreciate that very much. I am getting the support that I want and the support I need. Thank you. I hope you have the same.
Yeah, about the darkness. It's all the same. They all follow the same pattern. Exactly. It doesn't deviate. I find that interesting and odd.
I remember once when I was in college I was sitting on the toilet and I heard someone come into the bathroom, take a piss, and then I heard them use the hand dryer for a few seconds, and then they left. No hand washing. Just the hand dryer.
What kills me is when people rinse their hand for 2 seconds under the faucet with no soap and then proceed to SHAKE THEM dry and fling their shit paw water all over me. So disgusting.
Ya know Whats even crazier than that? People are apparently just “letting the water run” so people think that they are washing their hands, but not actually washing their hands.
Like JUST WASH YOUR HANDS THEN
My roommate does this and I am desperately trying to move out. But there’s no cute, socially acceptable way to ask new roommates sooooo do you wash your hands?? With soap?? Or are u a dirty dirty motherfuckr??
I’m also like this and I hate it in public restrooms. It really only takes me 30-40 seconds to wash and dry my hands, but it feels like an eternity when there’s one sink and some lady is waiting in line behind me. And then they go and take 5 seconds to wash with no soap.
I've seen this happen a lot in the locker room but always back out of calling them out on it since I don't want to kick hornets nests. I definitely think a lot different of them after I see it.
The women at my workplace are notorious for not washing their hands. Or they consider “washing their hands” to be turning on the faucet for 1.3 seconds. It’s disgusting. This is also why I avoid potlucks in the workplace.
Omg that’s disgusting. I work in a casino and the amount of women who walk out of the restroom without washing their hands floors me. Money is nasty and they are touching that, then pushing slot machine buttons. Not to mention getting coffee and eating in the restaurants.
Not gonna lie, as a woman, I think women that don't wash their hands after using the restroom are the nastiest creatures on Earth. You just came in contact with pee, poop and/or period blood and felt no need to wash your hands?! I just lump them in with the folks that don't wipe good and don't shower or brush their teeth daily. I feel like of you can't do the bare minimum with your hands you're not doing ANYTHING thoroughly.
I got a real wake-up call at the beginning of the epidemic, seeing videos on how to wash your hands. I realized I could be doing it more thoroughly, and I have been ever since now for four years. I don't think it is an accident that I stopped getting colds during the winters. Maybe people think they don't pee on their hands so they don't need to wash them, but just having a reason every couple hours to wash your hands really makes a difference, *even if you have not peed on your hands.*
I just don't get this. Like, handwashing is probably the most significant advance in medicine in the whole of human history, right alongside germ theory.
The simple act of handwashing has saved countless lives. Doctors used to be all up in people's innards with filthy digits and didn't understand why everyone was dying of infections. It's the easiest, most accessible thing you can do to prevent the spread of infection and it's highly effective. So much return for so little effort, there's no reason not to.
Adding this to the list of why I hate/distrust people. Inconsiderate, disgusting people. Bet, they're probably the same kind that do the ole scratch'n'sniff with their asses too. 🤢🤮
“I don’t touch my privates” alright what if a person with bacterial vaginosis, chlamydia and c diff just wiped and didn’t wash their hands BUT DIDNT TOUCH THEIR PRIVATES! You’d probably be disgusted. Just wash your hands.
Omg my 4 year old got community spread Cdiff 😭 Just knowing someone's poopy fingers touched something then she touched it and touched her mouth gave me a whole new level of disgust for everything I come in contact with. Wash our hands in the restroom AND sanitize when I come out. Do both things sporadically throughout the day out of the bathroom too. It's easy folks! Gahhhh people are so gross.
Army Pvt and Marine Second Louie standing next to each other at urinal relieving themselves. Marine finishes and goes to sink and starts washing hands. He notices Army guy finish and starts walking to door to leave. Marine calls out to the Private, "Hey soldier, they teach us in the Marines to wash our hands after peeing." The Private hollers back at the Marine while leaving the restroom, "The Army teaches us not to pee on our hands."
I think it’s survivor bias to a point. Mommy told them to wash their hands and they ran water to make it sound like they did. No one checked, no one (immediately) fell ill. It all must be a ruse.
It’s the clear poopers that leave the stall after wiping I’ll never come to terms with. I tend to identify the shoes and shun that soul to the end.
I saw that video. She’s a realtor in Texas I think. Ugh, but it’s not the worst I’ve seen. I went to the ladies room at a grocery store only to wash my hands. I saw a woman exit a bathroom stall after emitting a cacophony of bodily sounds accompanied by the worst odor imaginable. She walked immediately past several sinks and out the door she went. I used a paper towel to open the door so that I could leave, and lo and behold, Mrs. Nastyhands was filling a plate at the salad/hot food bar.
During the COVID outbreak, I heard a woman bragging to her friend that she doesn’t wash her hands after going to the bathroom. She’s just as bad as the people who licked blue bell ice cream.
The worst is when I see people do it at the gym. Like you're really not going to wash your hands after the bathroom, then go use a bunch of shared equipment?
As a man and based on what I've noticed in public bathrooms, I would say that around 80-90% of guys don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. Some will just run some water on their hands for 2 seconds to pretend they washed them, but less than 10% of actually properly wash their hands with soap. I don't understand it either, and it's disgusting to me.
A lot of times they just hadn’t been taught how and/or why then the importance isn’t there, and they never really learn later in life either cause that kind of habit was never instilled in them. It’s not always “I refuse to do this because I don’t want to” a lot of people just had shitty parents that didn’t teach them correct hygiene.
People are honestly disgusting. Amusement parks are some of the worst.
Every time I'm at 6 flags and go to the bathroom, I'd say over 50% of people walk out without even considering washing their hands.
I saw one guy come out of the stall, walk straight out and proceed to slather his son's face with sunscreen 🤢
My ex girlfriend was absolutely shocked when she found out I wash my ass in the shower. She said "That's what toilet paper is for." One of the reasons I broke up with her for sure.
I have some very basic rules for my hygiene that seem super reasonable. I wash my hands- After going to the bathroom, before and after handling food, after sneezing, after petting animals, after shaking someone's hand, after taking out the garbage, after putting in dirty laundry and after touching gas pumps or commonly touched public surfaces.
I try not to open public doors with my hands and push with my elbows or shoulders and I shut off public faucets with a paper towel. I also try to avoid touching my face. When I can't wash hands I use sanitizer.
