What's the deal with this guy in the bathroom? (Public Bathroom Etiquette)

[b1os]



This afternoon I was in the Delancey St. subway station and decided to use their bathroom next to the F platform (I know). I went in and peed at the urinal while some homeless guy was in the stall, probably doing drugs. It smelled like dead livestock inside, but for some reason I felt like I should flush the urinal after peeing to sort of start the process of hygiene, hoping some good karma would bring cleanliness to the rest of the bathroom. Bad, bad idea. Water came oozing out of the urinal (which was already full of piss when I started going). I flooded the entire bathroom floor in about four seconds, and immediately ran out as soon as the guy in the stall started hollering when piss and water invaded his stall. Yikes.

 

[venividivicibj]

stopped him from doing drugs though, so that's good.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Five year anniversary of this glorious threak.

 

[gomestar]

Need to bump this thread.

So I'm at a new company and that of course means new bathrooms. So I just had a lengthy discussion with some of the guys about the bathrooms at said company.

Very poor design. The main flaw is the floor material. Shiny white marble for most of it, then lines of shiny black marble between the stalls. Well that black marble is basically a mirror and it means that you can quite literally stare into the eyes of the person in the stall next to you. As a result, nobody uses the middle stall. Who the **** thought that mirror like material would be the best bet as a material between the stalls???

 

[otc]

Perhaps the original finish was much more matte, but some corporate cleaning service gave it their standard full polish and glossy sealant treatment?

 

[Hayward]

Is this still going on?

 

[gomestar]

it's not like the human race has stopped pooping

 

[Hayward]

I have.

 

[Purplelabel]

So I read up to page 20 something.. (oh god, why?) then started to get distracted by something outside.

Did the Bathroom Bandit get caught?

 

[dazedstate]

So I read up to page 20 something.. (oh god, why?) then started to get distracted by something outside.

Did the Bathroom Bandit get caught?

Don't deny yourself. This thread is SF legend

 

[Purplelabel]

Don't deny yourself. This thread is SF legend

Oh it is. No denial here!

 

[slyguyWT2]

So I read up to page 20 something.. (oh god, why?) then started to get distracted by something outside.

Did the Bathroom Bandit get caught?

Maybe. You must continue forward to find out. The only way out is in.

Patrick, I think you should kill this man.

 

[Joffrey]

So just moments ago I'm using a public mens room stall in my office building, and what happens? Someone walks in to the restroom and presumably walks toward one of the urinals (in front of my stall). Well before he does so, he knocks on my stall door and asks "hey dude are you okay?" He had no reason to ask this as I was silent, and because he had just walked in couldn't have observed or heard anything strange. I stay silent. He asks again, "you okay, dude?". Finally I say, "excuse me?" and he finally explains he's an "EMT" and had once helped a guy having a heart attack in a bathroom stall. He adds that since that episode he always checks on people in bathroom stalls. After his explanation and my silence, he proceeds to do his business (presumably), washes his hands (presumably), and exits.

 

[razl]

...he finally explains he's an "EMT" and had once helped a guy having a heart attack in a bathroom stall. He adds that since that episode he always checks on people in bathroom stalls.

EMT or not, I'm surprised someone hasn't forcibly corrected his neurotic behavior.

 

[Forum Troll]

My employer had two separate bathrooms for men and women. Only two women work in the wing of the building I work in, and around 40 men work there. The state law required the company to make the bathrooms accessible to all genders. Our director told the two women he encouraged the men in the wing to avoid using the bathroom that had been previously the women's room, unless it was a real emergency like diarrhea or vomiting. Deer in headlights looks from the ladies.