A Public Thought About Bathrooms
This weekend I had the pleasure of going camping with my Love for 3 days.
And while I really enjoyed myself, I did not enjoy the bathrooms. The “outhouses” had running water (sort of) which annoyed me. In all honesty, I’d rather the hole in the ground type outhouses above actual toilets. Why? Because there’s no chance of clogging the toilet and leaving your waste there as a surprise for the next person to use the toilet after you. Of course, as with any type of bathroom, there is the chance of the person some how completely missing the toilet and plastering the wall with pee or letting their toddler finger paint with feces.
Which brings me to the main point of the post. Theatre bathrooms. Why do people pee, wipe themselves and then leave? Without flushing the toilets. Seriously. And why do people check the bathroom and move on to the next one when the toilet the just checked is full, instead of flushing it. Is it that hard?
When I go to a theatre, I drink a lot of water/juice/pop/whatever and then I have to piss like a race horse afterwards. So when I go into the girls’ bathroom, I don’t want to have to go into every stall to check to see if I can go. Seriously. If people would just flush the toilet when they’re finished, none of us would have this problem. Usually if my situation isn’t too urgent, I go through and flush the toilets until I find an empty one.
And one situation (told to me by my “mother-in-law”) is where women pee, and some how get it on the toilet seat and then leave it. They don’t clean it up, they just go. And the next poor soul comes to sit down assuming that toilet seats are usually dry, and sits in a puddle of cool pee. Not cool. And I’m thinking the reason for this is women standing (yes, standing) on the toilet seat and doing their thing. It’s actually (apparently) quite a problem in Richmond BC (not to far from where I live) where there is a large Asian community, and in one of the malls there’s signs in the girl’s bathroom indicating to the people, not to stand on the seats. I dunno. Apparently in China, or Japan, or Korea? Somewhere, people pee in holes in the ground. So it would only make sense to stand on a toilet seat to them. (I’m not being racist by the way, one of the people at work, who is Chinese told me about this)
So I’m sending out a public service announcment! Mainly to women.
1. Sit when you do your thing. Seriously. And FLUSH!
2. FLUSH! I don’t care how many times you have to do it, just make sure your shit is down the pipe before you leave the stall.
3. Don’t stand on the toilet seats.
4. If you somehow manage to get waste outside the toilet, clean it up. It won’t kill you. But it’ll make others gag when they come across it.
5. Don’t let your child shit and then paint walls with it. That’s gross.
6. Flush. For F*ck sakes, flush!
7. If you come across a toilet that has been left violated (read: not flushed) flush it.
That’s all.
I’d like to note that the further I wrote this, the angrier I got.
So don’t piss me off. And FLUSH! I haven’t come across a woman who just walked out of a stall without flushing, but if I do, the wrathe of bathroom etiquette shall be upon her. Let her soul rest in peace. *anger*
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