Sloppy Customers

[ea56]

Sarah,

the thing that annoyed me the most about the urine on toilet seats in these beauty shop restrooms was that all my life I’ve heard women complaining about men peeing on the toilet seat! My Mom taught my brother and I to leave the toilet seat up, which we always did. In fact the toilet seat in my Mom’s home and my home always has the seat up. We put it down when necessary. And we wipe off the rim of the bowl before flushing if there are any stray drops on it.

Then about 25 years ago one of my adult nieces complained about this! She doesn't want to have to put the seat down when she wants to use the toilet. So get this, she required her husband and three sons to sit when urinating so she wouldn’t have to put the seat down herself! Once when we were all on a hike in the woods her youngest son who was 7 at the time was completely flummoxed when he had to pee standing up in the woods, he didn’t know how to!

I give up, you just can’t please some people! But I do commend you for your simple solution to just leave the seat up and squat in a public restroom. You get a star for this!

But it wasn’t just the urine on the toilet seats in these restrooms that was a problem. The failure to properly dispose of menstrual pads and tampons, plus the blood that was also sometimes left on the seat was the last straw. No one can tell me that a woman can’t see that she’s left red drips on the seat when she gets up from it. It’s just common courtesy to clean this up before you leave.

I’ve seldom seen a mens restroom as filthy as some of those unisex restrooms in places I worked in.

Eddie

 

[DADoES]

 
I always sit on the toilet for urination, per a previous discussion started by me.  Urine splatters on the seat isn't the only effect of standing.  It also splatters on the walls beside the toilet and drips on the floor in front.  I stayed for a week last year with friends (two males).  The yellow, varyingly dried and wet-sticky mess on the floor in front of both toilets was gnasty.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

my pet peeve

That's my pet peeve of people misusing detergent or the machine to begin with.

 

[launderess]

Among litany of reasons now avoid launderettes like plague is washers with dispensers caked with liquid detergent or FS residue. Oh and joys don't end just there either.

Detergent placed in fabric softener section of dispenser seems to happen fairly regularly at one located in our area.

On rare occasions one is forced by circumstances to use washers (items too big/bulky for any of my European washing machines), have resorted to bringing rags and paper towels. Donning latex gloves thoroughly check and if necessary clean out dispenser sections.

 

[circlew]

The absolute worst instance of thoughtlessness (or just plain meanness) occured when I worked in a paint & wallcovering store. It was part of my job to keep the restroom clean. One day I went into the restroom, and there was a foul odor. The toilet was flushed and clean, so I thought perhaps someone had put a soiled diaper in the trash. I checked, and it was worse than that - someone had actually had the nerve to take a dump in the wastepaper basket. I had to take the bag out to the dumpster, and wash the waste basket. So gross!

 

[fan-of-fans]

I sit on the toilet at home to avoid these urine spots on walls, cabinets, baseboard, toilet tank, on floor, etc. Peeing produces splashes and stray droplets even if not visible on toilet rim itself.

I can recall at a previous job a coworker complaining about how her son had left the seat up on the toilet and she not noticing proceeded to sit on the toilet and fell in.

 

[sudsmaster]

My solution has been to pee, standing, into a plastic urine colleciton flask (like they might give one in a hospital), and then dump that into the toilet (seat up or down). It keeps the splatter off the walls and floor (not that I noticed any), at least for the master bath.

The guest bath might be a different story, but it's been a few years since anyone used that one.

Then there's always the back garden.

 

[sarahperdue]

Oh, my, pee and bathrooms

Yep, even when men don't miss, there is still splatter.

I tried to train my crew to put the seat and lid down every time they finish. Everyone, men and women, has to put the lid down. No women who forget to look fall in or end up sitting on the rim. (And for those with dogs, it keeps the dog from deciding the toilet bowl is the tastiest water in the house.

The public laundry situation...is there any way to win? I've confessed before that I"m a pretty terrible house keeper. Especially when the kids were small, I would go to the laundry mat when our laundry piled up because I could knock out a bunch of loads simultaneously. This coming week, I'm going to be hand washing our down comforter in the bath tub to avoid the public laundry.

Sarah

 

[iej]

I had no idea why the leaving the toilet seat up discussion was such a big deal in the US until I encountered American deep filled bowl toilets. Now I understand! Why is there so much water in them? It doesn’t make any sense. They bowls also often seemed much lower than here.

There are a couple of things in the US that really took me aback about toilets in the US, other than the high filled bowls. I noticed in the context of office and university campus toilets, often the partitions and doors in cubicles had designs that wouldn’t go down well here at all - lots of see through areas - low walls, huge gaps. I even used one that had louvered doors. Irish toilet cubicles tend to be designed with *absolute* privacy in mind and lock that displays ENGAGED when there’s someone inside … just in case.

The toilets on trains even announce “Press the Door Lock Button to Ensure Privacy!”

I’m not saying this as some kind of critique. I live in a country that has a habit of installing sinks with separate hot and cold taps for absolutely no reason other than it was traditional and was fond of fully carpeting bathrooms back in the 1970s, but there are quirks of plumbing everywhere and I think we are often blind to our local ones.[this post was last edited: 6/6/2022-11:55]

 

[sarahperdue]

Horrifying carpeted bathrooms

We had those here in the US as well. Ugh!

 

[qsd-dan]

We had those here in the US as well.

Grew up with the downstairs 1/4 bathroom having it. It was a WTF moment when we moved in, in 1985. It was removed shortly after but the original 1970 green shag carpet throughout the rest of the house remained until 1995 against my mothers wishes because my brother and I loved it and my dad was cheap.