But to tell you more information than you want to know, I have to pee too often not to use them. Maybe it's the trying to drink more water, but inevitably at some point, I'm going to be using a public restroom.
To make matters a bit worse, that's basically what our restroom is at work. The 70s-tile-laden room doesn't smell as bad as most public restrooms, but it's still not pleasant for me to walk in and hear someone else peeing - or worse. I just don't like to listen to someone else using the bathroom, and I don't assume they enjoy whatever trickling tune I might be sharing either.
The door on our bathroom makes a unique squeaking sound, and since it's just about 10 paces down the hall, I can hear it. So if I have to go, I try to go when I haven't heard the door in a while. But then, half the time someone walks in while I'm in there. Sometimes these people take their time, fixing their makeup or popping a zit or whatever the heck they are doing in there. The whole time I'm thinking, "OK, it's time for you to get out of here now."
Then there's the chance of running into someone you haven't spoken to in a while. Do you have to get reacquainted in the bathroom of all places? I don't want to be rude; I just don't want to converse all day in the bathroom.
Recently I've been a bit annoyed by another common occurrence: foam instead of soap. What the...? I just want soap. Where did this foam thing start and why? We have that at work now. I don't know if it's suppose to save them money or what, but it seems like good ol' fashioned soap and water would kill germs better than foam and water! Weird.
And to top the cake, now I have to think about bringing a child into a public restroom. I just don't see myself using those changing tables hanging from the walls. GROSS! And then when he gets older, I'll have to bring him into the ladies room when it's just me, tell him NOT to touch the toilet seat and try to exit the room free of toilet paper stuck to his shoe... or mine.
I'm a fan of the don't-have-to-touch so much restrooms, where there's some little maze to get in, sensors on the sink, etc. But still.
Yes, I just wrote THAT much on using a public restroom. You know you hate them, too.
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OMG! I was totally going to post this same blog the other day!!!
The bathroom at work is right behind my desk, and the door sticks so there's this LOUD grating noise whenever it opens or closes. I hate announcing to the world, "I have to pee!" just by opening the door. And I hate peeing with other people in there. And I do NOT want to have a conversation while I'm peeing. Seriously, why do people feel the need to talk on the pot? I mean, all this stuff with you would be fine, but at work, nuh uh.
Oh and I hate the people that waste time in there, doing makeup, fixing hair, spraying collapse-your-lungs perfume. And I know good hygeine is good and all, but I HATE HATE HATE when people brush their teeth in the bathroom at work. Gross.
Thankfully, we do have soap. But it's only a fleeting happy moment before the door announces, "I'm leaving the bathroom now!"
lol on the bathroom commentary- i have begun making many, many more bathroom trips since our son has made started taking over my abdominal space. We have even had to stop at a SC rest stop and you know how clean those are!
I am also grossed out by the changing stations hanging on the wall. I am checking out bathroom changing facilities in advance if possible! They have these disposable paper covers you can get at babies r us that i'll surely be using!
Ha! So much I can write on the topic of public restrooms. Like, I REALLY hate the ones that have 5 inch gaps between the door and the wall so the person coming in doesn't have to even guess if you are in there, they can see your whole right side of your body.
Oh and I have a disgusting story about an automatic toilet in O'Charlies. Basically it was spewing pee water all over the place when it started flushing. Me in my shorts got soaked.
And Isaac in the bathroom? If I just absolutely HAD to use one of those changing tables I always had a spare blanket that I used on it and immediately put in on the rack under his carseat to get immediately washed when we got home. I even brought him into the bathroom and changed him in his carseat if it was too disgusting.
One last thing, my recent thoughts about the bathroom have been that now I have a 6 1/2 year old boy that will be going into the ladies room with me until he's 15....Not really, but how old is too old for your son to come with you? I just cringe at the fact of seding him into a mens room...for several reasons: there's the safety thing of course, but also, men's rooms are DISGUSTING....
Guys have it a little easier since we get to stand up most of the time without touching the human waste receptacle (if you're pooping as often as you pee, you should probably see a doctor for either severe dehydration or cholera.)
I do share most of your concerns, though. Please don't talk to me while in the restroom. If I have my penis out and I'm not having sex with the other person, I don't want to talk to them. It's really uncomfortable.
As for the diaper changing tables with babies, if you go out with the kid much like we do, and you don't want to annoy other customers or people in public places by changing the diaper out in the open, you'll get over the distaste for restroom changing table unless you do it on the floor (worse than the foldout table) or on the sink counter (if you're lucky to have enough room and don't care that you're grossing out the other people in the bathroom). They sell disposal and pack-away changing mats that you can lay down on the fold-out table so the kid never comes into touch with the plastic. It's not like you can just wait until you get home. The diapers only hold so much before they start leaking and some functions are worse when they leak than others.
That and your kid will be exposed to more and worse germs just by going to daycare. It makes me mad to see Evan be entirely healthy all summer despite using though changing tables all the time while we were on the road and then return to the continuously runny nose that he keeps while in daycare and this is a lady who keeps four kids in her home and is a former pediatric nurse.
And the pre-foamed soap sucks. You never feel like you got enough contact with the soap.
Is it bad that I don't mind public restrooms all that much? I like to sing while I'm in there to keep everyone entertained. And I'm totally kidding...about the singing.
I normally get irritated with people for stereotyping against the lower class, but...
It's absolutely amazing the difference when I travel to a conference for work and use the restrooms at the luxury hotel/conference centers where the meetings are held. Those restrooms are immaculate and spotless, even at 5:00 after a couple hundred men have trekked in and out all day -- all wealthy businessmen, mind you (except for the handful of journalists like myself). I would eat my lunch off the sink counter in there, if there were any reason to do that.
Ew. Public restrooms are the worst. I never, ever touch the receptacle if I can help it. I have become a master of the hover-pee.
This may sound gross, but I'm going to say it anyway. I saw this thing advertised in one of Mickey's outdoor gear magazines one time - it is a thing that allows women to pee standing up by, uh, diverting the pee away. I think this is a pretty good idea. I mean, sure, I'm touching something that has touched pee, but at least it's my pee.
Aren't you glad I shared?
That's why I like being a guy. I don't have to get quite so intimate with the facilities.
I like foam soap.
I hate the woman in the suite across my my office that treats the bathroom like her own personal office and - I kid you not - conducts business/sales calls while in a stall... next to me.
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