i had to pay to use the bathroom...

so over the weekend i was in london, and i was completely amused by the pay-to-pee restrooms in the station

normally i do not like to use public bathrooms, i will go in like a restaurant or something, but my sons had to go and i had to pay..... it was weird, i felt like i should have gotten a gumball or something out of the turnstile

also I crossed Abbey Road YAY

 

the public loos are like that in switzerland as well. i dont' mind paying a euro or few because the pay to pee loos are generally much cleaner and nicer than a regular public toilet. and you don't have greedy (underpaid, impoverished) attendants trying to wipe your outfit off just to get a few extra coins. it is too sad for me to deal with.

sadly, i just cannot handle the poor/homeless on the street. i can go volunteer at a shelter/soup kitchen, but not on the street. i just can't get into that cycle. there's something strange about it that feels violent somehow.

 

they had hand dryers that actually worked... it was insane, i am used to them just making more of a mess than anything.

we had an experience with a homeless man passed out and pissing his self in the middles of the tube exit on Friday night, it was really sad trying to talk to my children about it... I always think to offer my help but I am not so sure it would have done him any good. =(

 

If you go somewhere where its sit down food, they have to provide toilets by law.
In the British stations people just slide thro the barrier.

I don't see how they can charge you or sue you, for something they should have been providing free by law.

Its almost annoying as "bog trolls" as we call em.
(exclusively African toilet attendants selling chewing gum and drugs and just generally annoying people to try and get money)

 

sadly in most large cities, the homeless aren't looking to be anything different than what they already are. no matter what help you give them, they're always going to choose a handout over a day's work, and a drink over a healthy meal. it's the sad (general) truth.

but yeah. paid bathrooms are amazing. they are so so nice.

lol... usually nicer than even the bathrooms in the fancy hotels and wineries around here. public restrooms just get gross. you pay for it, and all of a sudden it's fucking sparkling and someone is handing you champagne. (well, that's my fantasy at least, haha!)

 

I just did not have time time to go to a "sit down" place and order anything. Normally I will go in and get a coffee and bread just to use the bathroom, I hate to go in a business and ask if I can use it for free since they pay for it....

It was weird, I could have crawled under the barrier but sliding thru woulda been too hard with two kiddos hahahaha

 

Because not everybody pisses at a sit down restaraunt? Because it costs money to operate and maintain a restroom used by thousands of people? Because junkies find public restrooms and hold people up while they sit there and do their drugs? Because one simple thing such as charging a couple of bits offsets almost all of the problems associated with having a public restroom.

And in America they ONLY have to provide a restroom free of charge to PATRONS. Not every ass that walks in off the street to take a shit.

Some diners around here offer tokens at the counter if you have a receipt. They give you two worthless tokens that act just like quarters in the change mechanism on the door.

Don't wanna buy food? Pay .50 to piss. Not a bad compromise. Either way, by no means should anybody be compelled to offer a free pisser to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that strolls through the door.

Edit: In San Francisco they have pay toilets on the streets. When you're done the seal up and fill full of water and cleaner. EVERY use is a clean use. And THAT I am willing to pay for every time.

 

I walked into a restaurant somewhere and the women got all frosty knowing I was going for a pee.
So I said "oh and a table for 3 and a jug of water".
Went for a pee, walked past again, seeing her going thro the hassle laying out the water and glasses.

I just thought " well u shouldn't have been such a bellend in the first place".

 

Don't even know what a bellend is, but I'm guessing it's rude derogatory.... Honestly, you're kind of the ass in that situation. Instead of having the fortitude to just say, "Hey, I'm having a minor emergency, can I please just use it real quick? I'll clean up any mess!", you had to actually lie to somebody and then mentally try to justify it and turn it around on them that you are a liar who wasted their time.....

 

But British stations have sit down eating areas.So they're legally obliged to have toilets attached.
Most of our public toilets seem to have disappeared.

 

I had to pay a quarter the other night to use the restroom at AM/PM..almost all of the restrooms here in socal costs a quarter..I understand why and they generally are cleaner and stocked better..

 

Attached, yes. But if the law is anywhere similar to that of America then they have to have it operational at all times but they ONLY have to OFFER it to PATRONS. Guess I didn't capitalize enough words in the last post, huh?

 

I didn't lie.I was sarcastically answering her, knowing full well she didn't believe me.And that she just looking for an argument she was better off avoiding.

Do I have to beg in a public place?

BTW I would've used the restaurant later in the week if she didn't come over as such a frosty bint.£50 lost to em...

The simple solution would've been for her to have locked the door and been "shut" in the afternoons.
No one moans about McDonalds being "exploited" like this.

 

oh yeah, I was hoping this was about one of those Euro public bathrooms with a boudea.

 

Most Likely Because All Those Nasty "Gay People" Have Been Using

Them To Pickup "Trade"....



Cheers Glen.

 

Can you not differentiate between begging and a simple gesture to politely ask? Perhaps that's a problem for you to delve into?

If she knew she didn't believe you, I doubt she just placed the jug and cups for fun.

You lied about your intent, plain and simple, and then essentially demonize somebody for doing their job.

If I ran a food station I wouldn't let any fuckin' pricks come in and piss all over my seat without ordering a ticket either. They had the balls and brains to start their own business, and stray pissers literally flush their hard work right down the toilet. People who piss but don't stay to eat almost never are as considerate of the facilities. After all, they wont be making a return trip, now will they?

Just saying that you're not entitled to use somebody's shitter just because they are required to have one. Feeling that way makes you a little egotistical, and feeling like somebody else deserved to have their time wasted for simply trying to do their job makes you far worse than that.

 

I can understand the pay to pee thing, I used to work at a sub shop and we would have people come in, not ask at all or order even a drink, then go pee (sometimes shit in the sink).... Now most of these bathroom users who did not pay for anything would go in there make a huge mess and not bother to say please or thank you....

That is why people get so huffy puffy about it.

 

I Must Assume One Of Two Options Here..

(1)..You Entered the Restroom At 11-59am.....And Left At 12-59pm..OR

(2)..AM/PM Is A Business Name In The U.S.??...

I Certainly Hope It Is The Latter......



Cheers Glen.

 

That's the biggest part. Because most of these fuckin' dick heads have a massive sense of self entitlement and think they should just get what they want when they want and have to give nothing back cosmically.

I hope those motherfuckers slip in a dirty bathroom one day, because they're in a rush, and fall face first in a big pile of my feces.

 

Bloody hell I was there.So u doubt wrongly.
I even rolled my eyes in disbelief at her arsiness.

She just wanted to extend the argument and be some kind of "martyr".Probably because the place wasn't getting any customers.

Anyway I was having a piss.Not bringing Elton John and his rentboys in..
Not leaving junkie syringes or wiping shit on the walls, prison style.

Any sensible customer service business welcomes prospective customers.
Its advertising the place, letting em know whats on offer.
She was just a bitter hag.

1 piss vs £50 lost.She was a twat.