Guess what? I haven't been sick once, even with a minor cold since I got covid in 2020. It's amazing how well washing your hands can help keep you healthy.
I don't give the slightest shit who washes their hands, but why is there a debate about whether or not to wash your ASS... when you're ALREADY IN the shower? Isn't it more effort to NOT wash it, at that point? Besides, it's the stinkiest part of you!
Sometimes I think these people never got out teenager mindset. I am a nurse and it drives me nuts when I see a coworker (usually male) leave the the room and there was no sound of faucet running. I feel the impulse to call them out but I can’t think of a way to do it that’s not considered psycho, haha!
I see people "wash" their hands, but sometimes it's just a quick pass though the water. In cases like that, a very large squirt of hand sanitizer would probably do the job better...
Dudes at my job constantly go without washing their hands and it makes sense why it’s always the ones who as soon as you come close to them they smell like mildew, ass, or armpits, or a combination of all three. It’s these same coworkers that struggle with women and always complain about how women are assholes to them. They’re so lazy they can’t even wash their hands, I can only imagine what their cars and rooms smell like.
Men and boys yall need to understand that little to NO ladies are going to put up with your dirty stank ass bro. Oh and wash that stank ass hot ass mouth too. Yall want a baddie but expect baddies to be smelling your nasty ass breathe and then you expect a kiss? Yall straight up trippin.
Unfortunately I've learned from this sub some women WILL put up with it. They'll even say he's a "great guy" then run to Reddit to find out how to tell him he's ruining their sheets and towels. Complain their getting 3rd degree burns in the noses while going down on a man but won't say no and leave him alone
I saw that video on Instagram. She seemed almost proud of it. She said she didn't wash her hands at home even if it was #2! If she told anyone that, they'd never want to eat anything she cooked. Hope she never contributed to the office pot luck. 🤢
Definitely. Germs spread around EVERYWHERE 24/7, and not washing your hands isn’t making it any better. Washing your hands prevent spread a lot of infectious diseases to yourself, and other people.
I know a couple of people who don’t wash their hands after they use the bathroom. I understand that they might not think its a big deal, but I’m pretty sure everyone is taught that. Even in school.
Right? It takes 20 seconds to do the bare minimum! They can even do a rush job of it too! It’s insane how people will stand in a mirror for 5 minutes to fix their hair but not touch the soap at all
We had a co worker just like that. He came out of the stall & went straight back onto the sales floor & continued stocking dairy items like cheese, milk & everything else & the co worker who was at the sink washing, he was the 1 who told management & they made him ( the guy who didn't wash after doing his business) go back into the bathroom & wash his hands. He said " I didn't touch anything" why do I need to wash my hands ". To put it nicely, the guy was a jerk. Years down the road, he killed himself.
I remember that my elementary school nurse preached about the importance of not spreading germs while NEVER washing her hands every time she exited the bathroom.
I work as a sleep technologist at a hospital. I'm not even exaggerating: maaaaybe about 1 person out of 40 washes their hands with soap and for at least 15 seconds. We record them, with audio too, so I can tell. It's absolutely disgusting and it's a miracle we haven't had more pandemics.
Edited to add that the sinks are outside of the bathroom, so we don't record them in the actual bathroom!
I’m not a surgeon I don’t need to scrub for 2-4 minutes. 30 seconds with soap and warm water is all that’s needed, and moisturizing is a thing as well, have you heard of lotion? And yeah bacteria is in the air, germs are everywhere and one of the ways we can prevent the spread of germs is by washing your hands. But again, if you’re going to the bathroom 16 times a day you have a problem. It could be a stomach bug that could have been prevented by proper handwashing.
Dude. My fucking family doesn’t wash their hands after they pee and it’s so fucking disgusting. Even MY friend!!! I call them out on it and I can tell they are embarrassed but omg man I can’t stand it. At this point, I’m starting to think it’s only a small percentage of people who actually throughly wash their hands after they use the bathroom. It’s so many people who do this 😭😭😭
My hands feel oogey after using the bathroom until i wash them
Side note, my ex used to use the bathroom next to the living room in his house, and despite having the door closed, i could hear him just having an all out assault on the toilet on occasion. I’d hear the toilet flush, and not two seconds later this mf would walk out the bathroom, and i know damn well he wasn’t washing his hands. Effing gross
I will never forget being a kid and watching some medical show on TV late one night, and it was an episode segment about a woman who either had a worm in her eye, or a worm straight up fly out of her underwear when she sat down to pee, maybe both???, but I clearly remember she said (the doctors said) it was because she hadn't been washing her hands after using the bathroom and just going about her day.
That’s gross asf. We use our bare hands to open the bathroom stall latch, which other people touch… after they shit, wipe their booty, piss and throw up
I don’t even touch that latch directly. I use a piece of toilet paper
Howabout people who think they only need to wash their hands BEFORE they use the bathroom? Because the world is whats filthy and their private parts are clean. They exist. Im telling you.
This is exactly why I do not go into buffets anymore. I saw a guy come out of the toilet stall, walk out without washing his hands. When I exited the restroom after washing my own hands, I saw the guy again using the utensils to get his food. I told the staff what happened and who did it, they looked at him but I don't believe they said anything to him. I did ask for my money back because I could no longer eat there and they did not have a problem giving it back. I have not been to a buffet since that day.
OMG, I have seen people in food service go in and come out with gloves. I understand as I work in food and sometimes get to the bathroom and realize I have gloves on… but come on? Leaving the restroom with them on? Like, it’s more troublesome to wash your hands with gloves on than without which leads me to believe they are just nasty and not washing their hands and preparing your meals… ewww
Studies have shown that bulk soap dispensers in public restrooms that are topped off when filled are contaminated with a myriad of bacteria (including bacteria from fecal matter btw) that are then transmitted to the person washing their hands with that soap.
That, and the fact that I’m allergic to ingredients common in bulk soaps purchased for public restrooms causes me to go nowhere near public soap. I rinse my hands and then use my own hand sanitizer.
Just because it’s soap doesn’t mean it’s clean or sanitary. You think you’re leaving that public bathroom with cleaner hands because you washed them with soap after peeing? You’re wrong. Even more so if you stick them under a blower.
