public toilet etiquette

[happy_face]

When going to a public toilet where they have one of those hand towel things you pull to get a clean piece out, is it not common courtesy to pull out a clean bit for someone else after you have dried your hands?

Maybe I'm the only one who does this but I think it's annoying when you've just stood there and cleaned your hands and then have to touch someone elses grubby piece of towel.

[metagirl]

usually when I encounter those in the toilets they never have any clean bits left. yuck.

[WendyS]

Totally agreed, but what's even worse is those big public loo roll containers that hold half a mile of toilet paper and some thoughtless person yanks off a piece, leaving the remainder of the roll locked inside so that you spend half an hour rolling and rolling the paper around, desperately trying to find an end to grab hold of. (Even worse when you know your other half is waiting patiently outside thinking "Why the heck is she taking so long? Is she spending a penny or ten pounds worth ??"

[maggie01]

I always make sure I leave a clean piece for the next person but if there is a hand drier, then I prefer to use them

[maggie01]

I don't think it is getting obsessed or neurotic about cleanliness. I think it's just about being thoughtful to other people. A bit more of it in this world wouldn't go amiss.

[don1]

What you have to remember happy-face is that in Britain good manners went out of fashion thirty years ago, the English are the most ill mannered people in Europe, and generally disgrace us wherever they go.

As my father used to say "I'm glad I'm on my way out and not my way in"

So am I

[CheekyChops]

I'm sorry, I consider myself to have good manners and I have never pulled out a clean bit for the next person. Just because it never enters my head to do so, not for any other reason!

Anyway, nobody uses the whole width, there is always a small space either side for you to tug at to get 'your' clean bit!

[woofgang]

well I agree that it is good manners to be considerate in these comparatively minor ways, but ask yourself whether you want to tug your own clean bit or use a ready tugged bit of towel that has been touched by someone who may not have washed their hands thoroughly?

I tend to grasp the towel high up by the mechanism and tug my own...but I also roll on after use as well. I work in the health service and we get regular and nauseating lectures on infection control, it makes you look at life in a whole different way!

[funnywebsite]

I know what you mean it is very annoying. I always pull it down after I have used it but very rarely find anybody else does the same thing.