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I honestly much prefer the traditional Asian toilets compared to the western ones with seats when I'm using public facilities. Usually the door doesn't go all t
by ralferoo 2y ago
I honestly much prefer the traditional Asian toilets compared to the western ones with seats when I'm using public facilities. Usually the door doesn't go all the way to the bottom so you can open and close it with your shoe, you can use a pre-prepared piece of tissue to lock the toilet door, go about your business clean up and use another small piece of toilet paper to unlock the door and your shoe to open it, and do all that without physically touching anything apart from your own body or your own clothes. Usually the flush is on a handle that just needs to be pressed and conveniently at foot height too. Unless it's an automatic tap, I'll usually operate the washbasin tap with tissue paper between me and the tap too.
Of course most Westerners have difficulty with the squat itself at first, but it doesn't take too long until you learn to balance properly. While I'd also suggest practicing the squat in the safety of your home first if you think this is going to be a skill you might need, in some ways it's easier to succeed in a public toilet when you're really strongly motivated against falling over! D:
- ta1243 2y agoGiven that you're washing your hands after I'm not sure the benefit The bigger problem is then opening the door to leave the room after washing hands
- ralferoo 2y agoYeah, I use a tissue barrier for that too. When I'm in Asia I usually carry around those little packs that have 10 folded tissues per pack. I normally tear one into quarters before I leave the street and go into the toilet, and use one quarter to deal with the lock shutting the door, one to open the toilet door (and after opening the door, operate the flush if hand operated), one to turn the tap off and one to open any doors on the way out. I also avoid the hand dryers, if present, as I think they just spread germs around. Hands usually dry pretty quickly anyway.
- SoftTalker 2y agoWhere I work we had some asian or middle-eastern folks who would try to use the standard American-style toilet as a squat toilet. I'm not sure of if they stood on the seat and squatted down or if they straddled the bowl and squatted but either way there was frequently shit on and around the seat. The janitorial staff became quite frustrated with it and someone posted a sign explaining that you had to sit on the toilet and not squat over it.
- pezezin 2y agoIt must be a big issue in Japan, because every public toilet around here has a big sign telling you not to do that, and explaining how to use the toilet properly.
- bamboozled 2y agoNot to be rude but this is usually for foreign tourists. Chinese and Indian seem to do this a lot.