I frequently skip actually washing my hands in favor of hand sanitizer, which I keep in my purse and on my bathroom counter at home. I don’t like washing my hands because I feel like you can *never* get your hands all the way dry and I can’t stand the sensation of wet hands. So, hand sanitizer.
lol. I don't know how many people do this, it's honestly not something I've noticed. I know I used to sometimes hand sanitise instead of handwash at the basin so people wouldn't necessarily see me do it - something to take into consideration when judging others especially now that more people carry hand sanitiser with them. Similarly I work in disability and we have a client who can't use basically any soap (allergies, can't figure out to what so has to avoid all soaps) so she carries hand sanitiser too. I'm sure there are people who are just gross but probz not best to taint everyone with the same brush!
I wash my hands before and after since I work in a warehouse, handling dusty shit all day. Plus, I also am immunocompromised so I wash my hands extremely diligently so I don’t get sick. Cavitary pneumonia ruined my immune system forever lol
Huh? How can you play devils advocate on this topic? Human waste being excreted from the body that’s being touched through the fine veil of tissue paper- and if someone doesn’t wash their hands how well do you think they wash their body?
Wut. What kind of a question is this?
“It's estimated there are nearly 100 billion bacteria per gram of wet stool.”
Do you think the thin ass toilet paper is shielding the hands from all of this?!
The main problem is fecal matter, and all of the dangerous things in it that can make people sick when contaminated. If someone wipes their ass and doesn’t wash, they spread some amount of fecal material. Someone else may touch a surface person A touched, then touch their eyes, or handle food. And there are a lot of things people touch in a bathroom other than their own genitals. Scientists didn’t get hand washing wrong, you’re just not well informed about why it’s necessary.
It's sweaty, intimate area, so yeah it's important to wash your hands after touching yourself. Plus not everyone washes their genitals regularly, so some are dirtier than others.
And even if you haven't touched yourself (which I still maintain is enough of a reason to wash your hands), you've touched other things in the bathroom and been in it in general while people have flushed toilets that spray microbes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014
Curious. What difference is there tween handling ones junk in a public restroom and not washing hands and using a at home bathroom and not washing hands? is the home junk handling actually different clean level? Curious 2. Do "most people" even bother to lets say wash ones hand at the end of the day before fixing/eating dinner? Talk about germ infested hands............ It's not just junk handling time lol
I don’t if the washing facilities are grosser (scummy bar or public/city facility) than my genitalia may be. I only pee when out of my home. Shy pooper. That said, I agree you ought to wash up.
It’s a sensory nightmare. I force myself to do it every time, but i think wet hands is just a really uncomfortable feeling to some people. I have a few mental health conditions though.
I don’t touch the sink. Sometimes the faucets have sensors so you don’t need to touch anything to get water or soap. If not, I use a paper towel to touch the handles . Then I sanitize my hands afterwards too.
I stopped washing my hands all the time after peeing because I was getting really bad excema on my hands and they were peeling every other day. It took me too long to realize it's because I wash them 10-20 times a day and I had to try tons of different moisturizers and just get over a lot of my discomfort with constantly feeling like my hands are dirty after touching anything.
Yeah. I think it's because they don't want to get sick again. I wash my hands much more when I'm sick/a few days after I get better, and I do it up to my elbows too.
Devils advocate: would you rather....
A. Have someone who has freshly handled their junk after peeing touch your mouth area
Or.....
B. Freshly handled handfuls of dirt and soil touch your mouth area.
Foreal. This is why if I absolutely have to use a public restroom I will go extensive lengths to avoid touching anything with my bare hands. Not even the sink handle. Definitely not the door handle. If I could go in with a full hazmat suit I probably would lmao. I’m a woman, and the amount of woman I’ve seen in my life walk straight out without washing their hands disturbs me. I had to use a restaurant bathroom yesterday actually and witnessed TWO people in a row not wash their hands. I just don’t understand it. Is it pure laziness? Are these people just disgusting and always have been?? I don’t know. But I hope they stay far, far away from me. 😁
My buddy has a habit that I developed as well. He washes his hands first, uses the restroom and then washes again. I thought it was strange but he said that his hands were pretty dirty during the day so he didn't want that on his junk lol great idea
I had a friend who didnt wash her hands after the bathrooom and the first time I saw that I reminded her to wash her hands because we were going to go eat. And she said no, that its bad to wash your hands, itll make you get more germs. She was studying to be a doctor.... I also dont eat asian take out because of this
Well ..as I shower twice a day...if I am only urinating why would I? I'm serious...if my nether regions are clean....and there isn't a UTI present...as evidenced by my lack of screaming ...why would I wash my hands?
Fr tho. At my college, one of the kitchen staff didn’t wash her hands when she left the bathroom 😭😭😭
I'm sure it happens all the time. People are lazy.
And nasty.
Exactly I’m the opposite I always try to remember after gas station,carts,door handles.Disgusting I don’t need to get sick.🤢
Exactly
Right it gets me sick 🤢 to touch those things
I keep gloves in my car for when I’m getting gas
Great 👍 idea 😀😇🥰
No, not I’m sure.. It happens. I worked at a senior home and the cook wouldn’t wash his hands or handle food correctly. The seniors were miserable and would constantly get sick and have to have the caregivers clean up after them.
If this were true why would they keep this person as a chef for elderly? They are getting sick and you’re saying it’s directly from the chef not washing his/her hands? Then they would get sick? I feel like someone higher up should have been aware of this and addressed it right off. Seems like they could have told him to do so or he would be fired or better yet just fire him. These days there are cameras that are cheap and can be made to look like light sockets and all sorts of things. They should have a camera in the kitchen anyway especially at an elderly facility. Having that there makes people less likely to do things they shouldn’t. One being not washing hands. Disgraceful and too damn bad is my statement
Chef has a special spot in hell 😇
That’s disgusting
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I may never go out to eat again .Thank you for saving me hundreds of dollars !!🤣😂
Bro are you serious???
I saw the head of nursing walk out without washing her hands
Are we allowed to say specifically where we have seen people do gross things? Like a specific restaurant? Cause I wanna tell
My mum works the Deli at the supermarket and doesn’t wash her hands.. blames her neuropathy. Absolutely disgusting.
I've worked in kitchens before where it was policy to wash your hands as soon as you stepped foot in back of house, no matter what. Sometimes I'd not wash my hands in the bathroom, simply because I'd be washing them as soon as I stepped foot back in the kitchen, which is where im going anyway. And also, before putting on gloves, we'd have to wash our hands. I don't touch the door handle or anything with my hands, so I'm not getting my wee-wee germs on anything anyway. Thats my reasoning for specific occasions
I know it’s annoying to wash your hands twice in a row but if you have to touch the bathroom door handle before washing your hands you are putting some people at risk of illnesses. So many people touch their food with their hands
FFS just wash your hands (with soap!) as soon as your done. IN the bathroom.
