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Bathroom pet peeves.
Topic Started: Sep 21 2007, 11:51 AM (1,443 Views)
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Sep 23 2007, 08:52 PM
Two words for y'all: squat toilets. :innocent:

You win. :spew:
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Oh God, I experenced those on my first trip to Italy. Think, sink in the floor + need to pee + 5 inch heels=damn!

My dad had told me about them ahead of time, but he is known for pulling jokes on people, so I honestly didn't believe him. It was at a fancy resturant that our cousins took us to, and I totally wasn't expecting it AT ALL. Yikes.
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I trail ride a lot (and as I age I can't hold it as long as I used to be able) - so I am used to peeing in the great out of doors. I have perfected the art of reins in one hand, britches down w/ the other...

What peeves me are people the do the same but feel the need to wipe and deposit their wipe on the ground. :brickwall: Ziploc baggie!!!! Take out the dry one, wipe, replace into your baggie. :mallet:

Where I work we have the Phantom Flusher - she flushes her shorts, undies, jeans, etc. on various days. Clogs up the whole system. Why would you need to flush your panties on Weds., your jeans a few weeks later, socks the 1st Monday after a holiday w/e, shorts on the hottest day of the year.... :huh:

I often wonder how these non-flushers, no curtesy sprayers, and those that do not wash their hands (eeeewww) were raised.
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Wait wait... I can top that all...

Used to be a manager at the GAP. We had a fancy remodel and they added public restrooms (worst idea ever). You've never SEEN messes like people leave in a public restroom like that! And every night, I had assign some poor sales associate to clean it up. I usually did it myself to spare them.

But the best was the lady (yes, an adult WOMAN) who...

TOOK A CRAP IN A FITTING ROOM ON THE BENCH!

I guess going 2 feet over to the BATHROOM with the TOILET was too difficult. So she took a crap in the fitting room. We had to shut down the fitting rooms and call a professional company to come remediate/clean it. Disgusting.

In other news... I am SUPER bathroom phobic. The 2 things I cannot stand are (1) dirty public restrooms [I will literally hold it, it makes me want to vomit and I am unable to pee] and (2) hair (especially wet hair). I can handle a bit of mess in someone's house (though I dislike it) but I cannot and willnot go in a messy public restroom. Just typing that made me want to vomit a little. It's a really irrational kind of crazy phobia.
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after reading veronica's post, i will never be able to look at a fitting room the same. Oh.My.God.
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At Banana Republic I was constantly having to break up people having sex in the fitting rooms. Sometimes with employees! :lol: I'll take that over the crap anyday. People at the GAP were just nutty sometimes. You'd think BabyGAP would be the worst but generally parents were respectful and cleaned up in the bathroom.
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vxf111
Sep 24 2007, 08:53 AM
At Banana Republic I was constantly having to break up people having sex in the fitting rooms.

I worked at Red Lobster for years and there was sex in the br - both mens & ladies, sex on the line, sex on the salad bar, sex in the freezer, sex on the floor, sex in the dish wash area.... :jaw:

It was like Grey's Anatomy w/o the blood and gore scenes. :spew:
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vxf111
Sep 24 2007, 05:12 AM
But the best was the lady (yes, an adult WOMAN) who...

TOOK A CRAP IN A FITTING ROOM ON THE BENCH!


I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.....
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vxf111
Sep 24 2007, 08:12 AM
Wait wait... I can top that all...

Used to be a manager at the GAP. We had a fancy remodel and they added public restrooms (worst idea ever). You've never SEEN messes like people leave in a public restroom like that! And every night, I had assign some poor sales associate to clean it up. I usually did it myself to spare them.

But the best was the lady (yes, an adult WOMAN) who...

TOOK A CRAP IN A FITTING ROOM ON THE BENCH!

I guess going 2 feet over to the BATHROOM with the TOILET was too difficult. So she took a crap in the fitting room. We had to shut down the fitting rooms and call a professional company to come remediate/clean it. Disgusting.

In other news... I am SUPER bathroom phobic. The 2 things I cannot stand are (1) dirty public restrooms [I will literally hold it, it makes me want to vomit and I am unable to pee] and (2) hair (especially wet hair). I can handle a bit of mess in someone's house (though I dislike it) but I cannot and willnot go in a messy public restroom. Just typing that made me want to vomit a little. It's a really irrational kind of crazy phobia.

Ok reading that while sitting at my workstation is very hard to keep a straight face.

OMG. How disgusting. That tops the portapotty explosion.

What are people thinking? I think people like that should be made to clean the worst public bathrooms as punishment.

That's just sick. My horse is cleaner than some people.

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Sep 24 2007, 10:18 AM
vxf111
Sep 24 2007, 08:12 AM
Wait wait... I can top that all...

