Public Bathroom Etiquette...

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... & where it goes wrong.

For instance: why the hell do folks restocking the TP put the rolls in backwards, so you have to reach under and BEHIND the roll to pull, instead of just having the stuff right there to grab?

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: why the hell do folks drop the newspaper they read & left behind ON THE FLOOR when they're done w/ it instead of stowing it in a secure place (like behind the toilet flush thing) (or behind a roll) (or anywhere besides RIGHT IN A PUDDLE OF WATER)?

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

You sure it's water? Perhaps these people are not housebroken!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

leaving your reading for another person is creepy...

paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

RECYCLE

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

How the hell is it creepy? It's a public service (in the workplace). And it's not like I'm not going to wash my hands.

I'm also wondering why some folks in my workplace treat the stalls like most folks treat the stalls in the McDonald's on Broadway.

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

When I'm in a public restroom, my thoughts are, "get me the fuck out of this nasty shithole" .. not, "I wonder what wacky thing Dick Cheney did today." That is, I do not understand reading the paper, because that means you're getting comfortable.

dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Rule #72a: When standing at a crowded row of urinals directly next to another man, it is generally considered a breach of public restroom etiquette to reach over, grab his wee, and shout "Penis! The winner is penis!".

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Nick, you're getting a yellow card for that one. (Yellow.)

Maybe I shd make a distinction between OFFICE RESTROOM and NON-OFFICE RESTROOM.

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but A COWORKER SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TALK TO YOU WHEN YOU OR SAID COWORKER ARE IN A STALL. This is not the place for chitchat. If we're both standing at the mirror, that's another story.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer the under technique as opposed to the over for TP orientation.

Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, PLEASE DO NOT TALK ON YOUR PHONE WHILE YOU ARE ON THE TOILET. No one wants to hear plopping sounds.

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Jeff, B-but then it's further away! (by about two inches, ha ha)

Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

For any men coming to the UK in the near future, you should know that you will be thought impolite if, when standing next to another man at urinals, you do not say "Hey, nice cock," and wink.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

some people say the under technique saves paper. like you use less or something. i'm not buying it.

at work i go in to take care of business and the seat's down and is sprayed with piss! like they set one of those clown head sprinklers in there and let it go, except it sprinkles piss. "these are fucking adults!" i said out loud to no one. ugh.

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

JUST SEEN this lunchtime in SF - guy walking down an alley TALKING ON HIS CELLPHONE while using his other hand to URINATE AT AN ALMOST HORIZONTAL ANGLE WITH HIS PENIS. While wakling! At a fairly quick pace!

Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

while using his other hand to URINATE AT AN ALMOST HORIZONTAL ANGLE WITH HIS PENIS

I am having a difficult time parsing this. How do you use your hand to urinate with your penis?

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh come on, like we all haven't done that at some point in our lives.

n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

How do you use your hand to urinate with your penis?

How do you think he was managing to piss at such an angle, Dan?

Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Saw a guy standing at a urinal in the Lincoln Center movie theater -- while holding and eating from his popcorn bag. Haunts me still.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw a guy pee once while on fire & juggling chainsaws.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I now have a mental image of a dude diverting the flow of urine via creative thumb pressure. Bleah.

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe the over / under TP thing is a leftie / rightie thing?

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the under because it seems to hang better for easy grabbing, where as when it's over, it seems to cling more. Could just be my TP.

At the last Bulls game I went to, there was a guy peeing in the trash receptical in the bathroom.

Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Was he on his cell?

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I think everyone's seen that at least once. I've witnessed a guy using the sink at a bar.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I witnessed a guy who had second earlier been dancing to "Float On" pee in a shower stall. He tried to talk to me the next day and I pretended I didn't know him. Asshats!

absolutego (ex machina), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link

a coworker once saw a guy take a crap in the toilet bin.

moley, Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I had to drop a deuce yesterday and I went to the basement of the university library. I dropped trou, sent out the first missile, and suddenly realized that the stall-walls were higher than my waist. As a security measure they'd been set high-enough so that anybody could look in and see my hairy-ass legs propped on a pot of stool.

Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:37 (nineteen years ago) link

1 - Don't be a pecker checker.

2 - Don't take 10 minutes to do a bump in the stall, butterfingers, and I laugh if you bring your homie and get immediately busted, mr. four feet. Fuck your flaps, rookie, just use a baggie and your car key so you can do it anywhere you want.

3 - NO PUKING IN THE SINK YA FUCKIN BURNOUT

LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 2 April 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, PLEASE DO NOT TALK ON YOUR PHONE WHILE YOU ARE ON THE TOILET. No one wants to hear plopping sounds.

My biggest loo dilemma is always: what to do when the phone rings when I'm sat on it. It usually happens at least once a day at work, and I've still never really been sure what the best thing I do is.

(usually: ignore it, then when I get back to my desk look who called, and go to find them. It's the best solution I can think of, but it still seems rude somehow)

caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 2 April 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

where is the dilemma? why is the phone with you in toilet anyway?

i got really weirded out at work one day when i heard the HR lady talking on her phone in the toilet. it made me wonder what other things she does in the toilet, and what toilet-related particles have come in contact with my personnel file.

tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 2 April 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link

It's cordless, so people can get hold of me wherever I am in the building.

