My roommate only washes up if he poops, never after peeing. Now every time I’m in any of the common areas I have to wash my hands after touching anything I haven’t wiped down. Thus, I wash my hands twice every time I use the bathroom; once as normal and again in the kitchen because I touched the taps, light switch and door handle in the bathroom which likely have groin sweat on them… /rant
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In public yes
At home, I’m wearing sweatpants or basketball shorts. Why do I need to wash if I’m only touching the front of my waist band
Aside from the fact that you’re peeing, you should be washing your hands throughout the day anyway and this is a perfect time to do it. So even if you just peed with no hands, this attitude means ya nasty.
Flushing?
I regret opening this thread and this completly validates me using anything but my bare hands to grab door handles.
Excellent lol. As an aside, there are cafes I do not go to just because they don’t use paper towels in their bathrooms.
Me too. One of the reasons I hate summer is I don’t usually have something with long sleeves to open shuff with.
carry hand sanitizer, but also if it’s the washroom use paper towels to open the door, and toss it on the floor beside the door if they’re stupid enough to not keep a trash can there / within reach.
I avoid certain restaurants/cafes that don’t hove paper towel in their bathrooms for this exact reason. ;-;
Public bathrooms yes. At home no.
He really should stop being lazy and wash his hands. While feces is much more dangerous than what’s likely hanging out on his junk, there’s still plenty of transmissible nastiness that he’s leaving everywhere.
But if he’s not going to change his behavior, you can mitigate by turning off the taps and handling the bathroom doorknob with a paper tissue if you use tissues to dry your hands (although I think this is common mostly in public washrooms). The overwashing you’re doing to compensate for his underwashing is not good for your hands.
I was worried about that too but my hands are fine actually. I use lukewarm water and it appears to actually help since I haven’t had any eczema flareups on my hands for a long time.
No I don’t and somehow I’m still alive.
I do at work though, out of courtesy.
You wash you hands before.
Nearly all of the time yes.
I think we have to talk about you. Regardless of your roommates bathroom habits, you should really assume every public surface is as dirty as you’re imagining the things your roommate touches. Put another way, I’m of the opinion that you are suffering from a bit of germophobia.
Admittedly this post was more of a rant but it’s still helpful to know everyone’s answers. I major in microbiology and I know for sure that everything, everywhere is teaming with life and my hygienic habits are informed by that. One of my biggest reasons for wiping everything down all the time is to reduce the chance of spending three or four days in hospital shitting in a bucket and chugging gatorade. It’s unusual to die from a dirty doorknob (covid 3000 rubs it’s hands) but it’s not fun and a waste of time to be sick. Sometimes that’s unavoidable ofc, but I take pains to reduce my chances, even if it’s just a little.
Especially because the science DOES recommend washing after you pee, but mostly because you’re already in the bathroom and the sink is right there.
The idea is you’re just regularly washing hands throughout the day.
Yeah this is the main thing for me. I wash after going pee anyways because hygiene but I randomly touch my junk through the day and don’t run to wash after (sorry world, love touching Deez Nutz what can I say) but the reality is that it’s just a great way to wash your hands every hour or two, which helps prevent the number one way I’ll transmit/receive germs.
If I never went pee I’d have to look for reasons to go to a sink, but as it is I have a convenient reason already.
Your roommate is disgusting
Most people are
The unfortunate truth is that most people are gross as hell. A huge number of people don’t wash after peeing. Ive come across some who don’t even wash after poop (confronted a person once and they said that they only touch toilet paper so it’s not like their hands are contaminated). Once you’re in common spaces, you will obviously have to touch the same things as these people. There have been swab and culture studies that show fecal bacteria on a lot of touch surfaces. There will even be fecal bacteria on your toothbrush from being in a toilet with aerosol toilet water with every flush. It is gross, but our immune systems handle this environmental contamination really well without OCD cleaning habits needed.
Some points for others:
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You might think your genitals are “clean” but you wouldn’t want to touch any random person’s clean genitals. Your hands are going to touch common surfaces. Wash them as courtesy (the same courtesy you would want from others).
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Washing isn’t about bacteria contamination. Pee has no bacteria on it but it would still be gross to be splashed by it. Hygiene gets rid of gross/ick things and it’s worth washing what you would expect others to wash.
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There’s huge personal world-view at play here for each individual. Many wouldn’t put up with the inconvenience of wearing masks to protect others from COVID at inconvenience to themselves. Unfortunately this mindset extends to things like hygiene for a lot of people. Please consider the world you live in and some inconveniences (like washing hands repeatedly) are for the sake of your fellow humans.
confronted a person once and they said that they only touch toilet paper so it’s not like their hands are contaminated
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Never shake that person’s hand.
you wouldn’t want to touch any random person’s clean genitals.
Depends on the person
Sent you a PM. Let’s meet up…to discuss this further…
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Yeah, there’s always tiny droplets. Would you also not wash your hands after pissing directly on it?
At work my hands are dirtier than my dick, I have to wash them before I pee. Come to think of it my hands are probably always dirtier than my dick because despite my best efforts I still can’t use it to open doors and not many people want to shake hands with it.
My hands are also dirtier than your dick.
Unless I’m pissing outside and flop my dong out without touching it (pull your underwear down, then use the fabric to support and aim), fuck yeah I wash my hands.
Yes, every single time. Even if I’m camping in the middle of nowhere. Hell, even if I sat down and didn’t even touch my dong.
If I don’t wash them, it feels like there is an invisible film on my hands. I don’t know how to describe it. Like, a film of filth or grease or something. Purely mental. I HAVE to wash them.
Next time you get sick, for any reason, just blow up on him. “I got sick because you can’t wash your goddamn dick sweat and piss after you pee!”. Make it dramatic. He’ll fear you’ll blow up every time you get sick. Or bring friends over and let them go “ewww, did you just leave the toilet without washing your hands?”. Bonus points probably if it’s the sex he’s attracted to that tell him.
On a serious note: I always wash my hands. WTF?
When in public:
Push door open (usually with elbow) Do business Extract paper towel, but do not grab them… Wash hands Get paper towel that has been dangling and begin to dry hands Use paper towel to get more paper towels (not touching the paper towel dispenser mechanism with skin, using the used ppr towel) Use new paper towel to secure the soiled one, and complete doing my hands, and turn off the water… Use paper towel once more to open the door out of the bathroom
This one time I used a bathroom that had a foot handle that you could open and lock the doors with and the rest of the accoutrements were motion activated.
