Your experiences disgust me. I used to think these horror stories were just one-offs, rare things. We’ve gotten department wide e-mails, twice, to ask people to stop wiping their boogers on the bathroom stall walls… twice.
I worked retail at a bookstore with a public bathroom and because I was low man on the totem pole, bathrooms was my gig all year long. I never went a week without having someone spray shit all over one surface or another, men and women alike. The floors were coated in piss every day. And don’t forgot, we sold porno mags off a rack right by the entrance to the bathrooms.
Human beings are fucking monsters.
Oh mens rooms can get pretty grody.
Not to take this even further down the drain, but at least pee on the seat is almost understandable. The guys are still jackwads for being too lazy to lift the seat, but i can understand the mechanics.
But on more than one occasion I’ve gone into a stall (stadiums most likely) and found entire turds. Like, how is that possible?
yeah. Armando has it.
I won’t let the guys take all the blame. Women bathrooms can get pretty gross too, but in a work environment, when that happens we’re not quiet about it. After all the talking, the number of passive aggressive notes on the stalls, on the doors, on the mirrors… it seems like something guys might not do, but it can get pretty tense. It’s usually things about soap and fragrance, clogged toilets, like huge paragraphs of instructions on washing hands… but the real gross stuff, was rare at the offices I’ve worked at.
Public bathrooms though are pretty awful, and one office we had to have a key to the bathroom to keep people from sleeping in them and escorts to the parking garage if we worked late. I do everything within the realm of physical possibility not to sure public restrooms outside of theaters which have been in pretty good shape.
I love being virtual for a number of reasons, and using my bathroom is one of them.
Oh I’m sure! I just, for obvious reasons, have more direct knowledge of the one.
That said my worst women’s room experience was when I worked at a dollar store. I remember walking down aisle 12, the food aisle, and seeing water on the floor. It took me a minute but I realized the water was coming from underneath the shelves. Some quick recon and I discovered the source. The women’s room, on the other side of the wall in the back.
It flooded 3 aisles.
I had to clean it up.
That sounds awful. I know one of the hospitals I worked at had tot close a few rooms and a hall due to some bathroom leakage issue, two floors. Thank god that was not my responsibility, but I hoped the staff involved got the kudos they deserved.
By design, hospitals basically have bathrooms open to the public, to everyone, with only some staff and sensitive areas secure. They’re typically really careful with those because you can have some really sick and fragile people using them. IT or groups like mine, sometimes are sometimes in another building… so our bathrooms are usually just a nightly cleaning, soap runs out, and we don’t get the air filtration systems either… we sucked smoke for like a month while getting company wide emails about how safe everyone else was due to the air filters we didn’t have. heh.
You could say, “Hey muthafucka, I just cleaned that muthafuckin toilet!”
Then you grab him by the back hairs on his head, and bring his head down and your knee up to meet his nose, repeatedly. aka @John_Many_Jars has it about right.
Actually, no, don’t do that. There’s a good chance the poor guy just wanted to use a clean toilet, and you cleaned it for him. That violence needs to be reserved for the muthafuckas who mess 'em up.
I found myself wondering tonight about how arbitrarily and inconsistently I apply my personal standards and tastes to the various forms of media I consume. I was a bit dismissive of some of the narrative choices comic books (and the associated films) make in another thread - but that’s not to say I dislike those things. I simply accept that they don’t apply any real attempt at telling internally consistent, well put together stories (in my opinion, and in general, not always in specific). However, in other media (books, movies, whatever), I’ll find the same shortcuts used, but mentally handwave it away and not think “Well, that was cheap and shitty”.
Another example - when people recommend fantasy books, one of the weird (to me) subgenres or points they’ll often highlight is “Man, that series is great - it’s got a really well thought out magic system”. When I hear that, I often immediately put the book\series on my “Don’t read” list because generally, I can’t stand overly complex, heavy handed explanations of magic systems, etc. I just want the adventure. Yet I’m the same guy who pored over the fuckin time travel explanation charts and descriptions for the movie Primer, thinking “Fuck yeah, this is awesome”.
It’s always weird to notice one’s own idiosyncrasies.
Which PRNG is best for creating random thoughts?
I thought of this thread just now when I visited the men’s room where I work - apparently someone had basically shredded a bunch of sheets of toilet paper and scattered them across the floor around the stall area. Not disgusting, they look like clean toilet paper, just really odd.
Are any of your coworkers of the feline persuasion? I’ve seen that before.
Well now you’ve got me wondering. I have noticed an unpleasant fish smell in the kitchen area around lunch time a couple of days recently.
If I were you I’d bring a spray bottle into the bathroom from now on. One shot in the puss will show them.
Goddammit Donald, Barron hacked into a random forum account and left it logged in on your iPhone again.
Fish do not shred toilet paper. Ever.
Nor do they respond well to being sprayed with water.
Not even these guys?
That’s not a fish, sorry.
He told me he was a fish. I don’t know what to believe.
If there is shredded toilet paper around, do not believe him. He is a cat.
Now you must be really confused.