Mildly Infuriating

Any handle or surface in public areas, assume the person that handled it before you had just finished taking a monster shit and skipped the handwashing before rubbing their pathogen-factories all over it. Photo in OP, there's not really a good option, so you're in damage control mode... check for toilet seat liners that some public restrooms stock and grab one of them? At least that's something the other people handle before getting shit all over their hands.

One of the nastiest assignments I've had working in a hospital was 'Handwashing Monitor'. And let me tell you, I've debrided infected wounds; wiped maggots out of some fucker's pannus; cleaned up every bodily fluid our bodies are capable of cranking out from the floor, walls, and sometimes ceiling; helped amputate limbs that were literally rotten to the bone, and wiped a cumulative mile or two of ass crack...

...apply to nursing school today!!...

...but anyway, Handwashing Monitor. It is beyond appalling the number of patients, visitors, techs, nurses, doctors, housekeepers, you name it... who'd go in and out of patient rooms without performing hand hygiene; or they'd wash their hands, but for like half a second; or not use soap; or turn the faucet on with their grimy-ass hands, do a thorough handwash, then immediately contaminate themselves by grabbing that same dirty-ass faucet with their bare hands to turn it off. The thing that made that position take the crown above all the other examples I gave in the previous paragraph was the realization that the community who is THE single most painfully aware of pathogens and their origins / mechanism of spreading... can't even wash their fucking hands!

...which brings us back to my opening sentence: it's not advice on sheer ick factor, but a reasonable assumption based on directly observed evidence.

And no, this wasn't just a particularly icky hospital: I've worked in multiple states for multiple organizations/facilities, and to this day get eye-rolls for asking people to re-wash or even first-wash their hands.

We nasty. Be a germaphobe. End rant.

Anecdotal evidence but, the most common touch-less features in a bath room are the dryer and soap, the two things you only ever touch once and when you are not in a transitional phase.

The sink I tend to find is usually a handle you have to physically touch, when dirty and when clean, it is such a waste. Bring back the Elementary School foot pedals for sinks (and toilets for flushing).

I randomly mentioned that if I ever find a used Hospital Surgery Scrub Sink, I will repurpose an area in the house just to use it.

Mythbusters did a segment that showed the air dryers are more likely to spread germs. So it's just awful all around

I saw a bathroom like this that had the metal thing for you to pull the door open with your foot instead.

The door required the handle to be turned in order for it to open.

I mean unless the air blowing on your hands was freshly filtered and uv sterilized that is going to be an issue to.

in 2020, i learned that hands are not needed for opening and closing things

Who cares?

Ever since Covid, I have opened doors with handles like that using my pinky finger because I don’t use that for anything important, especially not touching my face and it helps minimize the spread of germs

Obviously it doesn't work on these types of doors, but I really liked the foot grips that were installed on bathroom doors at the height of the pandemic. It makes no sense to me why they were removed

I would simply pinch the handle between my absolute dumptruck bootycake cheeks

I know the pain, but both of those touchless options always suck. The water never stays on or doesn’t turn on unless you motion in one specific weird spot that’s either too close or too far away. And those dryers never dry your hands well enough. I’m grateful they never had touchless doors in the same way.

Though I have seen newer foot style doors that have a small piece of metal at the bottom you can “grab” and pull open.

Use your elbow, or your foot.

Yess so you go into the stall and grab some shit tickets so you don't have to touch the door handle and then Ooop they didn't put a trashcan anywhere near the door.

I understand not everyone is gonna shell out for a hook so you can operate the door with your foot, but at least put a trash can in throwing distance of the door so I don't have to touch the nasty ass handle with my clean hands.

How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?

If even the doors stop touching me, what will I have left?

This is why I always bring two dinosaur grabbers. One for me cock, and one for the door.

just stand there and wait until somebody comes in, like everyone does

This (and a lot of other reasons) is why I carry a handkerchief.