Public Rest Rooms

[OneEyedDiva]

I try to squat without touching anything and then try to drip dry without using the TP (not always successful with female anatomy). I get a paper towel after hand washing to even touch the door handle. I hate it when there's no warm or any water in the sink, no hand soap and no towels, or the electric hand drier isn't working. My mom carried her own TP in a plastic baggie for such emergencies. Sometimes all those happen. Then there's the usual harried mom changing a baby's diaper in one of the sinks.

Charmin and now other companies put out cute mini rolls of toilet paper. I keep one with me at all times when I'm on the go for that very reason. If TP is available, as long as it hasn't been sitting on something, as opposed to coming directly off the roll, I have no problem using it, after tearing off the part that's hanging off the roll.

 

[nvtribefan]

Most germs are aridity and cold liable, that is they can't survive for long outside an environment that is not warm and moist like inside a human body. A toilet seat is not conducive to virus and bacterial survival. That is not to say you couldn't contract ANYTHING. Why take a chance?

And about the toothbrush - at least they are MY germs and I know I do not have any deadly communicable diseases.

What deadly and communicable disease has anyone ever caught from a toilet seat? Actually, what disease of any kind has anyone ever caught from a toilet seat?

 

[jujube]

I really don't have a problem with public toilets or even port-a-potties. It's when I'm out hiking that the problems start. Squatting is not this old gal's finest activity. I've decided that from now on I'm only wearing yellow socks and tennis shoes when I'm out in the woods.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I really don't have a problem with public toilets or even port-a-potties. It's when I'm out hiking that the problems start. Squatting is not this old gal's finest activity. I've decided that from now on I'm only wearing yellow socks and tennis shoes when I'm out in the woods.

Invest in a GoGirl or one of the similar disposable funnels that allow you to go while standing up!

 

[tnthomas]

If you don't have broken skin that could come in contact with surfaces, there should not be much reason for health risk concern....except for the "ewe" factor.

 

[Lethe200]

definitely the sears catalog.....just don't use the shiny pages.

lol!

 

[aeron]

We have a bidet and would not now be without one.

 

[AprilT]

I hover, I rarely ever have had to do anything other than #1, at a public rest room, so, I just try not to spray my own legs in the process. If there are those seat covers, depending on how clean the facility looks and smells, I might take a seat.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

Poison oak leaves, so we could build up a tolerance. Actually, TP was kept in a sealed coffee can and a flashlight hung from the wall -- to check for spiders under the lid, of course. Farm kids are tough for lots of reasons!

Love this!

 

[Manatee]

We have a bidet and would not now be without one.

In your outhouse?

 

[aeron]

In your outhouse?

Thankfully we have indoor facilities. Whenever either of us have had to use facilities that are not yet in the 20th century let alone the 21st our first port of call on returning home is to our own lavatory. In some countries the public lavatories have a flexible hose with a press tap on the end to use in place of a fixed bidet and the paper is used as a towel rather than as a smearing thing. What I really don't like are the places where the paper must be put into a close by bin and not flushed. This is usually in hot countries with inadequate sewage processing facilities and the stench can become truly appalling.