(plus, I have a mobile too)

caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 2 April 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

2 - Don't take 10 minutes to do a bump in the stall, butterfingers, and I laugh if you bring your homie and get immediately busted, mr. four feet. Fuck your flaps, rookie, just use a baggie and your car key so you can do it anywhere you want.

I have no idea what this means.

The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 3 April 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Consider yourself lucky!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 3 April 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link

when i'm done using the restroom, i like to fold the last sheet of t.p. into a point for the next user. you know, like hotels do.

ai lien (kold_krush), Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.urinaltest.com/

Richard C (avoid80), Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I think workplace restrooms should have little magazine racks, with a selection of thought-provoking reading material. Internet portals would be nice too. And maybe a little jazz (nothing too cheesy, just gentle -- Chet Baker or Sarah Vaughan, say). Oh, and one of those guys with warm hand towels by the sink.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate it when ladies pee all over the toilet seat and don't clean it up afterwards. Maura once wrote something about this.

Sara Sherr, Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I DID A POO IN ME GRANS FLANGE AND THEN ME OTHER GRAN CAME IN AND I DID A WEE IN HER FLANGE THEN GOOD TIMES

GARU G, Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

"And maybe a little jazz (nothing too cheesy, just gentle -- "

I thought you meant jazz-mags at first...

Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

if you go by stereotype, you may be surprised to know that women are no less nasty in the bathroom than guys, right? i've perfected the toilet squat. and the holding of breath for up to 2 minutes.

ai lien (kold_krush), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

when i'm done using the restroom, i like to fold the last sheet of t.p. into a point for the next user. you know, like hotels do.

Ai lien! I thought that I was the only one who did this.

I learned it from the cleaning crew of Fitzgerald's in Tunica.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I DID A POO IN ME GRANS FLANGE AND THEN ME OTHER GRAN CAME IN AND I DID A WEE IN HER FLANGE THEN GOOD TIMES

-- GARU G (GARU...), April 3rd, 2005 4:35 PM.

at what angle did this occur?

Amon (eman), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Somehow, a full roll of TP found its way into the bowl in one of my office commodes. Unless someone's a superklutz, it would have to have been placed / tossed there, & regardless, I'd love to know why that person didn't feel obligated to remove it from the toilet.

David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

tre, it's just a nice thing to do, you know?

ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha - someone walked in while I was doing my business, & the other two stalls were occupado. They stopped, saw the TP, then TURNED AROUND AND LEFT. Dude, just grab some paper towels, pick it up, and chuck it in the trash! (Were there not an open stall, I'd've done that.)

David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Well if some clumsy person dropped it and the bowl was already occupied i could understand their reluctance to reach in there to fetch it.

dual xpost

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

All I have to say, I have said before, so forgive me my repost:

An open letter to the disgusting fucker on my floor who never flushes the toilet after taking a crap:

Hi. Yeah you. You know who you are, you filthy little bitch (and I don't say that in a good way) - would it really be so much to ask that once you're finished evacuating your bowels that you flush the fucking toilet so the rest of us don't have to walk - always unsuspecting and sometimes with our mouths open - into the heinous stench you have so kindly left for us, wondering to ourselves 'DEAR GOD WHAT THE FUCK DIED IN HERE TWO YEARS AGO, SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE, CAN'T BREATHE.... DYING....'????? It doesn't take much, really... You finish, you wipe (I assume you wipe.. oh god), you stand up, readjust your clothing, turn around, depress the handle put there SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT PURPOSE AND NO OTHER and flush. You can even lift your little leg up and step on it for all I care. Just do it. Of all the unpleasant things I have to deal with during the workday, this really takes the shit cake. You win the big turd prize. A-number one. You go girl. Just please, for fuck's sake, when you DO, FLUSH THE FUCKING TOILET.

Thank you.

-- luna (luna_cee...), February 13th, 2004 9:14 AM.

PS: Please also wash your hands. The thought that you may not, and then you touch the same door handle I do, therefore transferring your shit particles onto my unsuspecting hand as I walk out the door gives me nightmares - and also forces me to re-wash my hands when I get back into the office, and for fuck's sake, lady, it's winter, they're getting chapped.

You gross bitch.

-- luna (luna_cee...), February 13th, 2004 9:16 AM.

luna (luna.c), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, luna, I'm always scared when I hear someone flush and then immediately hear their heels clicking their way out of the bathroom and the swinging door, but no faucet sounds. NOOO!!!

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Seriously! Also, I am curious to know how women pee in the middle of the seat.

luna (luna.c), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

For any men coming to the UK in the near future, you should know that you will be thought impolite if, when standing next to another man at urinals, you do not say "Hey, nice cock," and wink.
-- Martin Skidmore

As I, alas, certainly won't reach them great British isles in this lifetime, or most probably evah, I therefore use the chance to try and decrease my impoliteness quotient, and all bad w&c-karma thereof, by instantly heading for the toilet where, once inside, standing next to the tp roll, I'll pronounce loud & clear - "Hey, nice cock, Martin!"
;)

*goeth & pisseth with profusion*

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link


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