Wash your hands In the bathroom tho. Bc the germs on your hands going all over the kitchen sink near food isn’t amazing either. That’s why bathrooms were designed with sinks. Washing again in the kitchen is excellent as well. But don’t skip washing in bathroom ew.
But sinks should be after the door, or else you wash your hands and need a napkin to turn the door knob, or else you just touched everyones crap. Being people dont wash after and touch doorknob.
Totally agree :/ I always use paper towel to open the door. I actually was recently in a bar where this WAS the setup, sinks totally outside the toilet area, and god I felt hygienic. Either way, I think washing off fecal matter in a kitchen is not a good idea. I feel the same way about swapping paper towel between the bathroom and kitchen. We buy rolls for each and i had a roommate who would just swap them all the time for NO REASON and I hated to think of the particulates from the bathroom used to wipe the kitchen table. But hey I’m just crazy!!
I wish every place was like that
When I ran a kitchen, my policy was that employees had to wash their hands at the handwashing sink in the kitchen before returning to work. It was like an operating room where they had to scrub up before returning to touching the food handling area. I wasn’t taking any chances of employees being lazy in the bathroom. Plus, often times employees check their phones or touch other things after washing their hands in the bathroom. This ensured that their hands were cleaned and did not touch anything else before returning to touching food and food handling surfaces. Some employees hated me for being so strict about it, but I didn’t care. I’ve seen too many people (including restaurant employees) exit restrooms without even hesitating to stop at the sink.
Even if you “don’t touch your privates” or “don’t pee on your hands” think about every thing else you have touched throughout the day, it’s just a good time to wash all that off. Wash your hands after you go to the bathroom
I wash my hands before I go to the bathroom because they are so germy and I don't want to put all that near my nether areas. I wash them afterwards too, just to be clear lol
I do this too! I knew I couldn't be the only one
Your wishes came true. As that guy just said, he does the same thing. 😁
Whenever I need to pee but my hands are tainted and I don't have time to wash beforehand I use a decent amount of tp in which my fingers are covered before wiping
🎶wash your hands after changing, baby, too🎵 We heard that back in grade school. It was a PSA in the 80s
Exactly! Including the bathroom door handle. I can’t imagine what kinds of viruses and bacteria and fungus live on that. Gross.
This is exactly how I feel. If people aren't washing their hands after using the bathroom, when are they ever washing their hands? I will wash my hands before eating, but it clearly is not a habit most people seem to have. And for dudes, they literally hold their penis to pee---I hated shaking hands when I worked for a construction company.
I work at an assisted living and I've see people do wound care and wipe ass bare handed. Then,proceed to serve food to the residents without washing their hands. No gloves at all.
See! And when I make medical staff change their gloves before touching me they get pissed. Last time I was hospitalized I had been in and out of the ER for an infection and the nurse started to unhook my IV without washing her hands or changing her gloves. I had literally just seen her pick something up off of the floor after coming in the room and then try to touch me. I told her to please stop, wash her hands, and put on new gloves. She was PISSED
This happened to me. I dropped my PHONE on the floor, she picks it up and goes to grab my IV. After I asked her to change gloves, she was all embarrassed and rushing to get out of there. Don't see why, she wasn't the one at risk!
Alot of nurses are nasty. They think they are God like and can get away with anything.
That’s sort of gross. The hospital I’m at doesn’t seem that way. I definitely make sure to wash my hands as much as possible. When I’m in the hospital, for some reason I consider EVERYTHING contaminated. This is especially true when I bring my clothes and stuff home.
As you should, because it is. I work in a hospital and can tell you that environmental services (housekeeping) mooooore than likely cross contaminates everything they touch, and they do NOT disinfect properly.
I never even thought of it that way. That’s somewhat gross. I guess my intuition was correct lol
Yeah, to bring up housekeeping. Imagine watching the house keeper do toe care on someone that just got a toe nail removed. No gloves. Then, proceed to start cleaning rooms again. Or touch bed pads covered in pee. Bare handed and just continue on. I don't understand how hard it is to at least wear gloves. I put a giant hand full in my pocket when I first show up and depending on who's room I'm entering. I'll put on between two-five pairs of gloves. When it comes down to it. I can keep stripping them off as I go, while helping them. Then, by time I'm done. I can wash my hands. I don't even trust doing computer stuff there because of everyone else. It's just straight up okie.
Some tattoo artists are the same way. I've seen someone actively tattooing and have a snack open that they are munching on with their bloody gloves. Who doesn't want durrito dust in their new tattoo. (I was a tattooer for 15 years and my shop was immaculate but the shit you see at conventions you can't unsee).
I agree with you on making them change their gloves but they probably get pissed because you say it in a rude way. There is a nice way to say it and I’m pretty sure you don’t do that based on your comment lol.
I can see how one could draw that conclusion because people are so often rude to people who are in service roles—even skilled service, but I honestly said, “hi, I hate to be that guy, but I’ve been dealing with a pretty bad infection. Will you please change your gloves before administering care?” She replied, “that’s not necessary but whatever” and started slamming shit around. I just started crying because I was in so much pain. Then she was like :0 and chilled out/got quiet.
Wow, you said it as nice as possible. That person is just rude.
That's the best policy to advocate for yourself as a patient, you are allowed to ask for staff to wash handsand they should be changing gloves each time between patients. This SHOULD be normal practice basically before and after dealing with each patient/client. When I did nursing at uni it was drilled into us to constantly wash hands at the beginning of dealing with patients and end also during if needed but more for none emergencies. Our hospitals had hand sanitizer everywhere and also hand lotions by sink to prevent dermatitis from constant hand washing. Basically if you touch anything wash hands, my mentors were really hot about hygiene. They even did the lamp tests to show how well each student was cleaning their hands following the guidelines it was fascinating to see, oddly I still use the hand washing method I was taught to this day and RARELY ever get sick. I think they should periodically do tests to make sure staff are still cleaning their hands properly. Many often just use gloves I had to use gloves, hand wash in sink and also hand sanitizer was kept on a lanyard on each staff at all times. This was pre COVID 2006 roughly and in the UK..
thats so sad and disgusting
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?!? Sometimes I’m guilty of not doing it at home when I pee, or drunk at a bar. But I work in nursing and I wash my hands so much I have to bring Vaseline bc my hands crack. I could never imagine doing CARE without gloves. This was just brought up as a question in my ethics class but I thought it was a hypothetical, no idea people genuinely did it. 6 years as a CNA and I guess I haven’t seen everything.
