Also, @notolaf: The people in Mexico don’t get sick from the water because their body is used to the bacteria in it, just as your body was used to the bacteria in your well water. Another source would cause you to get sick.

That doesn’t mean it’s good for you. In fact, it just displays your body’s amazing ability to contain infection and adapt itself to not need to expunge it. Your body assumes that you are smart enough to avoid bacteria, and thus because you’re drinking water teeming with poop microbes it does it assumes it’s the only source of water around and thus contains and adapts.

Even though the well at my childhood home was PROPERLY dug and away from sewage, it still had traces of bacteria from being in the ground. After I moved to the city, my body was finally able to cleanse itself of the bacteria.

To this day, now that my body doesn’t have that level of bacteria in it, I still can’t drink the water at my parents.

The fact that you rarely get food poisoning has little to do with the fact that your parents were dumb enough to not check out the water table and well status in an old farm house and more to do with the fact that 99 percent of food poisoning is actually a virus and not a bacteria (such as the flu).

That’s right – When I was twelve, my parents bought a farm, unaware that the old hand-dug well and the old hand-dug septic tank were too close to each other. It was a real fun time until they figured it out and started putting clorox down the well periodically.

I NEVER get food poisoning, even when everyone else around me is groaning with it. Ever.
Constant low-grade exposure to germs is good for you. Really. Think people who live in Mexico get sick from the water?

Additionally, there is no way to police those stalls and restrooms. The people you are talking about more likely than not do not have microphobia or OCD, because there are people who simply “like” those restrooms, or are too selfish to wait at other appropriate restrooms.

At one older workplace of mine, we had one restroom that was used frequently by people coming in from the mall. Less than one in a hundred of those people were in wheelchairs, and less than one in twenty-five were anywhere near elderly; I’d doubt even a tenth of those remaining could have had OCD, microphobia, or another disability that wasn’t immediately apparent, but about half the people who went in there used the largest stall — the one meant to be handicap-accessible. People would go in there to try on (and sometimes steal) clothes from other stores, or to write on the walls, or just because it was some kind of novelty, I guess — but we couldn’t police it, because not only did we not have the manpower, but there are legitimate disabilities, physical and otherwise, that are not immediately apparent to strangers, and determining who truly had them and who didn’t would be nearly impossible.

Not only that, but, although it may be rude at times (especially when there are definitely handicapped people present, or when they aren’t using it for its intended purpose, or are making a mess) it really isn’t a restricted area. It’s a bathroom built to be used by everyone. I mean, you don’t tell people who are capable of walking without trouble they can’t use the handrail on the stairs, do you?

If you seriously have a problem touching the door, I’d recommend carrying hand sanitizer. Even places that provide paper towels run out of them at some point.

Not that that excuses tossing trash on the floor, though. I’ve yet to hear of anyone having a phobia related to basic manners.