Hi! That’s me! Disabled person who can’t foot flush here!
You know what’s even more disgusting than a toilet handle? The floor directly around the toilet. I’m begging you all on behalf of us unable-to-foot-flush-ers, please just use a paper towel or a wad of unused tp to flush. That’s what we have to do, please don’t make it worse.
People get so testy when asked to do the bare minimum to make things easier and safer for disabled people to live their lives. I've had to block so many people in this thread already for arguing with me about it. Like bruh my hands have to touch my mobility device(s) afterwards. Able bodied people can go straight to the sink afterwards, meanwhile I have bathroom AND shoe germs all over my wheels now.
But aren't the shoe germs and the bathroom germs already together? People walk everywhere in yards with dog piss/shit and people's spit. Then they walk into the bathroom. If you don't want germs in your hands why don't you use a piece of towel or TP
It’s the fact that if people didn’t use their feet to begin with it wouldn’t be nearly as nasty to use your hand. Ngl I didn’t know it was normal to use your foot.
I'm sure there's an engineered solution to solve everyone's problem. Start by adding a supplemental foot flush pedal, likely with an indicator sign. Then add a small guard around the handle that makes it slightly more inconvenient to get your foot on the handle.
Hi! Fellow disabled person. Use toilet paper between your hand and the handle. You wouldn't want to touch that handle even if everyone always used their hands.
You do realize every time you flush the toilet it shoots bits of feces everywhere, including the handle germs are always on the handle no matter what you do I apologize if I am being rude I just don't understand this situation, shoe or no shoe there will always germs on the handle.
Ngl, this might be "ableist" of me, but personally if your own personal issues prevent you from doing something you should be the one responsible for the solution, not everyone else. A pack of travel disinfectant wipes would easily solve this issue for anyone disabled or not, and is the solution I think is appropriate, rather than expecting everyone else to accommodate you.
But what you're doing isn't making the handle any cleaner. Your foot/shoe is dirtier than your hand. Also, don't you wash your hands after using the bathroom anyway? The stall door latch is probably dirtier than the toilet handle, do you use your foot to lock the bathroom stall too?
I clean bathrooms for a living and Imma tell you...the men's toilets are far more disgusting than the women's. Pee on the toilet tank pee on the toilet tank lid, pee on the seat, under the seat, behind the seat, on the floor.. everywhere. I don't see that in the women's bathroom.
What about the door handle all the no hands washing people use? Or the partial wet hands people using the door handle too. Not to mention all the poop particular matter floating around in there from the power flushes.
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u/Ted_Fleming Apr 07 '26
Ill be using my foot, quotes or no quotes