This could easily have been
included on one of my traditional Uncomfortable Truths posts, but I decided to
devote an entire post to it, because I also wanted to ask for your feedback
specific to this Truth of mine:
When I use a public toilet, I always flush with my foot, and I am
a nester.
I don't reserve these tactics for only the most disgusting public
commodes, such as gas stations in the middle of nowhere. I also flush with my
foot at movie theaters, Costco and the office. (I don’t build a nest at
the office, but at gas stations? Affirmative. Two layers of TP, minimum,
between my bottom and that seat.)
The reason this comes up today is that one day last week, I
used the bathroom at the office and lifted my foot to flush. Only I was wearing
a newish pair of sandals, and the sole slipped right off the stainless handle,
sending me reeling toward the rear-left corner of the stall. I caught myself
before falling onto the toilet, but the toes on my right foot (my flushing
foot) took a beating.
My big toe bent back at a crazy angle, and the big toenail
and next toenail over were ripped. HOLY MOSES THAT WAS PAINFUL.
But I would like to go on the record as saying it was still
worth it. I will not touch that handle. Even at the occasional expense of my
toes. What say you? Do you flush with your foot? Do you nest?
Note: I do not recommend flushing with your foot when you’re
wearing mules/clogs. I almost lost half of a pair of Clark’s to a toilet that
way about two years ago.
