Flush with frustration

Love this thread... just love it. All I can say is so far this year I've been to Haiti, Thailand, and all over China. OMG... any toilet in HNL would look like a great place to go after that. Best toilet ever was in Tokyo, it was cold as icicles outside and not much warmer inside but the seat was heated... now that my friends was an enjoyable bathroom experience. Been meaning to get one of those at home, maybe this winter.

Until recently I always went into the second stall of a bathroom. I have no idea why; maybe it was because I thought the first stall had to be dirtier thanks to everyone else using it. Ha!

hahahaha ... remember being told by a clerk in Gallerie in Paris that the bathrooms were unisex. Didn't believe it, so when the matter became a little more urgent I asked another clerk and she said, "yes, yes ..." and led me to one and gave me a gentle push in.' After I came out I got dirty looks from women. When I was first in Japan in Fukuoaka (68-9) many restrooms were unisex and no one -- male or female -- seemed to care. Advantage to women though cuz there were stalls. Not so with urinals. As to pet peeves, yeah you ignorant ____s who don't flush and almost as bad you guys who pass by the sinks after w/o washing your hands ... I wash, but half the males I see in restrooms don't.

haha I just got back from Italy and Tunisia... I should have @Wongie808 comment on this. :) LOL

Chicago O'Hare's airport has a novel, if not slighly expensive solution. The seats are covered with a plastic wrap that rotates with every flush. I'm not sure how long the plastic lasts or when the attendant need to change the wraps. Yeah, I flushed it more than once just to see how the plastic wrap is ejected at one end and retracted at the other.

It's not a problem here in Hawai`i but on the mainland when doing road trips, I understand that because of the budget crunch in certain States and locales, some Rest Stops are closed until further notice. That means either a pit stop at a store along the way or pulling into some hotel or such to use the facilities.

In Hawai`i were spoiled by great weather. I've had friends chatting it up about having to use the Rest Stop in freezing weather with no heat. Quite funny conversation actually only because I wasn't there.

at Ala Moana Center, I like the fairly new bathrooms up at the Ho'okipa Terrace. They're nice. Mainly built for Mai Tai crowd. But the downstairs bathrooms by the main stage, the food court, and the ones by Sears and Banana Republic are horrid, foul chambers of horrors. Macy's and Sear men's restrooms are unpleasant. Speaking of chamber of horrors, Aloha Stadium. UH games. I know lots of girls use the guy's filthy restrooms cause the ladies' line is so long. I don't know how those girls can stand it. And don't get me started on port-a-potties chemical toilets. I refuse to go in them. I went camping once in Kahuku area from Friday to Monday, and the only things available were those port-a-potties. I willed myself for 4 days not to use the bathroom. Monday afternoon, I drove to Turtle Bay resort and used their immaculate facilities.

Cat, the picture of the red French toilet; is that the one in the department store you have to pay a Euro or so to use? Well, if this is representative of the conditions of the restroom, money well spent.

CAT,
Like Turk said, this topic is a garan comment grabber! Do not use Kleenex for TP! All the flushing in the world will not break it up...next thing you know you will have a back up toilet. You know about my preference for dispensing of TP from the front vice the back.

why would anyone use a public bathroom in Ala Moana Center? use the bathrooms at Macy's, Sear's or, (the gold standard) Nieman Marcus.

I read once that the first bathroom stall (in a bunch of stalls, like at the movies) is most often passed by and is therefore often cleaner than others. Just FYI!

Saw a sign posted recently that read "Hunters, aim carefully, we like this bathroom floor to stay clean."

biggest peeve is when able-bodied ppl use the handicapped stall, esp to change clothes. i gave plenty stink eye to these ppl when my mom was in a wheelchair, patiently waiting w/ no other choice.

I guess as Men we are slightly lucky; however, this also presents itself as a curse as well. I think some fellas think just because it's the men's room they can just temporarily common sense, cleanliness and courtesy out the window. Even little dogs know how to properly pee on their freaking paper you lazy dipshits. Urinals are for the most part not that big a deal as long as people flush 'em. If you are a germ freak like me take a paper towel with you to the stand up and use it to flush after no ooogies. Just Flush It.

Now for the one-seaters in most men's rooms they are basically unacceptable for normal human use because dudes use them for urinal substitutes and never seem to be able to lift the damn seats. Use the same towel trick or do the one legged kick up trick whatever just stop blessing the seattops with you live stream. It is just rude and lazy.

Don't use the public toilets at Kewalos before 7:00am or before they clean them or you will loose your breakfast. Anyway bring your own tp. It could come down to a uncomfortable surf session or relief.

When I used to work in an old building repurposed into an office building in Chinatown in the '90s, I was using the toilet stall in our bathroom. The only other stall was the open urinal stall. So, as I was doing my "bidness" when I noticed under the stall wall that the other stall user's feet were BACKWARDS for someone using the urinal... "Rut roh, Astro!" Yup... some vagrant off the street had come in and took a dump in the urinal!!!

Have you ever read Anthony Bordain's "Kitchen Confidential?" He made a point in there that has always stuck with me:

*to paraphrase*
The cleanliness of any restroom in a restaurant is a direct reflection of the cleanliness of its kitchen and food preparation. YIKES!!!

Grossology Monday :-) Hey Flush the dang thing when you done. Who wants to look or smell that stuff. Worse when they plug it up by using too much paper. Yep hate it when no paper in stall, no doors, wet floor etc etc. Many public restrooms are just too darn stink. I wish they would hire someone to service each restroom and disinfect

Walking into a public bathroom (specifically one at the beach and some ding ding stole the big roll of toilet paper. That's why I now keep a six pack in my car at all times.

ps. stand up peeing is god's consolation prize for men, to make up for all the other debilitating afflictions he saddled us with; like ....well, like being men.

a check of the archives shows that this is the second time you have posted a pic and ruminations about public toilets. since you seem to be a connoisseur, what was your take on the French and English WCs?

One of the worse things that can happen - no toilet paper, toilet not flushed, or floor is wet. UGH