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I find nothing stranger than people who use the butt gasket, but don't wash their hands.
I guess it's okay to give me their hand germs, but they don't want my butt germs!!! I guaranty their hands have been grosser places than my butt!
Very odd. I will be out with my friend, and she wants to leave, and go home, so she can use the bathroom.. I have this to a point, if possible, I would rather be home, not to her extent though.
And here I thought this thread was going to be about this 'Judge Judy' episode....
Always thought a great gag would be to install a pressure sensitive audio clip to public toilets when a certain weight threshold is applied. Imagine you sat down and about 10 second into doing your business you hear this tune get a little louder as you sit on the porcelain throne.
All fun aside, as others have mentioned, studies have shown the door handles, faucet / sink surfaces and many other areas have more bacteria and germs than a toilet seat! Regarding the germ heavy handles, this is why whenever I travel, I always have a few napkins in my pocket just in case a bathroom doesn't have any or the setup is one where you have to touch the handle (inward opening doors).
Often wonder why more bathrooms don't have the foot actuated sink faucets like in medical and certain commercial type business environments. must be a cost issue.
As for the *sound sensitivity and self consciousness* of some people, well, I find it hilarious. I keep envisioning that classic Saturday Night Live episode where all the stalls are occupied and those inside start singing "Under the Boardwalk" and tapping their feet. Or perhaps a parody of bittersweet symphony called "flatulence symphony"!
Trivia: Did you know Benjamin Franklin, he of Poor Richard's Almanac, wrote a humorous book on flatulence?
I do have a preference for those high end commercial toilets with a high pressure flush.
Double flushes and regurgitating commodes are not pleasant.
A tangential thought for those who believe in 'intelligent design' (and who may find the sounds unpleasant) Please explain the designer's intent?
I challenge you too, as I'd find the explanation humorous - especially when the fauna (according to creation story) were made first have better digestive systems and better utilize consumed contents. I'm waiting.
There is that self cleaning public toilet modular unit design that a few large cities have installed with a time elapse threshold. I'm surprised someone hasn't designed one for internal household set up with combination laser /heat/ wash.
I think if household water costs were weighted more toward water volume consumption and not as much for access and service fees, that more people would 'go' while at workplace or while in a business establishment.
I have never had an issue going in public places. I think this came from playing sports in school. Our locker rooms just had a bunch of toilets lined up with no walls. And the last thing you wanted to do was get on the field needing to go.
I've been commuting via public transportation for years. There's no room for being a special snowflake princess when you've been on a train for 90 minutes and have to pee--you use the bathrooms in the train stations, even though you know some of the dregs in humanity might live there. I've never caught anything--that's what seat covers are for, and when they don't exist, there's "hovering" as some here have put it.
No. 2 isn't such an issue. Unless there's some sort of unusual rumblings, that can wait.
I like to walk in the county parks in my area, and not long ago I found a new park with a 2-mile trail. It was early spring, though, and the building with the public bathrooms was not yet open at that time on a Sunday. I'm walking along, realizing I have to pee, and I thought about ducking into the woods along the paved trail thinking no one would be in there. I had some tissues in my purse. We ALL peed in the woods after drinking beer as teenagers, right? So I take the little trail into the woods--beautiful area, next to a reservoir, and I was seriously thinking I could pee there when all of a sudden a man and a dog I'd seen on the outside walkway appeared. I realized this little discovery of mine was a well-traveled trail, and this wasn't going to be a good idea. I just kept walking through the woods, then when I got back out to the paved trail, what do I see ahead but a Johnny-On-The-Spot, strategically placed out there just for people like me. I never was so happy to see a portable toilet.
I peed in Central Park last fall after the Black-Eyed Peas concert. There were tens of thousands of people leaving the park, I knew it would be forever before we'd get to our car, then we'd sit in traffic trying to get out of the city and our prospects of finding a toilet anytime soon were not going to be good...My friend and I ducked down a side trail and found some bushes, much to the consternation and embarrassment of her 14-year-old daughter and her friend. Hey, it was dark out. No one could see us.
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must be a cost issue.
