Manners, common decency, conscious, what ever you want to call it. Where has it gone? Why is it that when people go into public all human nature goes out the window?
I have always been one to think the best of people. Half glass full, people are generally good. But a few incidents in the past weeks really has me wondering and scratching my head.
I took my boys to a beach party two weekends ago. I have two 3 year olds and a 4 year old. They all must use the restroom facilities at least a dozen times when ever we go out. The beach was no exception. At first, I was just proud that they were not peeing in the ocean.
Our first trip to the bathroom was early in the day. I was actually pleased at the halfway decent facilities. Mostly clean, working toilets. Our second trip was not so pleasant.
I took BoBo into pee and we had to search the entire bathroom for a “clean” toilet. They were all overflowing with toilet paper and shit. There was paper all over the floor along with God knows what else. I was disgusted and really mad. There were no other bathrooms, this was it. And I wasn’t going to go encourage him to pee in the sea.
Really? Why the hell was the bathroom like this? WHY do women think it’s okay to shit all over the place and just leave it there?? Where are your manners? What society are you living in? It’s certainly can’t be today’s “civilized” society…can it?
Then just yesterday I had to make a quick stop in our local Albertson’s grocery store. Of course my 4 year old had to pee. He came in with me. (Remember, they have to use every toilet within a 200 meter range). The first stall he went into was filled with a bloody fucking tampon!!!
COME ON!?
People. Really? You couldn’t manage the 2.5 seconds it would have taken to flush that nastiness down the sewer? Instead I am in the bathroom with my very observant 4 year old answering questions about “what is that?” “why is there blood in the toilet?”
Nice.
I came up with an “OMGosh, they must have been really hurt and in their hurry forgot to flush!”
*eyeroll*
I should not have to come up with excuses for your nastiness. I should not have to come up with explanations in order to shelter my kids from other peoples horrible lack of manners and hygiene. I don’t want my boys seeing this and thinking it’s ok. And these were women’s restrooms. Women. The gentler sex. Yeah right.
Nasty.
This is really weird for me to say but, it looks like the guys bathrooms are A LOT cleaner then the womans.
OMG u r too funny! I just started reading ur blog and you make me laugh every time! I’m currently TRYING to potty train my daughter and sometimes I make her wear pull-ups when we go out for the same reason you wrote about – DIRTY NASTY PUBLIC RESTROOMS! I’d rather her pee in her pull-ups than take her into a public restroom any day! Thanks for giving this stressed out mom a laugh at the end of a hard day.
I work at a busy Starbucks and have had the misfortune of having to clean the bathrooms. It makes me really mad because seriously how hard is it to go to the bathroom and pee IN the toilet first of all, and secondly, actually flush? I mean people do it at home right? They just don’t care. I think you would have to purposely try to be that disgusting. I hate it!
Oh i couldnt agree more. Im convinced thats why there is always a line at womens bathrooms. The “good” women must be searching for a clean stall! At work HR actually had to hang up signs with pictures to show what a clean bathroom looks like and it encourages us to report it to maintence or our manager if it is ever dirty – which is all the time. Mr. RotoRooter must come at least every other month and actually told us it was the womens bathroom each time. Apparantly we have some women who try to flush pads down the toilet, paper towles and all kinds of things. We now have no paper towels in the bathroom(as punishment) and the hand dryer sucks. We also have signs reminding us that feminine products are not to be flushed and in fact you should always flush twice regardless to make sure everything went down before you step out of the stall! This is all stuff I learned from my mom at a very young age. Where do these inconsiderate people come from???
ROFLMAO! I can’t stand going to the restroom in public for the exact same reasons! My son is also 4, and HAS to pee at every stop on Errand Day. One time, it was unavoidable, no way for him to hold it anymore, but our town’s branch of the store we were in is notorious for filthy bathrooms (*cough*walmart*cough*). We had been out most of the day, in neighboring towns as well as our own, so I broke my public-bathroom “ew factor”, and took off running for the potties. When we reached the bathroom, I noticed how spectacularly clean it was! It smelled nice, the floors weren’t tacky, all the water was still in the toilets, which ONLY had water in them! My son finished his business, and we left the bathroom…bumping into a very nice (albeit slightly confused) gentleman. It was only then that I realized the neighboring town’s Walmart is IDENTICAL to ours in every way…except for the restrooms, which are reversed. Men may be pigs at home, but at least in public they hit the bowl!
I admit, I did kind of wonder about the urinal in the “ladies” room (“Well how nice for a big corporation to realize women bring their little boys in here”, etc). Oops!
Unfortunately, people are disgusting pigs when using a public restroom. I work iwth the public and have had people actually crap on the floor and leave it. No wonder more and more people are not offering a public restroom.
I have a friend that began a website for pictures of nasty women’s restrooms because she believes that women’s bathrooms are worse then men’s and I’d have to agree. We leave some pretty disgusting messes in those potties. I’ve had to hold my son up over the toilet or let him pee in the bushes because I’m so afraid of the germs lying on the toilet. Gross!