I'm assuming at home we all flush the toilet by hand, but in public restrooms what do you do? do you flush the toilet by hand? or do you kick the flush lever?
What is your reason for doing this?
Do you think a foot-pedal would be better than a lever as a means of flushing the toilet?

now folks, this is very serious business, treat it as if you would a new-born child, with tender-love and care.

I personally kick the lever because, despite not being that big a germaphobe, I still don't care to touch anything in public restrooms. And I do kinda sorta feel cool kicking something

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In public bathrooms I kick at home I use my hand.

kick the handle if in public.

I rarely go to the bathroom in Public Restrooms, as I am a bit of a germaphobe. I'll go pee, that's fine, and doesn't require me touching a lever(usually, as most are automated now to flush once the stream stops). I'll only drop off a load in the most dire of circumstances(ie: i'm about to crap myself), and I'll ONLY do it in places like Wal-mart. Gas stations are 100% no-go, period. So, again, Wal-Mart bathrooms are auto-flush, and if they don't, I'm not going to bother trying to find that tiny flush switch they put on them(seriously, they are like the size of a pin and require you to get up close and personal with the toilet to find).

I yank it. Germs are a piss-poor excuse for kicking it, I must say. Unless you intend to similarly kick down/open both the door to your stall and to the bathroom on your way out.

If I have to use a public latrine as a last resort I kick the handle. Home I don't care. Public I will never touch one of those things.

Also I don't literally kick it(to address post above and below who seem to think people literally kick the hell out of them), I place my foot on it and just move my foot only to flush it. I don't kick that [censored] like im breaching a house.

I've never seen or heard of anyone kicking flush handles. To be honest, I probably wouldn't do it for the sake of embarrassment.

*roundhouse kicks the flush handle*

Fellow bathroom goer: "You done taking a dump there, Bruce Lee?"

Yeah. . . I don't think so. I'm all for hygiene, but I'll just wash my hands instead of trying to avoid getting them dirty. However the foot pedal thing sounds awesome!

I know where all the good public restrooms are and they all use auto flush sensors

No kicking or grabbing involved unless something horribly non-bathroom related is happening

IMO, kicking it is pointless. It's generally good practice to wash your hands before leaving, so it matters not what you did with the handle, just as long as you aren't daft enough to stick your fingers in your mouth before reaching the sink or something. If you freak over the door handle, use a paper towel. If unavailable, use your shirt sleeve if it's that big of a problem to you. :shrug:

I don't care if I was my hands or not(which I always do) I don't want to touch something some idiot probably purposely pissed all over.

:rofl:

But yeah, that reminds me, most public bathrooms around here have automated flushes too for the urinals. And for the toilets there's a button thingy.

Listen...listen there are worse things in the world than bathrooms. Like desks for instance. Ever consider how many people in school have sat at, put their hands all over for hours on end, slept and drooled all over, the desk you sit in?

Anyways after cleaning public heads every other day for two months I don't really care anymore. Germs are germs. Wash your hands, don't touch your face, and you'll be fine.

Neither. I haven't seen a flush handle on a public toilet in the last couple of years, around here they've almost all (barring, say, the nasty gas stations you wouldn't enter the restrooms of anyway) gone to the motion/proximity sensor auto-flush, urinals and toilets alike.

Not that I care...grow up on a farm, butcher a few animals, shovel a few stalls, fertilize a few fields and you learn when to wash your hands before eating and develop enough immune system to not worry about it. (Or else, pretty much...hehehe)

Only toilet I ever kick-flushed was what amounted to a large permanent porta-potty (public park outside municipal sewer pipe range in "Middle of Nowhere" outside Xenia, Ohio) with a flush pedal anyway.

I still hold my breath whenever I enter the bathroom... And I kick the handle. And I also use the paper towel to open doors.

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The only thing I kick is the door open. I mean, I'm washing my hands anyway.

I kick to flush, and I think that a foot pedal to flush would be a nice perk.

i kick to flush or use the toilet paper to grap it then just leave the toilet paper on the floor. i also open up the doors with a paper towel.

Public restrooms are nasty, I'll only do number 1 and I'll attempt a kick. If a kick isn't possible well im sorry, I just move on.

I grab toilet paper and use my hand

Unless its a public toilet with infrared flush activation, I don't flush at all. Why take such a fun task away from the janitorial staff?

kick.

By hand... I'm washing my hands 5 seconds later.

Sometimes I give it a good roundhouse kick when I'm in the Chuck Norris mood.

Kick, or push...at least we're flushing it.

I've seen the atrocities of the ones who dont flush. I think they enjoy leaving it there for others to see.

I usually kick the toilet handle, or grab one or two squares of toilet paper and flush it by hand.

If they went to pedals, it would be much more sanitary. Since I live in the dorms, I would actually like that since the bathroom is communal...