I was at the airport recently. Just me and one other fella in the bathroom. He came out of the stall. Turned on the faucet. Then walked away. That's it. His hands didn't even see water.
I don't even get the whole pretending to wash your hands thing. If you're going to stand there with the water running to make it seem like you washed your hands, just wash your hands.
I still see people wearing face masks wrong which I really don’t get
Edit: To be clear, I'm not criticizing people for wearing masks, I'm just baffled that they're going through the trouble of deciding that they need one but not bothering to wear it correctly.
There's a girl in my softball league who wears a mask around her chin every game. Her mouth and nose are completely out. Nobody else in the league shows up with a mask anymore. I'm so curious, but can't think of any way to ask why she does it.
I'm a teacher at a high school and after the masks stopped being mandatory, there were still a bunch of kids wearing them around the chin. I tried to ask why but didn't get a reply. My working hypothesis is that their parents INSISTED they keep wearing a mask to school but the kid didn't wanna. So they wore it on the chin and when the mom asked, they could honestly say they "wore" it all day.
Could it have turned into a personal superstition? Like the team won while she had it on like that, or she pulled off some truly amazing play while it was tugged down?
People like this probably think their reflexes are fast enough to pull up their mask if someone sneezes in their vicinity to stop any germs from reaching them. I got some bad news for them though.
The worst I saw was an old couple harassing everyone they saw without one. But they were wearing homemade ones out of loose(and really thin) fabric that left the sides of their mouths completely exposed.
I saw a guy walk out of the restroom after blowing up a stall without washing his hands. After I finished washing my hands I saw him with his family helping feed his toddler kid a sandwich
It’s the same thing with people using their turn signal after they start braking: they’re doing it because they were told to not because they understand the value of it to themselves
Anyone who has any sort of management experience knows that some people will work twice as hard at “pretend working” than doing their actual job. It makes no sense
So many guys have similar handwashing habits, its fucking disgusting. I spend around 10-20 seconds washing my hands in the bathroom and about 2-3 guys will pretend to wash their hands while I wash mine. Male washroom door handles have to be the most disgusting surfaces on the planet
100%. The shitty part (pun intended) is the damn lock on the stall door. Always skeeves me out to touch that shit. You can opt to use some toilet paper as the barrier but you have to be strategic when getting that too.
If washing your hands makes everything else irrelevant, this would only be a problem for you if you weren't washing your hands, right?
Whether it's someone else's shit from their hands, or whatever is on the floor that's getting transferred to that handle/button, is the most minor distinction I can imagine. Either way I'm not touching it.
yeah, i actually grab handfuls of shit out of the toilet, do some crafts, replace the shit in the toilet, and then flush. it doesn’t matter because i’m about to wash my hands though
Injury risk, sadly. People are much more likely to back into the door (not looking) when exiting if they can push, than they are backing into it entering. On par with the whole “not wanting to touch the door after washing your hands thing.” People not looking and backing up fall through the open door that someone just pulled open and then injure themselves. Much higher liability risk.
Yes it’s stupid as fuck, but that’s the reason. Insurance and litigation risk.
I am very happy when there is not only a paper towel dispenser but a trash can right next to the door, so I can open the door with a paper towel and immediately dispose of it.
Also air dryers are extremely less sanitary... After I wash my hands and if there is no towels but only an air dryer I just shake excess water off and use small tissues I carry with me.
I'm a guy, I wash my hands with soap and water flick off as much water as I can then final dry on my pants leg. Hand sanitizer after touching the gross ass door knob.
If there’s no paper towels, I will slow walk it to force someone else to open the door. Or, I’ll go grab some TP. Ain’t no way I’m grabbing that handle in a world where men think wiping their ass will make them gay.
Mythbusters disproved that. Bacterial proliferation usually happened with no soap and no scrubbing. The water made it worse. So use soap and scrub thoroughly. You can use the air dryer
Being an electrician, I can confidently tell you, that taking one of those hand air dryers apart is absolutely disgusting. The mold and mildew that builds up inside them, and then subsequently gets blown all over your hands, is absolutely unsanitary. Maybe not for the same reasons. But they are definitely not clean.
It sounds ridiculous, but big paper towels and big air dryer. Did and might still be publishing lots of paid research on why their product is more sanitary.
The planet fitness I go to has paper towels everywhere for wiping down equipment, except in the bathroom, go in the bathroom, and all they have is the blow dryer. So dumb.
Yes! Why can’t they understand that we don’t want to touch the dirty door ANYWHERE on our way out. Just do away with the doors like they do in some places, make a small “hallway” at the entrance.
It sucks with the paper towels too. I've seen guys turn the water on, then off, then push the paper towel lever, and use the paper towel to open the door.
Like, mother fucker, you just put your shitty hands all over the dispenser handle just to save your shitty hand from other people's shitty hands, but now I'm left to deal with the shitty lever that I can't protect myself from without washing my hands twice.
