One of the things that drives me crazy when I travel anywhere is public restroom doors. I mean, seriously, they either lack the purse hook, or the lock is broken, or for some bizarre reason, the door is mismatched to where the latch doesn't join up or it hangs weirdly to where it doesn't quite shut, leaving you sort of....exposed. I hate toilets that don't quite flush right or have weak water pressure or have S-L-O-W-L-Y filling tanks so if you need to flush again, you have to stand there and wait forever for it to fill. I hate those automatic flush mechanisms if they fail to work properly, leaving you wondering as you leave the stall with the toilet as yet unflushed wondering what to do. And it drives me nuts how many of those toilet paper dispensers are so low down on the wall that you just about have to lean completely over to get any paper, and if you are sitting on a toilet with an automatic flusher, it flushes because it senses that you've stood up and left. I also hate it when the roll is placed so it's under and not over. And I totally hate single ply toilet paper because it's so wasteful because you have to use that much more of it. I hate toilet paper that feels like using sandpaper. Why can't everyone just use Charmin like I do?I know, I know, a lot of this probably sounds a little weird, but these are just complaints I have about public restrooms. I don't travel now as much as I used to, but these are gripes collected from years of travel through gas station, restaurant and turnpike restroom stops. I just don't see what is so difficult about maintaining a decent public restroom. It's the door on the stall thing that puzzles me the most. Why they are mismatched with the door frame or have broken locks or are missing purse hooks or any number of problems is beyond me. I mean, how hard can it be to hang a public restroom stall door correctly? Who does these jobs, anyhow? It just makes no sense to me whatsoever. I mean, given how many people travel by road, or bus, or airplane or what-have-you, you'd think that public restrooms wouldn't be such a problem, but no matter where I go, I experience something that just gets on my last nerve. But still, I persist, and I use restrooms wherever I can find them while traveling. Thank you for your consideration. I knew you'd understand how I feel.
3 comments:
Those self flushing toilets are hell when you're trying to toilet train a child, lemme tell ya. They confirm every fear a small tot has of the toilet being alive and wanting to swallow you whole. First encountered them on the highway stops in Italy. Still hate 'em.
It's not like the builders hang the doors wrong. They get out of alignment when people hang on them (yes, they do that) or slam them. Sometimes the floor settles.
Same deal with the hooks; they break off when people grab them (as in when they lose their balance), or when they slam the door open and it smashes against the wall.
The folks who clean the restrooms don't fix these things because it isn't their responsibility. They usually don't even bother reporting them because they know they won't get fixed anyway, and they'll just get yelled at for making trouble.
The management doesn't want to hear about the problems and won't fix them. That costs money. You want cheap prices and they want big profits. So, no repairs unless the toilet is overflowing.
If you want nice restrooms, you'll have to go to places where the prices are high enough to support them. Thirty bucks for dinner, anyone?
PS - the reason they don't use "Charmin" and similar brands is -
1. They're much more expensive to buy. They'd have to charge you more for at that place (restaurant or whatever), and then you'd be griping about that.
2. The rolls are short and have to be changed frequently. Over the last 50 years the rolls have shrunk from 650 sheets to 100 sheets! Changing them that often takes expensive labor. Again, do you want to pay for it?
3. Charmin and similar products are environmentally lousy. Tush-soft TP requires wood pulp made from standing trees. Charmin contains ZERO recycled paper. The chlorine used to bleach it also has bad environmental effects.
Read this
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Get your butt over to Europe sometime. You'll be wiping it with recycled paper. We Americans are just about the only first-world people who still use old growth forests for our s**t.
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