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If you hear the flushing when the person exits, they didn't wash their hands.
If they're zipping up while walking out, that's 100% confirms it
Sometimes I'm double checking my zipper on the way out after I washed my hands. Rarely, but simetimes, it needs adjusted.
Are the sinks inside the cubicles in America then?
Why would cubicles be marked with gender separators? Isn't it usually the entire bathroom with sinks inside?
Then why would we think the person exiting hasn't washed their hands? Surely it's more likely they're just heading to the sinks.
What I meant is that this looks like the outside of two bathrooms, each having stalls and sinks inside. I haven't really seen any bathroom where the stalls are separated but the sinks are not.
Only rarely.
So they're more likely just heading to the sink to wash their hands.
In that very rare case, yes.
But the first commenter in this thread said it like it was normal
If you're at a house, the sink is always behind the door which is the context this rings true to me. Or if you are waiting outside a commercial single occupancy bathroom. Those used to have men and women signs but today often times they're not gendered.
I went to one bar once that had private cubicles with no sink inside, and a shared sink for everybody.
I guess I've never seen a "cubicle" with a sink inside but I have seen single occupancy bathrooms.
What if you hear the flush of another person?
Maybe not.
For example, there may not be paper towels, just toilet paper and no bin. You wash your hands, dry them with toilet paper and then flush that down together with the rest.
Of course, I know what you said is what people think so my route is: Do the business -> Wash hands -> Dry with TP -> Flush the TP together with the rest -> Wait hand-washing equivalent amount of time -> Exit.
Why not dry your hands on your clothes and not waste the tp?
If it's single stall, maybe. There's no lock on the door, so this is a multi-stall bathroom and it's most likely someone else's flush.