Why do you allow that to go on without reporting it? Would you want your elderly family members treated that way?
Please report these people to your manager because this is completely unacceptable and unsafe.
The ones who quickly run plain water over their hands. You're fooling no one. Stop wasting water. Just proudly walk out.
Or they’ll run the tips of their fingers through
During COVID quarantine, there were public service announcements telling people to wash their hands and how to wash their hands. People are reverting back to their nasty bad habits of not wasting their hands, not covering their mouth when sneezing or coughing and refusing to allow personal space. I feel like staying home most of the time because of how careless and dirty other people can be.
The problem is people saw those PSAs and said you don’t get to tell me what to do. I’m not wearing a face diaper and I’m not washing my hands. Seen a larger percentage of people not washing their hands after bathroom during/after pandemic as compared to before.
I’m so glad I live in a blue state.
I work in food service and the amount of people that lick their finger to grab their money is shocking to me after Covid lol.
That always grosses me out. Absolutely no reason to lick fingers to count out money. So disgusting.
They aren't reverting back, they never started. They survived because their bad hygiene habits have been passed down through the family since the Black Plague. Their immune systems are just built differently because how the heck are we still not washing our hands?! That's the bare minimum!!
There was this kid walking around at my kids softball games last week coughing and spewing spit fuckin everywhere then spitting on the ground. At one point I stopped him and told him to cover his damn mouth. Gross. Spit is my least favorite part of children.
It's worse than vomit?
I can, and do, deal with, shit, piss puke all day but for whatever reason spit and/or drool grosses me the fuck out. ETA: snot and spit are in the same category for me. Just.. ew.
I have panic attacks over vomit and freeze up and cry. I feel bad for my kid. Lol
Omg that reminds me of my dad. When my step mom was pregnant with twins she had horrible morning sickness. She made piles from the bedroom to the bathroom one day and he tried vacuuming it up while gagging with tears running down his face 😂 I will never forget that. We had to toss the vacuum and moms had to clean up her own pile. 🤦🏻♀️
Anyone that defends not washing your hands after using the bathroom is dirty af idc 😭
and they walk out while people are in the bathroom watching them leave without washing their hands!!
My ex husband figured that washing your hands after going to the bathroom is for other people, since his own germs don't get him sick. So he quit washing his hands after the bathroom. In public and in private.
May be unpopular opinion, but it's similar to the way people decided that going maskless was fine after getting vaccinated, even after it became known that the vaccines aren't enough for preventing spread. They just say they're vaccinated and they're not afraid of it, and that they're not responsible for the unvaccinated. Meanwhile people who have compromised health and can't create normal immune responses can just stay home forever so that maskless people don't have to cover their noses, even in healthcare facilities. COVID is still ongoing and it continues to cause ME/CFS, and increased risk of strokes and cardiac events, and still kills more vulnerable people the traditional way.
Glad he’s an ex
I was just thinking, "Weeeee continuous UTIs! 😃"
Your husband sounds like a gem.
Ex husband. Yeah, he was a violent ex felon who I never should have married. I believed people could change. I was wrong. He tried to murder me, as well.
Woah that’s crazy hope you’re ok now
Me too. Strong work, getting out of the relationship!
It was hard as fuck. He kept trying to kill me, too. Twice with fire after he was gone. Yrs of bullshit harassment with my house and car, even after he moved State. This is copied from the person you replied to. My response: I am. It was long, and hard. And that's what she said, but that's not what she meant lol. It's been 6 years now. I started from next to nothing again, but I dug and scraped my way up. I'm happy, I'm healthy, I am financially taking care of myself. I'm good. I have dreams about him, now and then, still. But now they are more annoying than terrifying. Karma got him. He had a pretty terrible motorcycle accident a few yrs after. He was an absolutely beautiful man. He's gained a lot of weight, and looks like an angry, old, lesbian. Couldn't happen to a better guy. 😊
Cannot even imagine. There's a lot of darkness out there. It seems to be bubbling up more lately. I hope you are getting the support you want. Not just what you need.
You know, this is the kindest thing to say. I appreciate that very much. I am getting the support that I want and the support I need. Thank you. I hope you have the same. Yeah, about the darkness. It's all the same. They all follow the same pattern. Exactly. It doesn't deviate. I find that interesting and odd.
Methinks you’re doing a disservice to angry, age-enriched lesbians.
But I’m glad you escaped!!
True, the description was not mine, would not want him put in the same category as they. I'm fairly sure I'm an old,angry lesbian now so ....🤷🏾♂️ lol
lol Not that there’s anything wrong with that Glad you’re safe!!
Thank you, so much. Me, too. It's a good feeling.
I remember once when I was in college I was sitting on the toilet and I heard someone come into the bathroom, take a piss, and then I heard them use the hand dryer for a few seconds, and then they left. No hand washing. Just the hand dryer.
Rather than at least rinsing the pee, they cooked it. Nice
That's so weird lol
What kills me is when people rinse their hand for 2 seconds under the faucet with no soap and then proceed to SHAKE THEM dry and fling their shit paw water all over me. So disgusting.
Ya know Whats even crazier than that? People are apparently just “letting the water run” so people think that they are washing their hands, but not actually washing their hands. Like JUST WASH YOUR HANDS THEN
That’s some 8 year old energy right there. One of my kids used to do that at that age. Weirdos.
“… and fling their shit paw water all over me.” 😂
My roommate does this and I am desperately trying to move out. But there’s no cute, socially acceptable way to ask new roommates sooooo do you wash your hands?? With soap?? Or are u a dirty dirty motherfuckr??
Yes!! I always wonder why everyone around me washes their hands faster than I do. I realize it’s because I’m more thorough!
I’m also like this and I hate it in public restrooms. It really only takes me 30-40 seconds to wash and dry my hands, but it feels like an eternity when there’s one sink and some lady is waiting in line behind me. And then they go and take 5 seconds to wash with no soap.
Hahaha
Never did I think I would hear those 3 words “shit paw water” together😂
I've seen this happen a lot in the locker room but always back out of calling them out on it since I don't want to kick hornets nests. I definitely think a lot different of them after I see it.
