Interesting. It's a constant reminder

You shouldn't be touching any handles upon exiting a bathroom.

The door should be push to exit, so you can open it by pushing with your elbow.

I would bet good money that both door handles are equally filthy, by nature of it being a school. Kids are walking talking germ incubators. We all are, but kids especially. And that's before we even get to the kids who are intentionally malicious little bastards -- I guarantee you, in some school districts, with some kids, signs like these would just be asking for an aspiring Poo-casso to smear their shit on the door handles.

If they’re going to break the rule about washing hands they’re not going to follow the door handle one either.

Here's an idea:
The sinks should be outside the bathroom.
That way, you can wash your hands after touching the dirty door, and everyone in the hallway can see if you don't wash your hands.

I recall there was a story from Predictably Irrational where the experimenters were trying to figure out how to get participants to avoid double-dipping tortilla chips.

Along with a control condition, they tried setting up a sign that said "NO DOUBLE DIPPING", and I think they also tried paying people or getting them to promise not to double dip, stuff like that.

The thing they found most successful was to set up two bowls of dip: One labeled "For double-dipping", and one "Not for double-dipping".

They supposed that once they had to do a physical action where they sorted themselves according to "what kind of person they are", they wanted all of their visible actions to be consistent with that.

I still wouldn't trust either handle. People are assholes.

Literally scrolling while pooping at work and someone came in, did their thing and left without hand washing. These idiots walk among us.

there should be a guy in every bathroom who body slams you into the pavement if you don’t wash your hands for 20 seconds with warm soap and water

Me: grabs both handles

This problem is solved by having paper towels (air dryers suck) and placing the paper towel trash bin next to the door so that you can use your hand-full of towels as a barrier between the handle and throw the towels away as you leave.

I don't believe there is good in human nature, so I'm going to remain grossed out by both handles.

They should put 110V through the top one.

first off, the clean handle should be on top. the nasty handle shouldn't drip onto the clean handle.

second, as you are leaving a public bathroom, reach under your shirt/jacket (hopefully something untucked. ) use the fabric as a barrier for your hand and grab the handle with the front of the shirt/jacket.

Someone who's too fuckin lazy to wash their hands isn't gonna take the time to read anything in public.

Paper towel, always. No paper towels? That's why you enter the bathroom with a napkin in your pocket.

I saw shit smeared on a bathroom door the other day, hand dryers only, no paper towels, it was so gross.

Which handle is for opening the door with my (washed) prehensile pp?

I like public restroom doors that have a handle like protrusion down near the bottom for your foot

Just get the foot door opener thing I love those things

At least I know the top one is sanitized.

Based on the differences in color for each handle it makes me wonder if the one for not washing your hands is a different material. Maybe an antimicrobial metal like a copper alloy.

And the reason school bathrooms can’t just have kitchen doors that you can back into to open from either direction?

This is a game theory scenario:

1. I’m too lazy too lazy to wash my hands or don’t feel it’s necessary. Upon encountering this door I see both handles and decide to follow their instructions and open the door for unwashed hands. My hands are now unspeakably filthy as filthy people following the signs have accumulated a ton of germs on this handle. I get sick.

2. I was my hands, follow the signs and use the washed handle. Unbeknownst to me some unwashed game theorists decided that obviously the handle for washed hands would be cleaner so they used it without actually washing their hands first. It’s now also filthy.

3. I didn’t wash my hands, I don’t give a fuck about signs, use the one most convenient for me.

Instructions unclear, genitalia stuck in the lower door handle. Send HALP

My germaphobia is so triggered

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I'd have to use a paper towel all the time, to open doors, and also use hand sanitizer to clean my hands. I'm that germaphobic.

I hate public bathrooms. HATE in bold

This could easily be because the top handle is in a more convenient spot so everyone uses it and nobody uses the bottom one, I can’t think of a reason someone would be so inconsiderate as to not wash there hands but so altruistic that they go out of there way to use the inferior objectively worse handle. And human nature would say nobody is going to care about the slightly inconvenient option after it gets boring, don’t believe me? Then why do so many people choose the convenient less boring option of not washing their hands?

This is probably a weird cropping, but I like to think this doors pushed open since there are no hinges on this side.

what if I do the opposite

Real boomer energy on these signs