Things Not To Do In A Shared Potty Environment

[serinde]

In addition to the obvious ones that we all put up with in public restrooms such as "peeing on the seat", and the entertaining & special varieties encountered in $JOB-1's facilities such as "leaving the door open when you're doing your business" (!!!) and "smoking a doob in the tiny tiny stall", I can add a new one: However much you are relieved by your evacuations, please avoid an accompaniment (or counterpoint, as it were) of loud, contented gasps and groans. I don't need to know how much fun you're having. Really.

Comments

[shechameleon.livejournal.com]

Ew. Were I in your shoes, I would seriously consider minimalizing food and beverage consumption such that all elimination could happen at home.

[jayeye.livejournal.com]

You could retaliate by faking an orgasm (think "When Harry Met Sally").

Or you could simply say "shut the fuck up".

/ji

PS: The best thing about being a guy is peeing standing up :)

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Ewwwww!

[crypticgirl.livejournal.com]

See, this is one of the reasons I love having hearing that switches off.

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

I've long suspected that the reason for having gender-segregated facilities is so that men could happily believe that women were much less uncouth about their washroom habits. I've further suspected that this is so much hogwash, and that the illusion is in fact meant to run both ways.

[shechameleon.livejournal.com]

Naw. We know that men are gross in the restroom, and we mock the women who are. Particularly the ones who turn on the water and then don't wash their hands. Ew.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Y'know, on the bathroom annoyances scale, that's way at the bottom. (As the joke goes, "At Columbia, they teach us not to pee on our hands.") No. The #1 crime, well above the one I'm bitching about here, is the Peeing On The Toilet Seat. When I am god-emperor, that group will suffer fates that will scare children yea, unto the tenth generation.

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's my pet peeve too. Especially at work, where there is an element of insult to complement the grossness.

In other words, I will support your efforts to become god-emperor.

[shechameleon.livejournal.com]

I'm fortunate that although the restrooms here at work are generally sub-par, they are always stocked with toilet seat covers For Your Comfort, which people (or at least the seat-pee-ers) seem to utilize, so I have not yet encountered pee on the seat here.

It is a big pet peeve of mine at other public restrooms, though. Especially when I'm assisting one of my kids.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

And! What's worse! Is that, okay, so, one is too dainty to sit on the shared seat where who knows what arse has lain, fine, that's cool. BUT!

1) What makes you think that the rest of us want to sit in YOUR PEE, which is FAR FAR WORSE than an anonymous other's nekkid butt-skin;

2) How incompetent do you have to BE to not be able to get your widdle in the bowl?! *I* can pee hovering and still hit the target, and I don't think I'm any highly-skilled, beautiful & unique snowflake.

...I have had perhaps too much coffee this morning.

[must-sew-faster.livejournal.com]

While in a restaurant bathroom the other morning, I watched an airline stewardess leave a stall, stand in front of a mirror, fluff her hair and walk out *without washing her hands*.
I announced rather loudly to my audience (Katie) "I guess it's a good thing they don't serve food on airplanes anymore."
It's not pee on your hands that's bad in restrooms...it's all the fecal bacteria that pretty much lurk on all the hard surfaces. Whenever you flush, water from the toilet aerosolizes and pretty much lands on everything. Also, bacteria can move on their own, and often the dirtiest part of the public restroom is the lid to the little garbage can for used maxi pads and tampons.