When to Wash Your Hands
Working in an office all day I'm obviously forced to use the shared lady's room through out the day. The one on my floor is actually quite nice compared to most of the others as we don't get as many people coming through to make it dirty as the day goes on. There is a window with a nice view outside and a few plants on the sill, a chair to sit in if the stalls are full, a full length mirror as well as a long one along the wall with a ledge under it where hair or makeup can be fixed away from the sinks. Of course there are also two stalls, two sinks with a mirror and a paper towel dispenser.
In this building, all of the toilets are automatic flush and the sinks motion detected to run water. The soap and paper towel dispensers both have a lever to push. Most of the ladies on our floor us the room in the proper order in my opinion. They use the toilet, wash their hands, then use the paper towel dispenser to dry. But there are a couple of ladies who do not do things in this order. They use the toilet, then push the lever to dispense paper towels but leave them hanging from the dispenser, go wash their hands and then come back to tear them off. This drives me bonkers. Doing things in the first order means everyone is touching the paper towel dispenser with clean hands even if they are wet. Doing so the second way means they are touch it with dirty hands and leaving it there for those who do things the other way to pick up.
The reason they do things the odd way is so that they are using the dispenser with dry hands. Though oddly, they won't do it if someone else is already in the room as they don't want that person to be able to grab the towels they've dispensed. But if everyone is touching it with wet hands what does it matter if it is wet? I'd rather touch a wet lever that I at least know was touched with a clean hand than a dry one touched by a dirty hand.
Maybe I'm just way to picky, but this really does bother me as I find it disgusting that they would touch it after using the toilet but before washing their hands.
In this building, all of the toilets are automatic flush and the sinks motion detected to run water. The soap and paper towel dispensers both have a lever to push. Most of the ladies on our floor us the room in the proper order in my opinion. They use the toilet, wash their hands, then use the paper towel dispenser to dry. But there are a couple of ladies who do not do things in this order. They use the toilet, then push the lever to dispense paper towels but leave them hanging from the dispenser, go wash their hands and then come back to tear them off. This drives me bonkers. Doing things in the first order means everyone is touching the paper towel dispenser with clean hands even if they are wet. Doing so the second way means they are touch it with dirty hands and leaving it there for those who do things the other way to pick up.
The reason they do things the odd way is so that they are using the dispenser with dry hands. Though oddly, they won't do it if someone else is already in the room as they don't want that person to be able to grab the towels they've dispensed. But if everyone is touching it with wet hands what does it matter if it is wet? I'd rather touch a wet lever that I at least know was touched with a clean hand than a dry one touched by a dirty hand.
Maybe I'm just way to picky, but this really does bother me as I find it disgusting that they would touch it after using the toilet but before washing their hands.
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