This is an additional reason I hate places that use air driers instead of paper towels

I’ve noticed a lot of places now have a trash can conveniently located by the door for this.

And some places are smart and put a garbage can by the door, for the reason.

I've settled into a routine of pulling the door open with the paper towel, flinging the paper towel into the nearest trashcan, and darting out quick enough without having to keep the door open with my foot or anything. Not necessary, but fun

It's truly amazing how many people including who ever made the picture don't realize this. It's kind of like those conversations where people talk about washing spoons and always getting water sprayed on themselves. Or the people that can only wipe standing up. It's like somehow they just are going through life and not managing the most basic thought processes.

This is the way

My favorite was a guy in college who came in, used the urinal, used the hand dryer, and left.

I know where my dick has been. Usually.

Edit: Why so serious?

My hands harbor far more bacteria than my dick. And so does that door handle, the grossest part of the whole business.

This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.

I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.

The objectively correct way^

I absolutely love those things. I don't understand why they aren't everywhere. I've seen maybe half a dozen in my lifetime

I've only seen this in a few places - and of the places most had them installed in the most awkward/ineffective way.

Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.

Is this not common elsewhere?

Nothing like losing your balance or getting your foot jammed when someone slams the door open from the other side. I prefer the wheelchair buttons

Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.

It’s unsafe for doors to open into hallways, so you need to design alcoves for every entrance otherwise, so far more space is wasted.

Also, use paper to open the door, and a lot of places have foot pulls now, easier for handicapped people as well.

The best entrance, especially for handicapped people, is a maze entrance, but uses even more space.

I’ve seen a lot of places add those foot pull handles to doors since COVID. Not the best, but it’s a solution

Some places have little foot hooks at the bottom.

I wonder if push to enter doors cut down on injuries of people rushing to the toilet, or if it’s just because they usually open into corridors.

Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald's, where it's constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that's when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.

Huh never considered this, thanks

For a hundred thousand years your ancestors people's population never broke a million either.

Yeah, bacteria take about a second or so to go through that if there is any moisture

I don't get it bro, the hinges, door closer and handle all are formatted properly to open inward.

Educate your heathen friend here.

Closers can work from either side, depending on the model.

You can see the hinges though, so it is a pull

You clean your hands but then you have to touch a probably dirty handle to open the door.

That foot thing is an awful design IMO. Rather than a step-on to pull, it should be a design that allows you to flex your foot up and hook it under something to pull. The step-on kind necessarily requires you to put weight on it, letting off pressure on your other foot thereby causing instability. This can be difficult to manage for lighter people or on doors requiring a heavier pull force to open. The hook under kind would stabilize the person trying to open the door.

Edit: there have been some good arguments for why the step-on kind has advantages. Clearly the only answer is for bathrooms to have two doors. One with a step-on and one with a hook-under.

But realistically the hook-under could easily have a top portion allowing step-on utilization as well.