re: Flushing the Toilet - what's so hard about it?

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Use your damn foot like the rest of us.

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In the US, there is a higher occurance of soil microbes on toilet handles than fecal indicator species.

People are gross.

Well...you can't piss or shite in the streets....unless you're in NOLA.

Flushing the toilet requires motor skills, some degree of intelligence and decision making skill, and and understanding of the concept of courtesy--all at the same instant.

For many human beings, harnessing these concepts and actions and orchestrating them simultaneously is ... beyond their capabilities.

In my first real apartment, there was a hot water leak in the bathroom that the maintenance man was called to look at. One morning, I took a crushing dump that peeled the paint off the walls, the type of movement that makes you proud. For whatever reason, I didn't flush. In comes the maintenance man and his assistant. "WTF IS THIS NASTY shite!?!" was yelled in some Slavic tongue and the ridicule needed no translation. Three things happened. A grown man flushed my shite in front of me, my hot water leak was fixed, and I haven't taken a duece in 10 years without checking 2xs to see if I flushed.

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I don't touch anything in the bathroom

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This.

We should do like the arabs do. Hire some indian to stay in the bathroom all day and keep the shitters clean.

I only take a dump if it is an emergency which is rare. I could care less where my pee goes. No, I don't flush my pee either.

public restrooms need to all be auto flush. I hate even touching the door handle. I flush with my foot.