Santiago Dreaming
I'm glad it's not just me who thinks about these things. I never open a door out with my unprotected hand (but I don't use a paper towel either - usually a bit of sleeve or bag or something). I also wash my hands before I use the facilities...
Good, do you use a paper towel to turn the water off?
By the time you get to the door, your hands are clean, and assuming everyone else followed the directions, the door handle would be clean. No need for a paper towel then. That's a lot of assumption, though. 
Kathryn, I assume not everyone else has followed directions and from what I have seen in most public restrooms, that assumption is true. Kind of icky, isn't it?
This surely is why the correct design should always be that exit doors (if there have to be any, better still just have dog-legged corridors) from bathrooms should have them opening outwards with just a push from a shoulder required.
I must admit like Witchy I tend to use a sleeve rather than paper towel but the principal is the same.
I used a paper towel and many people must be doing the same thing these days. More and more of the restrooms I've been in now have a wastepaper basket set right by the exit door. But you are right, NiC, it would make it easier if the door opened outward.
Good, do you use a paper towel to turn the water off?
If there's a plug for the sink, I generally run water into the sink, and then, after I've pulled the plug out, there's still water for me to re-rinse.
If there's not, I either wash the tap as I'm washing my hands, or, if it's a complicated one, I turn it off with my left hand little finger, and then wipe that off carefully.
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