random rants from dunny & pants

I’ve wanted to rant about this for some time now…and since uploading 1GB of photos takes longer than I thought…here goes

The toilet. Probably one of the dirtiest places you come across…bar El Hadji Diouf

If you take a moment to think about it…

• All the germs from all the urine in and around the toilet (from non-so-perfect aimers)
• Faecal splash matter around the toilet, on the lid
• Germ splash matter all around the walls since apparntly the ‘flush’ sprays matter a few metres upwards (or so I remember from Mythbusters)
• The flush button is probably also really dirty because you always touch it
• The toilet roll holder as well since you come into contact
• And of course also the toilet scrubs would be especially filfthy

Now track what you do when you finish your business…

• You press the flush button
• You turn the light off by flicking the switch
• You touch the door handle to open the door
• You open the bathroom door so you can go in to wash your hands (if you have a toilet in your bathroom, skip this point)
• You turn the light on by flicking the bathroom switch
• You turn on the tap and wash your hands

Now read carefully….

• You use your clean hands to touch the DIRTY tap handles
• You use your now dirty hands and dirty them more by touching the light switch as you flick it off

Also everyone will now have dirty hands if they….

• Touch the handle of the bathroom
• Touch the handle of the toilet

So really, it’s probably ideal to TURN THE TAP ON before you enter the toilet, leave the light on (or stealth it in the dark bathroom) and the door open in the bathroom before you go to the loo.

Also, while you’re standing/sitting inside the toilet, you should do so in the DARK with the DOOR OPEN, so to minimise any germ transfer that other people in your family will have to encounter.

If you don’t want to do the above, could you argue there’s no point washing your hands?