Dear one of the movie theatres on the peninsula,
Your women’s bathroom smells like urine. All the time. It REEKS, actually, and it has for months, at minimum. The piece of paper on the back of the door claims that it’s checked hourly, but maybe your employees have all had their sense of smell damaged. Every time I go to a movie in your theatre and use the bathroom (curse my small bladder!) I have to smell what can only be described as the stench of thousands of other women’s urine dried on to the floor.
While your bathroom itself isn’t fantastic it would be perfectly suitable if only someone would take a mop and some powerful cleaner to the floor a couple of times a week so I don’t have to hold my breath when I’m in there
—Teach Your Employees to Mop
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
then don’t piss on the floor … sit your fat ass on the (99% of the time non-infected) seat (using TP as a buffer if you’re a retarded germaphobe) and let it rain.
If you miss, what are the odds you’re going to reach down and wipe the floor?
odd of any random stranger?
hovering is not for pussies
lol
Suck it up, sweetcakes.
go buy yourself some …
DEPENDS !
Now you can remain in your seat…& enjoy the easment of your bladder, & the warming of your bum !
And instead of doing something useful, like I don’t know “TELL THE FUCKING MANAGER”, you come on here in the hopes someone knows what you’re talking about and fix it.
It’s not limited to the women’s washroom. Don’t waste your time complaining to the manager. Go above their heads and contact the company’s head office directly, and inform them you have begun informing other movie patrons online about this disgusting location. They hate hearing negative things and hate hearing about people spreading news like this.
LOL how the hell are women getting urine on the floor? It’s pretty hard to miss the bowl when you’re sitting on it… Unless they’re just peeing all willy-nilly on the way to the stall, spraying everywhere…
hahaha
Sometimes, the smell is just there and won’t go away … I worked as a waitress in a restaurant, and the bathroom was nasty smelling. During winter, when it was super slow, I scrubbed that bitch down with 1/2 bleach, 1/2 water. Every surface! Every wall! The entire floor! The next day, the urine smell was back. So, my point is, sometimes its not the employees fault.
I was in a random bathroom once and they had placed one of those coffee filter bags filled with coffee in the corner next to the air system. The whole bathroom smelled like coffee, it was great.
If this is the “peninsula movie theatre” I’m thinking of (there’s only one anyway, isn’t there?), then the next time you need to use the washroom run across the street to Onyx! Their washrooms are awesome: fancy and always clean with real towels.
You could, of course, complain to the manager there too. He’s the big fella with curly dark hair and has been there forever. A real prick to work for a I hear, but I’m sure he’d be more than happy to keep his female customers satisfied.
Public washrooms smell like urine, because they’re urinated in frequently. Also, people refuse to flush. Yeah the whole “if it’s brown, flush it down” works at home, but flush for fuck sakes, even if you take a bleedin’ leak! I can’t stand it when I walk up to a urinal and there’s some guy’s coffee-smelling brown ass piss waiting for me.
You’d be amazed how much more dirty female washrooms are (I’ve done some cleaning jobs in my day). Many females won’t sit on the seat so there’s splashing everywhere, not to mention the used “napkins” that somehow never make it to the special containers in every stall. Then there’s the lack of flushing. I’m not saying men are clean (why is there always piss on the floor under the urinal at Perks?), but it’s usually easier to clean a male washroom.
I’ll also suggest that the urine might be under the floor. The hallway in front of the driver’s washroom at Mumford has this problem because people love to piss there at night. It’s mopped nightly but the smell always lingers.
I think OP may be talking about the theatre on Quinpool, qpmzwonxeibcruv.
It’s old as ass (heh) so what do you expect? Is the floor sticky? If not it’s probably just the way the bathroom smells (50+ years of piss on the floor will do that).
Ahh shit, PK, forgot all about that one! But then again, would a private theatre like the Oxford have a “piece of paper on the back of the door claim[ing] that it’s checked hourly”? Sounds more like a franchisey thing to do.
If you want to try to be more “green,” it’s best not to flush every time you take a pee or poop, though far more recommended when you poo. Some places are starting to have “waterless urinals” a lot more now. I saw them a lot in Australia, where water is a much more scarce resource than here in Canada.
Cleaning jobs… eewww. A restaurant I worked at a few years ago had a constant problem with the men’s toilet backing up. Being a dishwasher at the time, I was of course responsible for clearing it up with a manual plunger. One busy day, there was a mound of probably at least 30 guy’s poop stuck in this one toilet along with water all the way to the top of the rim and little “finless browns” swimming around. Well I got the plunger right in there nearly vomiting and without even looking. Of course, it got stuck, and I realized I had to take just one quick look to see what I was doing and to tug really hard to get it out. Tug, tug, TUUGGG, PLOP! Out comes the plunger and dozens of poo particles all over the walls, the floor, and, of course, me, including my face and head. I had to finish my 10 hour shift with shit in my hair, literally. Not my best day at that job.
Febreze should fix that miasma. I hear they have them in little clip on minis…which is cute.
qpmzwonxeibcruv …. I think I just peed a little myself there. 🙂
I’m suck a sucker for the poop jokes… and I’m SURE you posted that for everyone to laugh at your sorrow so I don’t feel so bad.
something tells me I would be quitting that day or asking for one hell of a bonus.
Haha poop jokes are the best! Poop is hilarious. I look at it and just can’t help but to laugh.
women’s urine,dried on the floor you say.maybe the poor girl didn’t have a long dick and just stood on the seat,instead of say,using an urinal.and if you are a male,what the fuck you doing in there anyway.holy fuck,complain about the weather,or something more important.
Yep the ol hover.squat and piss new age germ o phobe thing . Personally – thats what i think . Me i just piss outside haha saves cleaning . Joke > Well if you wanna keep going to this theatre and they don’t clean it – heres a trick from doing dead body remidiations i still contract to do sometimes – alittle vicks rubbed under the nose – you won’t smell a fuckin thing and you can breathe too !! Bonus!!! If i can’t smell a dead body thats been there for two weeks stinking the place – you won’t smell piss and likely won’t smell that roaring shit someones taking in the next stall either . And even have time to read the metro also and no worries !!
The theatre on Oxford is owned by the same chain that owns all the other theaters around these parts, actually.
As luck would have it, I am an employee at the theatre in question. Washroom checks are part of the ushers duties every night (And the washrooms are checked more often than hourly provided we’re not so swamped with work that it’s impossible to get there)
However there is frequently no female usher which makes checking the woman’s washroom difficult as us males aren’t supposed to enter if there are any women within so please, contact management.
I promise that there is a core group of employees here that honestly do want to provide the best experience possible. But in that vein, if everyone who goes here could help us out a little and pick up your trash after each movie we’ll have a little more time to keep the washrooms as fresh as we can
Oh, and my comments aren’t representative of the company or anything like that. Hope to see you at the movies!
I’ve experienced this urine smell in the one that’s closer to downtown. While Oxford is old as the hills, and the bathroom’s decor is fugly, it’s always pretty clean and un-smelly.
heh heh… joker said ‘duties’
Yeah, I’m inclined to go with this theory: That theatre (in P.L.) has been there since, what, the early 90’s? It was renovated, but I’m pretty sure that’s the same tile work. After 10+ years of splashing urine, fecal matter, overflows, and (probably sometimes) lazy cleaning, I imagine the grout work is pretty saturated with more than just grout. The only thing that’s going to help that loo is a complete renovation. And really, it’s about time.