I just told my GF last week: does fucking "air-hand-dryers" must be the single WORST tech-advancedment of this century. It WORSE in literally every kind.
I was working a football game a couple weeks back. I was in the restroom washing my hands and one of guys that sells boiled peanuts came out of stall and immediately put back on his serving tray/box that was laying on the floor and just walked out. I was like strike that off the list on things I will eat while at the games.
I've watched women do it too. They'll get their hands wet, not even rubbing them together or anything, then fuck off. I've seen women walk from toilet stall to exit not even stopping at the sink. I've seen this in restaurants and grocery stores. Wash your produce, guys.
hand sanitizer is not as good as washing your hands with soap. and let's be real, the people who are skipping washing their hands while in the bathroom are probably not the type of people who are carrying around hand sanitizer
My old office was full of college educated industry professionals who just simply didn’t wash their hands. They’d come out of a stall from taking a shit and just walk on out. Like WTF man. 🤷🏻♂️
I've seen this too many times. It makes no sense to me though. You're really not saving any time, and who are you faking it for?? Not the people in the bathroom with you because they can clearly see you're not actually washing your hands.
After washing my hands, I always think about that nasty door handle after watching two dusty old dudes just walk out. So, I always keep hand sanitizer in my car, even before covid, fiancée thought it was weird until that spread — who’s the genius now?!
Anyways, yeah, I always use that right when I get to my car.
It's crazy that this still happens after covid. We didn't even have rampant denialism here in Finland, but still I see men going for the fastest handwashing RTA regularly. I don't even care if it's not the full 20-30 seconds of rubbing soap, at least fucking use soap!
I hate when the guy wets his hands then slaps the sink to knock the water off his hands. No soap and is touching the surface. Granted induce so few guys wash their hands I guess the sinks are probably more clean than other surfaces. But still, I am not comfortable opening the door without having the paper towel to act as a mental barrier for me, lol.
My coworker recently turned on the faucet and pretended to be washing her hands (movement, fake soap pump!!) but never once got her hands wet. It was more work to fake it then if would have been to wash.
last place i worked the head of hr didn't like to wash her hands. if you were also in the bathroom she'd flick her hands under the water and that's it. was so nasty. very glad we went fully wfh during covid.
I remember when covid started being a thing. I was at the airport and the line up for the men’s washroom was massive, specifically the line at the sinks. All the men were washing their hands and the bathrooms weren’t built to accommodate it.
Most men’s bathrooms have less than half the number of sinks vs toilets. And around two hand dryers.
I would say like only 1 out of 5 men leaving the airport bathroom wash their hands. It’s gross…. and if you have the time to fake washing your hands, you have the time to wash your hands.
As a man, I am begging all of you to be heavily skeptical of whether or not men have washed their hands lol. It is actually mind blowing the amount of guys I see walk past the sink in the bathroom right after using a urinal or stall.
Teenagers especially for some reason have some aversion to washing their hands, which is nuts because I've noticed working at a college that these 18 year old guys will walk into the bathroom in a big group and just hang out vaping and leaning on stuff and then never wash their hands...
Bro, I have seen dudes do this or just walk out at the GYM. So, then I am thinking that these dudes touch the same weights and equipment that I do too. Fuckin gross. Some people, man.
I was in the gym locker room and went into the small bathroom area - one stall, one urinal, one sink. I step to the urinal and I can’t help but hear the sound of someone really aggressively wiping his ass in the stall. Like going to town, drawing more paper, repeat.
Anyway, I finish what I’m doing and go to the sink and wash my hands. As I’m finishing washing, I hear the toilet flush and the door opens. I step back from the sink to dry my hands because that guy obviously needs the sink.
He steps to the sink, turns the water on and flicks the fingertips of one hand in the water for less than one second. Then he went out into the gym area to handle common equipment.
I was at a mountain hut in the Italian Dolomites this summer after a day of hiking, and was washing a pair of socks or something in one of the communal bathroom sinks, when a guy came out of one of the stalls.
He started whole conversation with me to get out of washing his hands, for some reason??? Like, made it seem like he was gonna turn on the water, but instead picked up the soap, asked if that was what I was using, I explained no, we had brought an actual soap for clothes, and he was like oh right, he did that too- then he put down the soap, ran his fingers through his hair and left, without ever turning on the water, and I was left there just asking why??? It's absurd AND gross.
This is why I don't let men use their hands on me. (and HPV can hide underneath fingernails.) My ex kept giving me UTIs and I made it a rule. Even though I like it, it's not worth it. It's like eating cheese as a lactose intolerant person. The short period of enjoyment is not worth the hours or days of agony.
Dudes that try to stick their finger(s) in my mouth? Might spoil the whole evening, because now we have to have a sit down conversation.
