I think the worst parts of every day are using the bathrooms on campus. The bathroom really shows you how thoughtless and annoying most people are. First of all, they're all disgusting and smell horrible. They're never what I would call "clean." And that's surprising, because it seems every time I need to use the bathroom in Coates, it's closed for "cleaning". They especially like to "clean" them during breaks, so when you're cramped for time, you have to go to another floor or building. I don't know what the hell they're doing, but I can tell you what they're not doing. They're not mopping the floors. They're not cleaning the sinks. They're not making sure that there are ample paper towels and soap. I think all they do is run a toilet brush in the urinals. And it really shouldn't be such a bad thing if they do a half-assed job in cleaning, because ideally people wouldn't trash the place. But they do. Why do people feel it's acceptable to not flush a toilet? Why would they throw paper towels on the floor or leave them in the sink? Why the hell wouldn't you wash your hands?
Once I was in a bathroom at a highway rest stop. A father was taking his young child to the bathroom. After his son finished, he went to flush the urinal and his dad said, "Don't touch that. It's dirty." So they left without flushing and without washing their hands. Guess what buddy: when no one washes hands, the dirtiest place in the bathroom is going to be the door handle. It was a damn sad scene.
If I had to guess, I'd say better than half of people don't flush the urinals. Which is why the place smells so terrible. Probably 90% don't wash their hands. I just don't get it. And what I really don't get is people spitting gum in the urinal. So they're passing a trash can on the way into and out of the bathroom, but they're going to spit it out in their piss where the janitor is going to have to pick it up.
To put it in one nice sentence, the bathrooms constantly reinforce how disgusting and inconsiderate the vast majority of people are.
(Needless to say, I'm a man and this pertains to the men's restrooms. I haven't been in the women's, but I hear they're at least a little cleaner.)
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the women's rooms aren't that much better. The closest women's restroom at my school floods every time it rains. And sometimes when it doesn't. I have heard of ladies getting foot fungus from being in that restroom wearing open toed shoes. The next closest restroom is-no joke- a quarter of a mile away.
i hear that women pee on the seats too! how? i dont know.
i am so glad that my place of work is better about keeping the bathrooms clean. i think that it is only like that because the same people use it all day long. as soon as you get the word "public" in there, its all down hill.
Amanda was once telling me that they were having problems with someone smearing poop all over the walls and toilet. They actually took it another step to pick up their crap and wipe it where it didnt need to go???? I am glad that wasnt a men's room problem.
oh yeah, and people look at me weird when I am waiting to use a toilet and they dont flush, so I say "how about flushing the toilet?". Now that I am older and people dont think that i am just some rude kid saying it, I take every change I can to point out that people are gross.
about women peeing on seats... they do, and they leave it there for the next person! it happens from squatting, not sitting...
public bathrooms are horrendous.
(and i had no idea that urinals even flushed!)
I have to second Sabe here and say "urinals flush???" hah! News to me!
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