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You clean your hands but then you have to touch a probably dirty handle to open the door.
I worked security in pubs, nightclubs and licenced venues for a decade and to this day, I do not wash my hands in public bathrooms. I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
My wife thinks its gross but Ive seen shit that cannot be unseen.
Why does any of that lead to "I don't wash my hands"? In what scenario is washing your hands the dirtier option? Unless somebody took a shit in the soap dispenser, your hands will be cleaner after cleaning them.
Please clean your hands.
Maybe their bathroom has a manual handle to turn to get the water to start and stop.
Then use the same paper towel they use to open the door to shut of the faucet.
You need to use the paper towel to turn on the faucet, then wash your hands and turn it off with the towel again.
A lot of bathrooms don't even have paper towels, so OP possibly is at a bathroom where there's a manual faucet and no paper towels.
They said there are towels but they don't wash their hands.
Oh true, I dont get it then. I guess they just don't like spending time in The bathroom.
People don't know they can hang on to the paper towel to open the door, then Kobe that shit on the way out?
A lot of places put the waste basket by the door for this very reason.
Use the paper
There's definitely solutions to the problem. You could carry disposable gloves. People with dogs carry plastic bags everywhere. That could work in a pinch. You could wedge the door open and use your foot to open it to leave.
I personally just try to not use public toilets as much as possible. I carry hand sanitizer spray and a bottle of water in my backpack. It's definitely gross, but it's not unsolvable.
Is this the sort of thing people worry about?
Yes? Like brushing your teeth? Or showering?
Some people, definitely. I get that it's gross, but I also worked as a janitor and worked in landfills. I've dealt with much worse.