Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Toilet Poll

I'm taking a poll.
When you use a public bathroom, after you do your business, do you pull up and zip pants/jeans and then flush the toilet?
Or do you immediately flush the toilet and then rearrange your clothing?
I do the former and was told that it was 'the wrong way.'

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

the only "wrong way" to use a bathroom is to make a nasty mess that other people are left to deal with or to not "spare a square."

Jilly

Waltzing Matilda said...

I pull up and then use my foot to flush. Kind of hard to do that if your pants are still down.

Bert Bananas said...

If I were rich, rich, rich, and had prestige and power veritably crackling from my fingertips, AND were a huge, corpulent mass of heaving, rich, powerful flesh, I would hire strong, adorably cute little people to attend to whatever soiling I did of myself while my business was being done. They couldn't flush until they were done attending to me. So if the future is as kind to me as I would like, not to mention deserve, this entire issue is moot.

So lets get back to the Emma/Spidey action. Now we're talking a reality show I could sink my teeth in, but just to nibble.

Clank Napper said...

I pull up then flush. Then I spend the next five minutes hand washing and trying not to touch anything in public loos, by pulling my hand into my sleeve and opening doors with my sleeve down...because I know I've washed my hands. But the person before me might not have.

I have an ocd :oD

Anonymous said...

i stand up pull up pants and then flush with my foot. but there are many places now that have automatic flushers so i don't have to deal with that part of it. then i go out, wash my hands and take an extra piece of toweling with me to open the door so i don't have to touch the door handle from the sloths who don't wash after they do their duty.
bert, you will have to do a bit more begging to get in on the action.

Anonymous said...

I let my shit linger for a while. Then I flush after I made sure everyone got a good whiff. - blu

Anonymous said...

I will first wash my hands and then lay down some paper on the seat - you never know who previously sat there.

Helpful hint - make sure there is ample toilet paper handy and out of the reach of would be paper bandits.

I will stand and open the stall door so I can flush and run. I will then wash my hands and use the paper towel to open the door. Oh! And THEN I will hike up my pants. : ) ~~I2Days~~

Anonymous said...

blu. what are we going to do with you?

Anonymous said...

hell yeah. i also put paper on the seat. i like it when they have the toilet liners available for my personal use.

Sonya said...

If you flush first, water from the toilet bowl could vaporize and touch your bare legs. Ew.

Anonymous said...

I arrange then flush but to be honest unless I am so desperate that I am going to wet myself I don't use public loos , fortunately I have a bladder like a space hopper and can go all day without weeing if I have to .I have never ever pooed in a public toilet I would rather die from constipation

schell said...

You people are a bunch of germophobes! I pee, pull up my pants, then wash my hands. Then I have the audacity to touch the door handle with my....get this....BARE HANDS!

Anonymous said...

I used to do that Schell. Then one day, as I was entering a restroom, I encountered a students who had just flushed, left the stall, and walked right out the door. Now I try to have some paper toweling handy.

Anonymous said...

When I was younger, I could hold my breath for two and a half minutes. Just enough time to rush in and take care of business and quickly rush back out. I would usually be exhaling and drying my hands on my way out through the door.

It's really bad to hold on to solids for any longer than necessary, because they turn toxic. I think a lot of people hold until the last minute - and that is why most of us want to wear a hazmat suit while venturing into a public waste chamber.

So . . . yes . . . I flush-and-run and wash my hands before and after. I wish I could hold my breath longer, because I'm not quite as fast as I once was.

~I2Days~

Anonymous said...

i have seen enough piggies walk out without washing their hands to know i don't want to touch their pee or poop germs left on the door handle.

Anonymous said...

thanks emma. now everytime i use a public bathroom i think about you.