The Restroom Etiquette Rules People Are Constantly Breaking Quiz

In a shared bathroom, allow the female employees to decide the policy on whether seats should be kept up or down. While some women like them kept down to avoid falling in, others prefer seats kept up to avoid accidental splashes.

Faced with three stalls in a row, men and women will always choose the stall all the way to the right when the one on the left is occupied, leaving a valuable buffer for privacy.

When a man has a neighbor at the urinal directly next to him, it takes an average of 8.4 seconds to start urinating. When there is a one-urinal buffer between men, urination takes only 6.2 seconds to begin, on average.

A target in the urinal reduces accidental spillage and splashing by a whopping 80 percent.

People don't like to come in contact with others' urine, which explains why only 2 percent of women sit directly on the seat. Another 85 percent squat or hover, while the remainder use seat covers or build a toilet paper nest.

Hang up the phone while you do your business. While you're at it, skip the small talk with others attempting to steal some privacy at a stall or urinal.

Nearly two-thirds of people surveyed admitted using their cell phone in a public bathroom. Ten percent of respondents even admitted to making online purchases on the porcelain throne.

Women are TP hogs, using an average seven squares for every two used by a man.

Around 72 percent of people prefer to hang their toilet paper so it drapes over the top of the roll. Interestingly enough, wealthy individuals are more likely than poorer ones to hang their toilet paper this way.

In a study, 93 percent of women washed their hands after using the bathroom, while just 85 percent of men did.

A restroom habits study found that just 50 percent of men who wash their hands actually use soap, while 78 percent of women lather up.

It takes 15 to 20 seconds of hand-washing to kill germs, but the average person scrubs for just six seconds.

While a kindly reminder sign increases the percent of women who wash their hands to 97 percent, these signs actually make men less likely to wash up.

An estimated 64 percent of people flush with their foot. While this may leave hands cleaner, it transfers bacteria from the floor to the flusher, making it dirtier for the next user.

No sources show any evidence of someone picking up an STD from a toilet seat.

Women spend about twice as long as men in the stall, outlasting them by an average of more than 60 seconds.

Wet hands spread bacteria more easily than dry ones, so always dry your hands thoroughly to avoid spreading germs.

Paper towels are more hygienic than hand dryers for drying hands because dryers can spread bacteria around the room.

Flushing a toilet with the lid open sends fecal matter shooting into the air, where it can spread to handles, faucets and even your toothbrush.

Because toilet seats get wiped fairly often, they are surprisingly clean. In a women's restroom, the germiest surface by far is the napkin disposal box.

Just 63 percent of people flush the toilet every time, and women are slightly more likely to flush than men.

Etiquette expert Emily Post suggests keeping both the seat and the lid down on your home toilet at all times.

The stall closest to the door is the least used in a public restroom, so it's a good choice for germophobes.

Almost one in five people — 19 percent — admit to dropping a cell phone in the toilet. Save your cell phone and mind your manners by not using your phone in the bathroom.

In a survey of 200 tablet owners, 35 percent admit to using the device in the bathroom.

The rise of bathroom cell phone use has led to phones covered in fecal bacteria, which can make you sick.

Around 25 percent of soap dispensers in public bathrooms are contaminated with fecal and coliform bacteria, which means you could actually make your hands dirtier by washing them.

Men are not only less likely to wash than women, but also more likely to lie about it.

Hand-washing gets hands cleaner and kills more germs than sanitizer, but a sanitizer containing at least 60 percent alcohol will work in a pinch.

After George took a book into a bookstore bathroom, the bookstore forced him to buy it, then flagged the book so that he could never return it.