Why do so few people wash their hands after using a public restroom?

[Mr. Bung]

The amount of times I've seen some dude just walk right out without washing his hands is staggering. Sometimes even after they've taken a shit.

 

[Chongqing]

The stuff you have to touch, like the stuff to dry your hands, is filthy.

It's not like you're about to eat.

It's entirely performative.

 

[Penis Drager]

My dick touched my hands
My hands touched the doorknob
Your hands touched that doorknob
It's like a handjob by proxy.

You are now gay and I have the satisfaction of making you touch my PP.
Deal with it.

 

[Overcast]

As someone who maintains the restrooms at my workplace, the vast majority of people don't seem to know how to wash their hands properly. I have seen one dude who works overnight use a stall and then just walk right past the sink and use the sanitizer instead. He also has half pink hair.

You would think the whole COVID scare would have gotten more people to wash their hands properly, but I guess that's expecting too much from people.

 

[PaulBearer]

Cause there's no point?

I'll do it after a shit but not the other, and you can't make me.

 

[TheShedCollector]

Wash your cock in the morning, then don't piss on your hands.

 

[ClownBrew]

if it seems like the sink and soapbox are as filthy as the shitter or you have to turn a crank to get the paper towel...hell with it

 

[Dyn]

Because if you get my dick germs on you that's a 'you' problem.

 

[Chi-com Soldier]

I don't wash them at home, why should I when I go out?

As someone who maintains the restrooms at my workplace

lol janny

 

[King Fructose]

My first semi-serious answer on this board: because people are lazy.

Lots of people won't do something trivial if there isn't an immediate reward or visible benefit of some sort (preventing the spread of germs does not suffice). To them it's not worth the inconvenience.

 

[Coolio55]

This is like the supermarket shopping cart dilemma except even more trivial since you don't have to heave a lump of junk.
I don't know what "shit on hands" society these people envision but I don't want to see it.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

The stuff you have to touch, like the stuff to dry your hands, is filthy.

It's not like you're about to eat.

It's entirely performative.

>he doesn't just flap his hands like a retarded seagull until they're dry
ngmi

 

[Kenya Jones]

Sad to see so many people not washing their hands after they use the bathroom (at all). I'm sorry shitty hands, but were built different.

>he doesn't just flap his hands like a retarded seagull until they're dry
ngmi

Holy fuck this.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

The amount of times I've seen some dude just walk right out without washing his hands is staggering. Sometimes even after they've taken a shit.

Username checks out.

Relevant story: my first part-time job when I was sixteen was in a supermarket. Taking a piss one evening in the staff toilets, someone was making brown in the stall. As I was washing my hands, this older pajeet exited the stall, and proceeded to walk right out back onto the shop floor without even making the pretence of washing his hands.

Fucking disgusting.

 

[Disheveled Human]

I think its hard coded into humans to do this type of stuff, although society is training people not to act like animals and wash their hands. I would be lying if I said I washed my hands at home after taking a piss, but generally do so when in public or visiting a friend. Spreading and swapping benign germs is an important thing to help build a strong immune system, if there is one argument for sending your children to public school it is to expose them to germs other kids spread to make sure they do not have a stunted immune system. Imagine growing up for 20 years in a completely sterile environment and then joining the real world, you would probably need to be hospitalized if someone with a mild cold sneezed on you.

In short without the government, teachers and health experts telling people to wash their hands there probably wouldn't be many people who do wash them now its part of the culture to do so. Obviously during epidemics and outbreaks its wise to limit the spread of germs and hand washing should be a no brainer.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

What if that "DIDN'T WASH HANDS" alarm from The Far Side was invented?

 

[White Girl]

I wash my hands all the time. To me it’s gross not to and I always had to yell at my family members when they forget.

 

[Horton Hears A Whoreson]

People who don't wash their hands properly deserve the death penalty.

 

[Bob's Vagene]

Because people like the taste of their own dick.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Not washing your hands before you use the bathroom is the weirder behavior.

The public sphere is a cesspool and we should all try to protect our genitals. Especially if you anticipate having to adjust your feminine hygiene situation.