I hate public washrooms. Call it a phobia of mine. I just can’t fucking stand them. I literally gag when I walk into one but what can you do when you have no other option.
Correct me if I am wrong but can’t we expect a degree of privacy even when using a public washroom? I am not there to have a conversation with someone I casually ran into on my way to the stalls, apply a full face of make up, or do my hair… I am there to take care of nature’s business.
Anyway I can go on and on but this bitch is about my recent experience at a Halifax restaraunt. I’m in the washroom. There are several stalls. At least 5. I appear to be the only person in the washroom.
I am just about to turn around to close the door to my stall when this woman barges IN to my stall. She said she needed some toliet paper to take back to her table so her mother could check her blood sugar. I kid you not.
What was wrong with the toilet paper in the 4 other EMPTY stalls or the paper towel there to dry hands? How is barging into someone’s stall socially acceptable? Not to mention she almost scared the shit out of me… literally.
I swear to God I may invest in some Depends… —Disgust-a-mundo
This article appears in Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2010.
Was the stall not locked?
I think OP was about to lock the stall.
Also, try living in a university residence with common bathrooms with stalls. Talk about lack of privacy.
The washroom is the 1st stop a friend of mine makes anytime we go to a restaurant in Halifax….he judges the entire place on how clean it is. If it’s unacceptable, we don’t eat there.
Remember, the staff who cook your food, serve your table, etc are the same people who use that washroom!
Speaking of restaurants…I went to mcdonalds for the first time in ages yesterday and I noticed the staff don’t wear gloves like at subway, for instance, when they put the burgers together…then I got to thinking about this guy I knew that worked at a mcdicks that used to masturbate in the washroom on his breaks and not wash his hands and then go back to making burgers. *shudder* sketchyyyy++++
I don’t think I’ll go back until they put gloves into the protocol!
YACK! thanks for that PK. Another reason to NEVER eat Mcd’s.
PK… except for a coffee & a muffin I don’t eat at mickey d’s
After reading your post… I think I’m going to start bagging my lunches !
Rotten Ronny’s doesn’t have the monopoly on disgusting employees. They are everywhere! That is the risk of eating from public places. Some people get off on treating unsuspecting diners to their filth.
sorry…WARNING: really gross http://www.smellypoop.com/images/photos/to…
OMG paingirl. I can’t believe you linked the picture. Please tell me that’s melted chocolate.
OP, hate to be picky, but phobia is an unreasonable fear of something, not reasonable negative feelings towards something. I also dislike public washrooms, but according to my hubby, men’s washrooms are even worse.
go to the carry your own potty website o.p., amazing shit there.
sorry newt, that’s why i put the warning. i think it’s real poop *shudder*
Holy crap. (In with the season, you see.)
that’s weird and something is just out of whack here; are you embellishing?
OP’s never been to a tavern… there you get to piss with a bunch if other drunken bastards in a big fuckin tub lookin thing. Doesn’t bother me all that much, then again I’m not a puss…
advice – don’t ever travel internationally….you won’t survive
haha chappy…the bushes will become your friend. that picture i posted is pristine compared to some loos i’ve seen
Well if its a choice between a) pissing my pants b) pissing outside c) holding it until I get home d) public washroom Hell hands down public washroom! Just wipe off the seat and hold your nose!
Employees wearing gloves doesn’t mean things are healthier. People who leave their gloves on for long periods of time while cooking pick up a lot of germs and crap as they’re going along. And they’re even less likely to wash their hands because they have gloves on. So unless they’re changing their gloves for every single thing they’re preparing, you’re just fooling yourself that it’s cleaner.
notsoNTH, your hubby is lying. Haha. Girls washrooms are far worse…
I occasionally am stuck with the duty of cleaning my coffee shop’s washrooms. The men’s has had some incidents in the past, but nowhere near as bad as the women’s. Everytime I go in there there’s toilet paper strewn about on the floor, bloody toilet seats, unflushed toilets, used pads/tampons not properly disposed of, you name it. It’s ridiculous. :-/
I always get back at them by leaving the toilet seats up, though. 😛
Jdp – you is fuckin’ OG. >; )
OMG a STRANGER talked to me!! The HORROR!!
lol jdp…since my hubby has never visited a women’s public washroom, he only knows what I tell him. I guess I am yet to see the horror of real public washrooms. But then, there was one in Alberta that was so horrific that my then-boyfriend told me “don’t go in there. I had to stand 3 feet away from the toilet and try and aim.”
the bear peed in the sink once, because even the urinals were plugged with poo plus barf
You’ve seen some hell haven’t you, paingirl.
i’m old newt, i have seen some wacky stuff in my almost five decades…wheeee
Sambuca on the monitor. Thank You very much NotsoNewt.
Not as old as the resident evil who shall not be named. I hope that one day I will be able to claim that I have seen some wacky stuff in my life. That sounds like a good, fun life. 🙂
What did I say so your monitor got wet, Ivan the axis of evil?
sambuca eh? yummy. that scene in a christmas carol is towards the end of the film in the morning. i don’t like the colourized version at all. i didn’t want to go back to that thread because it seemed inappropriate “in keeping with the situation”
I imagined you saying “You’ve seen some hell…” in a very dry, Newhart type voice and it just went downhill from there >: ). Yes, I do like a small glass of buca after supper and you are right on both counts Painey.
By the way, why does your avatar look like it could have come from the Pixar film “UP!”?
There was a really subtle geo-political subtext in “UP”. *Narf* But with tensions rising on the Korean peninsula, I decided to salute the Axis of Evil with the Kim Jong-Il puppet from Team America. My favorite scene – Susan Sarandon goes splat!
hey paingirl, I’ve comissioned 2 ships, and pissed in the captains sink on both occasions, not because the toilet was full:-)
you have lived large my friend…lovin the avatar
Lol – thanks painie, it was a bit of a tradition, and lots o’fun at the time.