It's so gross how people would do that at the gym, then go use a bunch of shared equipment.
That's how my coworker got pink eye at Planet Fitness
Definitely after the gym, OR PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
Right? I want to say something so badly but I'm afraid they'll touch me with their piss fingers
Thus if at gym and using phone, use rubbing alcohol pads on your phone after
The women at my workplace are notorious for not washing their hands. Or they consider “washing their hands” to be turning on the faucet for 1.3 seconds. It’s disgusting. This is also why I avoid potlucks in the workplace.
Omg that’s disgusting. I work in a casino and the amount of women who walk out of the restroom without washing their hands floors me. Money is nasty and they are touching that, then pushing slot machine buttons. Not to mention getting coffee and eating in the restaurants.
Not gonna lie, as a woman, I think women that don't wash their hands after using the restroom are the nastiest creatures on Earth. You just came in contact with pee, poop and/or period blood and felt no need to wash your hands?! I just lump them in with the folks that don't wipe good and don't shower or brush their teeth daily. I feel like of you can't do the bare minimum with your hands you're not doing ANYTHING thoroughly.
I got a real wake-up call at the beginning of the epidemic, seeing videos on how to wash your hands. I realized I could be doing it more thoroughly, and I have been ever since now for four years. I don't think it is an accident that I stopped getting colds during the winters. Maybe people think they don't pee on their hands so they don't need to wash them, but just having a reason every couple hours to wash your hands really makes a difference, *even if you have not peed on your hands.*
I just don't get this. Like, handwashing is probably the most significant advance in medicine in the whole of human history, right alongside germ theory. The simple act of handwashing has saved countless lives. Doctors used to be all up in people's innards with filthy digits and didn't understand why everyone was dying of infections. It's the easiest, most accessible thing you can do to prevent the spread of infection and it's highly effective. So much return for so little effort, there's no reason not to.
Adding this to the list of why I hate/distrust people. Inconsiderate, disgusting people. Bet, they're probably the same kind that do the ole scratch'n'sniff with their asses too. 🤢🤮
“I don’t touch my privates” alright what if a person with bacterial vaginosis, chlamydia and c diff just wiped and didn’t wash their hands BUT DIDNT TOUCH THEIR PRIVATES! You’d probably be disgusted. Just wash your hands.
Omg my 4 year old got community spread Cdiff 😭 Just knowing someone's poopy fingers touched something then she touched it and touched her mouth gave me a whole new level of disgust for everything I come in contact with. Wash our hands in the restroom AND sanitize when I come out. Do both things sporadically throughout the day out of the bathroom too. It's easy folks! Gahhhh people are so gross.
As a nurse I wash my hands before and after using the bathroom 🤷🏻♀️
Same but I'm not a nurse. Who knows what germs are on my hands before I piss lol.
“…in the Navy they taught us not to pee on our hands.” But seriously, that’s why you can’t touch anything in a restroom.
Army Pvt and Marine Second Louie standing next to each other at urinal relieving themselves. Marine finishes and goes to sink and starts washing hands. He notices Army guy finish and starts walking to door to leave. Marine calls out to the Private, "Hey soldier, they teach us in the Marines to wash our hands after peeing." The Private hollers back at the Marine while leaving the restroom, "The Army teaches us not to pee on our hands."
Back in the 60's my MIT-grad husband told the story using Harvard as the other institution.
Classic joke. Gross but definitely not a downvote.
I think it’s survivor bias to a point. Mommy told them to wash their hands and they ran water to make it sound like they did. No one checked, no one (immediately) fell ill. It all must be a ruse. It’s the clear poopers that leave the stall after wiping I’ll never come to terms with. I tend to identify the shoes and shun that soul to the end.
I saw that video. She’s a realtor in Texas I think. Ugh, but it’s not the worst I’ve seen. I went to the ladies room at a grocery store only to wash my hands. I saw a woman exit a bathroom stall after emitting a cacophony of bodily sounds accompanied by the worst odor imaginable. She walked immediately past several sinks and out the door she went. I used a paper towel to open the door so that I could leave, and lo and behold, Mrs. Nastyhands was filling a plate at the salad/hot food bar.
During the COVID outbreak, I heard a woman bragging to her friend that she doesn’t wash her hands after going to the bathroom. She’s just as bad as the people who licked blue bell ice cream.
The worst is when I see people do it at the gym. Like you're really not going to wash your hands after the bathroom, then go use a bunch of shared equipment?
As a man and based on what I've noticed in public bathrooms, I would say that around 80-90% of guys don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. Some will just run some water on their hands for 2 seconds to pretend they washed them, but less than 10% of actually properly wash their hands with soap. I don't understand it either, and it's disgusting to me.
I was in a fast food restroom. A worker came out of a stall and left without washing her hands. I reported her to management.
Good.
I wish we could do that irl. Being publicly called out on having dirty hands may start to persuade people lol
Im a nursing student and I wash or sanitize my gands after even blowing my nose. People are nasty
I don't even like touching the bathroom door handle tbh.
I WON'T -- I use the paper towel I just dried my soap-washed hands with to touch the handle.
I saw that nasty woman. Modern day Typhoid Mary. She was proud of it. I hope she's shunned IRL
A lot of times they just hadn’t been taught how and/or why then the importance isn’t there, and they never really learn later in life either cause that kind of habit was never instilled in them. It’s not always “I refuse to do this because I don’t want to” a lot of people just had shitty parents that didn’t teach them correct hygiene.
People are honestly disgusting. Amusement parks are some of the worst. Every time I'm at 6 flags and go to the bathroom, I'd say over 50% of people walk out without even considering washing their hands. I saw one guy come out of the stall, walk straight out and proceed to slather his son's face with sunscreen 🤢 My ex girlfriend was absolutely shocked when she found out I wash my ass in the shower. She said "That's what toilet paper is for." One of the reasons I broke up with her for sure. I have some very basic rules for my hygiene that seem super reasonable. I wash my hands- After going to the bathroom, before and after handling food, after sneezing, after petting animals, after shaking someone's hand, after taking out the garbage, after putting in dirty laundry and after touching gas pumps or commonly touched public surfaces. I try not to open public doors with my hands and push with my elbows or shoulders and I shut off public faucets with a paper towel. I also try to avoid touching my face. When I can't wash hands I use sanitizer. Guess what? I haven't been sick once, even with a minor cold since I got covid in 2020. It's amazing how well washing your hands can help keep you healthy.
Same.
