Pigs
Dear Women everywhere,
Here is some public restroom etiquette. One would hope that this isn't necessary but judging by the flith... it is.
1. A) If you manage to rip tiny pieces of toilet paper off the roll before getting an acceptable sized piece to wipe your fat ass DON'T THROW THEM ON THE FLOOR!!!!! Do you do this at home? B) Trash goes in the ( Read more... )
And,please don't call me a pig. I did not call you disgusting because you sit on public toilets and you touch the doors that people with shit on their hands have touched before you, did i? It is common sense, but not all people wash their hands after using the bathroom and it might kill me, or at least get me really sick, to touch a shitty(literally)door knob.
I have worked at a gas station and cleaning the restrooms was one of my duties, so i know how nasty people can be and how frustrating it is to clean after them. So i do try as much as i can to not mess up the restrooms i am using. But if i am not provided with the tools to keep it clean or clean up after myself- no toilet seat covers, no trashcans, no paper towels by the sinks (only blow dryers)... Then there's nothing i can do about it. I am not going to bring cleaning supplies from home or carry the germ-packed paper towels in my pockets or just-washed hands.
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There are plenty of bathrooms that don't have a trashcan next to the door. And i like using a paper towel to open the door after i've washed my hands on the way out.
Your article says that "Germs in feces can be propelled into the air when the toilet is flushed" and people should leave the stall as soon as possible so they don't land on them. From that i understand that they also land everywhere else in the stall, including the toilet seat. So how is it ok to sit on a toilet right after someone else used it, flushed it and all the germs from their feces landed on it? It's like sitting on their shit. No, thanks.
To sum up- there's no reason to jump on me like that just because i disagree with you that sitting on a public toilet or touching the door knob on the way out is acceptable. That's all i disagreed with. I think it's nasty, you think it's fine. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I never said it's ok to leave your mess uncleaned. So why exactly are you getting mad at me?
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Bathroom Paranoia
WebMD FeaturePerhaps Ally McBeal can ease her off-the-charts stress levels by escaping to the office restroom. But for most of us, public toilets are actually a bit scary.
If you squirm at the thought of creepy germs lurking on toilet seats and faucet handles, you probably spend as little time as possible in the restrooms of your office building, not to mention those in restaurants, hotels and (God forbid!) gas stations. And during those nerve-wracking moments when you dare to venture into the confines of the bathroom, you may find yourself pushing open the stall door with your elbows, crouching precariously above the toilet seat rather than letting your skin touch it, and flushing with your shoe.
But while there's plenty of bathroom paranoia to go around, anxiety might be a little overdone. Yes, there can be plenty of bugs lying in wait in public restrooms, including both familiar and unfamiliar suspects like streptococcus, staphylococcus, E. coli and shigella bacteria, hepatitis A virus, the common cold virus, and various sexually transmitted organisms. But if your immune system is healthy, and if you adopt simple hygienic measures like handwashing, you should be able to deliver a knockout punch to most of what you encounter and perhaps put your "germ-phobia" to rest.
No doubt about it, there could be a witch's brew of germs wherever you turn in public restrooms. Many people consider toilet seats to be public enemy No. 1 -- the playground for organisms responsible for STDs like chlamydia or gonorrhea. But before you panic, the toilet seat is not a common vehicle for transmitting infections to humans. Many disease-causing organisms can survive for only a short time on the surface of the seat, and for an infection to occur, the germs would have to be transferred from the toilet seat to your urethral or genital tract, or through a cut or sore on the buttocks or thighs, which is possible but very unlikely.
"To my knowledge, no one has ever acquired an STD on the toilet seat -- unless they were having sex on the toilet seat!" says Abigail Salyers, PhD, president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Common cold germs, like most viruses, die rapidly, and thus may be less of a threat than you think. "Even if you come into contact with particular viruses or bacteria, you'd have to contract them in amounts large enough to make you sick," says Judy Daly, PhD, professor of pathology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Germs in feces can be propelled into the air when the toilet is flushed. For that reason, Philip Tierno, MD, director of clinical microbiology and diagnostic immunology at New York University Medical Center and Mt. Sinai Medical Center, advises leaving the stall immediately after flushing to keep the microscopic, airborne mist from choosing you as a landing site. "The greatest aerosol dispersal occurs not during the initial moments of the flush, but rather once most of the water has already left the bowl," he says.
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As far as I understand this is Zaggy's journal, she can write whatever she pleases.....if someone disagrees with it then tough really. If we walk around constantly paranoid about diseases and germs then we would be nervous wreaks. If I use a public restroom i generally check it out first....I guess I have had good luck so far....bar bathrooms are usually the worst.....as a mom I carry wipes and antibacterial wipes so I always wipe down the seat anyway.....and wash when I leave the bathroom, and same as my 4 year old.....we have yet to contact a disease! and considering we are in the bathroom for one purpose and not to have a party.......I have to say it must take some talent to use the pot without actually sitting on it and yeah, if you choose this route, just clean it up...I am assuming ZAggy made this post to let off steam and voice her opinion in a safe place....if you don't like what she says they don't post.
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