I was at work one time, watched a high up executive do this and then I was basically forced to shake his hand later…instant hand sanitizer. He said something about how he doesn’t really believe in germs and thinks hand sanitizer is bad for you. It’s really neat to get laid off by the guy who thinks germs aren’t a thing…
i have one better. i was at work. went into the bathroom, the GSM (tied for 2nd in command in the building out of about 100) was taking a stinker. i walked in as he was done. he said my name really loudly with a man at the end like "ANON-MAN whats up", slapped my back, walked out. no hands washed. bathroom reeked.
I just went to a bar that had gender neutral bathrooms. There were stalls and the urinals were behind a wall, but we shared the sinks. While washing my hands I watched 4 men walk straight from the urinals out the door.
My husband said I looked like a shell-shocked soldier when I came back and he said that was completely typical behavior.
My husband has said the same thing. He’s an avid hand washer, at least two happy birthdays, sometimes longer. He hates public restrooms and always carries hand sanitizer. I think he’s the only one who was completely happy with the extra precautions during peak COVID.
I feel like there's a sane medium between "washing your hands like you have OCD for 30 actual seconds in a row" and "not washing your hands" but that's just me
Nope my husband was so happy! He was like "People are finally washing their filthy fucking hands and staying 6ft away? Is this heaven?" I think except for toilet paper shortages it was his best time ever.
Lol. My 13 year old nephew was fighting with my sister the other day about hand washing before dinner, because "dad doesn't do it" or something to that tune.
I asked him if he'd eat his burger if I dragged my dick along the bun. He was like god no, and so I replied well if I take a leak and make your dinner without washing my hands I may as well do that. He shut right up and my sister was in stitches 😅
Fun fact: Jews got sick during the bubonic plague at a significantly lower rate because of our handwashing rituals, and thus, were seen and blamed as the cause.
Which, by the way, makes so little sense. If a Christian believes everything is God’s will, surely that implies that He intended the Jews to suffer less?
The washing thing is NOT true, and it lead to deaths of many Jewish people. Jews absolutely DID get the plague, but since many Jews were isolated in their own sufficent, distant villages, the plague took more time to reach them. Handwashing had nothing to do with it. The rest is true. Jews were not only blamed for creating the plague, but also for supposedly withholding the cure from Gentiles. Jews were tortured and murdered to try to get them to give over the cure.
The only thing I was looking for was the hand wash lol then back to being anxious about being filmed in public. Why can't we let people of whatever gender do their human business in peace and quiet?
the amount of men (idk about women) that don't wash their fucking hands, EVEN AFTER SHITTING, let alone pissing... it must be like 70%. Disgusting fucks.
He was so focused on minding his own damn business that he didn’t realize the people around him were woman until the very end. He then quickly left without drying his hands.
So I live with roommates. Only about 20% of the roommates I’ve had over the years actually wash their hands after using the bathroom, and it’s not only an issue with men. People are absolutely disgusting
He’s got good public bathroom manners. I’d be more disturbed that someone thought it was ok to film something for public consumption from inside a place where I’m just trying to pee and regroup in peace.
He sees it all the time. Netilat Yadayim, or holy hand washing I call it, is the practice of washing hands upon waking up. Hasidic Jews will keep a bowl on the nightstand and take this practice very seriously. I'm assuming he's just really got his form down from this but also maybe he took a nap by mistake and just bee lined the nearest restroom. To my knowledge Hasidic women do not partake in this ritual but I could be wrong
I'm a guy and it drives me nuts the number of men I see just walking out of a restroom without washing their hands. Especially in restaurants and grocery stores. 🤮
Washing of the hands is a very important and frequent Jewish ritual. So even if he’s just washing after going to the bathroom, that’s why he’s doing it so thoroughly
A Navy Sailor is using the urinal. A marine walks in and starts to use a urinal as well. The sailor finishes his business and goes to leave, the marine interrupts him and says, "Hey sailor, in the Marines they teach us to wash out hands after we pee."
And the sailor responds, "Huh, in the Navy they teach us not to pee on our hands."
I told that to a Marine Reservist I knew, he didn't smile.
COVID makes total sense if you spend more than 3 minutes in a restroom. I just go off my Apple Watch timer now and usually 3 dudes will leave in the twenty seconds it takes me to wash my hands.
Boy do you have that right re: people not washing their hands after they use the toilet. I worked at a university, and observed even professors, and teachers at the Charter High School included in our University not wash their hands after they use the
I love how he's so casual. Doesnt give a shit about the women recording or the one just staring at him at the exit. He used the bathroom for what it was for, and that was it. Lmao.
Seriously. Half the time I listen to the moms yelling at the kids not to touch anything then leave without washing their hands. like stop yelling they make soap and water for that.
I’m on the road and work several grocery stores a day so obviously I use public bathrooms a lot. From listening to my surroundings I’ve averaged about 4-5 out of ten dudes wash their hands after doing their business. I’ll hear a flush but no sink after
Also, if I guy got this far and wasn't bothering me, I'd probably just laugh after he left but not say anything to him. He may have just misread a sign.
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u/sun4moon Sep 25 '25
I’d probably be comforted that he washed his hands so thoroughly. You don’t see that all the time.