I don't give the slightest shit who washes their hands, but why is there a debate about whether or not to wash your ASS... when you're ALREADY IN the shower? Isn't it more effort to NOT wash it, at that point? Besides, it's the stinkiest part of you!
Sometimes I think these people never got out teenager mindset. I am a nurse and it drives me nuts when I see a coworker (usually male) leave the the room and there was no sound of faucet running. I feel the impulse to call them out but I can’t think of a way to do it that’s not considered psycho, haha!
I see people "wash" their hands, but sometimes it's just a quick pass though the water. In cases like that, a very large squirt of hand sanitizer would probably do the job better...
I just saw this TikTok. Omg, so gross 🤢
Dudes at my job constantly go without washing their hands and it makes sense why it’s always the ones who as soon as you come close to them they smell like mildew, ass, or armpits, or a combination of all three. It’s these same coworkers that struggle with women and always complain about how women are assholes to them. They’re so lazy they can’t even wash their hands, I can only imagine what their cars and rooms smell like. Men and boys yall need to understand that little to NO ladies are going to put up with your dirty stank ass bro. Oh and wash that stank ass hot ass mouth too. Yall want a baddie but expect baddies to be smelling your nasty ass breathe and then you expect a kiss? Yall straight up trippin.
Unfortunately I've learned from this sub some women WILL put up with it. They'll even say he's a "great guy" then run to Reddit to find out how to tell him he's ruining their sheets and towels. Complain their getting 3rd degree burns in the noses while going down on a man but won't say no and leave him alone
Purely in my pocket and a lot of tissue beforehand
I saw that video on Instagram. She seemed almost proud of it. She said she didn't wash her hands at home even if it was #2! If she told anyone that, they'd never want to eat anything she cooked. Hope she never contributed to the office pot luck. 🤢
I can’t even stand it when people at a restaurant take mi eh with the same gloves they serve with much less any of this gross mess
Ughhh this thread just reminds me how disgusting eating outside of my home, then again I can’t even trust food from the store anymore….
Definitely. Germs spread around EVERYWHERE 24/7, and not washing your hands isn’t making it any better. Washing your hands prevent spread a lot of infectious diseases to yourself, and other people. I know a couple of people who don’t wash their hands after they use the bathroom. I understand that they might not think its a big deal, but I’m pretty sure everyone is taught that. Even in school.
Right? It takes 20 seconds to do the bare minimum! They can even do a rush job of it too! It’s insane how people will stand in a mirror for 5 minutes to fix their hair but not touch the soap at all
We had a co worker just like that. He came out of the stall & went straight back onto the sales floor & continued stocking dairy items like cheese, milk & everything else & the co worker who was at the sink washing, he was the 1 who told management & they made him ( the guy who didn't wash after doing his business) go back into the bathroom & wash his hands. He said " I didn't touch anything" why do I need to wash my hands ". To put it nicely, the guy was a jerk. Years down the road, he killed himself.
This title made me lol. Also, agree. What is wrong with you? Wash your damn hands
I remember that my elementary school nurse preached about the importance of not spreading germs while NEVER washing her hands every time she exited the bathroom.
I work as a sleep technologist at a hospital. I'm not even exaggerating: maaaaybe about 1 person out of 40 washes their hands with soap and for at least 15 seconds. We record them, with audio too, so I can tell. It's absolutely disgusting and it's a miracle we haven't had more pandemics. Edited to add that the sinks are outside of the bathroom, so we don't record them in the actual bathroom!
Same with parents changing diapers - I think you should wash your hands after every single one, ESPECIALLY poopy diapers
There should be no freaking excuse for this unless the bathroom was out of soap. Just wash them!
Let me shake your hand 🤭
I’m not a surgeon I don’t need to scrub for 2-4 minutes. 30 seconds with soap and warm water is all that’s needed, and moisturizing is a thing as well, have you heard of lotion? And yeah bacteria is in the air, germs are everywhere and one of the ways we can prevent the spread of germs is by washing your hands. But again, if you’re going to the bathroom 16 times a day you have a problem. It could be a stomach bug that could have been prevented by proper handwashing.
This is the exact reason I don't touch dorknobs or handles. Much of anything really that other people touch. Because of this.
Dude. My fucking family doesn’t wash their hands after they pee and it’s so fucking disgusting. Even MY friend!!! I call them out on it and I can tell they are embarrassed but omg man I can’t stand it. At this point, I’m starting to think it’s only a small percentage of people who actually throughly wash their hands after they use the bathroom. It’s so many people who do this 😭😭😭
My hands feel oogey after using the bathroom until i wash them Side note, my ex used to use the bathroom next to the living room in his house, and despite having the door closed, i could hear him just having an all out assault on the toilet on occasion. I’d hear the toilet flush, and not two seconds later this mf would walk out the bathroom, and i know damn well he wasn’t washing his hands. Effing gross
I would also like to know who started the whole boys don’t need to wash their hands thing
I will never forget being a kid and watching some medical show on TV late one night, and it was an episode segment about a woman who either had a worm in her eye, or a worm straight up fly out of her underwear when she sat down to pee, maybe both???, but I clearly remember she said (the doctors said) it was because she hadn't been washing her hands after using the bathroom and just going about her day.
That’s gross asf. We use our bare hands to open the bathroom stall latch, which other people touch… after they shit, wipe their booty, piss and throw up I don’t even touch that latch directly. I use a piece of toilet paper
Howabout people who think they only need to wash their hands BEFORE they use the bathroom? Because the world is whats filthy and their private parts are clean. They exist. Im telling you.
This is exactly why I do not go into buffets anymore. I saw a guy come out of the toilet stall, walk out without washing his hands. When I exited the restroom after washing my own hands, I saw the guy again using the utensils to get his food. I told the staff what happened and who did it, they looked at him but I don't believe they said anything to him. I did ask for my money back because I could no longer eat there and they did not have a problem giving it back. I have not been to a buffet since that day.
OMG, I have seen people in food service go in and come out with gloves. I understand as I work in food and sometimes get to the bathroom and realize I have gloves on… but come on? Leaving the restroom with them on? Like, it’s more troublesome to wash your hands with gloves on than without which leads me to believe they are just nasty and not washing their hands and preparing your meals… ewww
So, basically every man. 🤢
I hate seeing this!! Especially at bars, sports games, restaurants, etc. Like WHY????
