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Originally Posted by wdfifteen View Post
I'm cautious about germs in public restrooms. Most of the ones I've been to have a door that opens in, so you can enter without touching the door with your hands, but have to grab a handle to open the door before you go back to your table to eat. Is there any reason they don't make the doors open out, so you use the handle when you go in, and just push with an elbow or whatever when you leave?
Yes. Yes there is a reason. Management like to tease germaphobes.

Seriously, around these parts, foot-handles are being put on such doors. -an upward facing cleat attached to the bottom of the door.

Hey, you must really love those WCs with those Dyson germ aerosolizers (and no paper towles)
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