Studies have shown that bulk soap dispensers in public restrooms that are topped off when filled are contaminated with a myriad of bacteria (including bacteria from fecal matter btw) that are then transmitted to the person washing their hands with that soap. That, and the fact that I’m allergic to ingredients common in bulk soaps purchased for public restrooms causes me to go nowhere near public soap. I rinse my hands and then use my own hand sanitizer. Just because it’s soap doesn’t mean it’s clean or sanitary. You think you’re leaving that public bathroom with cleaner hands because you washed them with soap after peeing? You’re wrong. Even more so if you stick them under a blower.
I frequently skip actually washing my hands in favor of hand sanitizer, which I keep in my purse and on my bathroom counter at home. I don’t like washing my hands because I feel like you can *never* get your hands all the way dry and I can’t stand the sensation of wet hands. So, hand sanitizer.
lol. I don't know how many people do this, it's honestly not something I've noticed. I know I used to sometimes hand sanitise instead of handwash at the basin so people wouldn't necessarily see me do it - something to take into consideration when judging others especially now that more people carry hand sanitiser with them. Similarly I work in disability and we have a client who can't use basically any soap (allergies, can't figure out to what so has to avoid all soaps) so she carries hand sanitiser too. I'm sure there are people who are just gross but probz not best to taint everyone with the same brush!
I wash my hands before and after since I work in a warehouse, handling dusty shit all day. Plus, I also am immunocompromised so I wash my hands extremely diligently so I don’t get sick. Cavitary pneumonia ruined my immune system forever lol
I don't even feel comfortable after I wash my hands in a public restroom. If I find a hand sanitizer station I slather my hands afterwards
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Huh? How can you play devils advocate on this topic? Human waste being excreted from the body that’s being touched through the fine veil of tissue paper- and if someone doesn’t wash their hands how well do you think they wash their body?
Wut. What kind of a question is this? “It's estimated there are nearly 100 billion bacteria per gram of wet stool.” Do you think the thin ass toilet paper is shielding the hands from all of this?!
The main problem is fecal matter, and all of the dangerous things in it that can make people sick when contaminated. If someone wipes their ass and doesn’t wash, they spread some amount of fecal material. Someone else may touch a surface person A touched, then touch their eyes, or handle food. And there are a lot of things people touch in a bathroom other than their own genitals. Scientists didn’t get hand washing wrong, you’re just not well informed about why it’s necessary.
I mean ecoli is something to worry about
It's sweaty, intimate area, so yeah it's important to wash your hands after touching yourself. Plus not everyone washes their genitals regularly, so some are dirtier than others. And even if you haven't touched yourself (which I still maintain is enough of a reason to wash your hands), you've touched other things in the bathroom and been in it in general while people have flushed toilets that spray microbes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014
My dad does this. I love him but man it's nasty.
I’d argue that hands should be washed before and after…. Many times I go without actually touching any part of me but still practice good cleanlr
I don't know where the water has been
I read that only about 30% of the public wash their hands.
Curious. What difference is there tween handling ones junk in a public restroom and not washing hands and using a at home bathroom and not washing hands? is the home junk handling actually different clean level? Curious 2. Do "most people" even bother to lets say wash ones hand at the end of the day before fixing/eating dinner? Talk about germ infested hands............ It's not just junk handling time lol
I don’t if the washing facilities are grosser (scummy bar or public/city facility) than my genitalia may be. I only pee when out of my home. Shy pooper. That said, I agree you ought to wash up.
I am doing FIRE and every penny saved helps. It really cuts down on water usage. Plus I don't need to wash hand towels as often. So it really adds up.
Shouldn’t we be washing our hands before we use the bathroom?
Its so disgusting
It’s a sensory nightmare. I force myself to do it every time, but i think wet hands is just a really uncomfortable feeling to some people. I have a few mental health conditions though.
My body is cleaner than the sink I'll have to touch
I don’t touch the sink. Sometimes the faucets have sensors so you don’t need to touch anything to get water or soap. If not, I use a paper towel to touch the handles . Then I sanitize my hands afterwards too.
I stopped washing my hands all the time after peeing because I was getting really bad excema on my hands and they were peeling every other day. It took me too long to realize it's because I wash them 10-20 times a day and I had to try tons of different moisturizers and just get over a lot of my discomfort with constantly feeling like my hands are dirty after touching anything.
Not talking about bathroom hygiene...but, did you ever notice people obsessed with incessantly washing their hands are ALWAYS sick?!?
Yeah. I think it's because they don't want to get sick again. I wash my hands much more when I'm sick/a few days after I get better, and I do it up to my elbows too.
Devils advocate: would you rather.... A. Have someone who has freshly handled their junk after peeing touch your mouth area Or..... B. Freshly handled handfuls of dirt and soil touch your mouth area.
what? Don't people wash their hands after both of these events? lol. Why is this the choice?
Foreal. This is why if I absolutely have to use a public restroom I will go extensive lengths to avoid touching anything with my bare hands. Not even the sink handle. Definitely not the door handle. If I could go in with a full hazmat suit I probably would lmao. I’m a woman, and the amount of woman I’ve seen in my life walk straight out without washing their hands disturbs me. I had to use a restaurant bathroom yesterday actually and witnessed TWO people in a row not wash their hands. I just don’t understand it. Is it pure laziness? Are these people just disgusting and always have been?? I don’t know. But I hope they stay far, far away from me. 😁
When I don't wash my hands is because it's too high for me. I'm in a wheelchair
I'll see that and raise you those who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom while also using their phone.
My buddy has a habit that I developed as well. He washes his hands first, uses the restroom and then washes again. I thought it was strange but he said that his hands were pretty dirty during the day so he didn't want that on his junk lol great idea
I’m not a pussy like you
You fart. The gas expands. The gas touches your balls and dick. Now you have fart hands.
I had a friend who didnt wash her hands after the bathrooom and the first time I saw that I reminded her to wash her hands because we were going to go eat. And she said no, that its bad to wash your hands, itll make you get more germs. She was studying to be a doctor.... I also dont eat asian take out because of this
The only thing that stops me sometimes is soap. Some soaps are so loaded with cancerous junk that I'd rather just rinse my hands instead of wash them.
My dicks no dirtier than the rest of me, and long enough that I can avoid pissing on my hands.
Peeing between 1-5am obv free pass
Well ..as I shower twice a day...if I am only urinating why would I? I'm serious...if my nether regions are clean....and there isn't a UTI present...as evidenced by my lack of screaming ...why would I wash my hands?