Used to be a manager at the GAP. We had a fancy remodel and they added public restrooms (worst idea ever). You've never SEEN messes like people leave in a public restroom like that! And every night, I had assign some poor sales associate to clean it up. I usually did it myself to spare them.

But the best was the lady (yes, an adult WOMAN) who...

TOOK A CRAP IN A FITTING ROOM ON THE BENCH!

I guess going 2 feet over to the BATHROOM with the TOILET was too difficult. So she took a crap in the fitting room. We had to shut down the fitting rooms and call a professional company to come remediate/clean it. Disgusting.

In other news... I am SUPER bathroom phobic. The 2 things I cannot stand are (1) dirty public restrooms [I will literally hold it, it makes me want to vomit and I am unable to pee] and (2) hair (especially wet hair). I can handle a bit of mess in someone's house (though I dislike it) but I cannot and willnot go in a messy public restroom. Just typing that made me want to vomit a little. It's a really irrational kind of crazy phobia.

Ok reading that while sitting at my workstation is very hard to keep a straight face.

OMG. How disgusting. That tops the portapotty explosion.

What are people thinking? I think people like that should be made to clean the worst public bathrooms as punishment.

That's just sick. My horse is cleaner than some people.

:psycho: I actually loved my retail jobs. Sometimes you just have to laugh. You think people can't surprise you anymore... they always do! I have a whole catalog of stores to tell from my retail days. One of the best ones (also bathroom related), which I'll come back and post when I am not so swamped is entitled "It doesn't take a genius to work at Wendy's, nor is it a hiring requirement." Another plumbing related one I call "A river runs through it." :)
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Sep 23 2007, 10:52 PM
Two words for y'all: squat toilets.    :innocent:

I think we had these in Peru. They have two little places for your feet and a hole, that's it. Haha. Actually they are cleaner, you don't touch anything.

They are a little scary at first though.

I can't get over the sex and crap in the fitting rooms. I don't know which is worse, spooch or crap. Probably crap.

That is so f-ing sick.

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“It doesn't take a genius to work at Wendy's, nor is it a hiring requirement”

This is the short version. I worked at the GAP in one particular mall. At the time, our store was directly underneath the food court, specifically Wendy’s. One day I was clocking in when with no warning the air conditioning unit fell through the drop ceiling, and water and waste began to drip down along with broken pieces of ceiling.

I immediately went upstairs and asked to speak with the manager at Wendy’s...

Me: Is everything okay up here?
Wendy’s Manager: Yeah, everything is fine.
Me: Because my air conditioner just fell out of the ceiling and there a lot of sh*t raining down in my backroom.
Wendy’s Manager: Oh.... ReAlLy?!?
Me: Yeah, do you know anything about that?
Wendy’s Manager: Well, someone flushed the toilet with too much toilet paper and it clogged it up.
Me: Uh huh... go on...
Wendy’s Manager: And I didn’t know what to do. But I didn’t want people going in there and making it worse. I mean, it was overflowing water all over the floor.
Me: Okay... so you obviously had to handle that problematic situation.
Wendy’s Manager: Right. So I got the key and locked the door so no one could go in the bathroom.
Me: YOU DIDN’T CALL MALL MAINTENANCE?! YOU JUST LOCKED THE DOOR, WHEN DID THIS START HAPPENING.
Wendy’s Manager: About 3 days ago.


“A river runs through it”


It’s a slow Tuesday at GAPKids. It’s just me and a sales associate on staff, and she is on her 15 minute break. So I am standing at the front of the store folding clothes on the front table. When I feel a little drop of water on my head. I think to myself “that’s odd, we’re on the basement level and it’s not raining.” One little drop falls on the table where I am folding, and before I can think another thought...

WOOSH... with no warning there are gallons of water pouring down through the ceiling. Just pouring and pouring and pouring with no end. Literally gushing with force. I start scooping up clothes and trying to get them out of the way but the water just comes and comes and comes. The associates at GAP (right across the hall and we have glass doors so we can see into each other’s stores) are completely dumbstruck and staring as I wade through a torrential downpour trying to move clothes out of the way.

Then, as suddenly as it started, it’s over. A minute or so later, a construction worker comes rushing in to tell me that they accidentally hit a water pipe while putting in the “Build a Bear” upstairs.

Mall maintenance comes by a few minutes later with 2 mops. By this time, there is at least 2 feet of water throughout the entire front of the store. And it’s just not safe. So I send the associate home, close and lock the doors, and start futilely mopping the water that is halfway up to my knees. Clothes are floating. The lights are off.... am standing in TWO FEET OF DIRTY WATER, in a dark store, with a mop...

And then I hear a knock on the glass door, look up and it’s some lady with a GAPKids bag and she says “can I come in? I won’t buy anything—I just want to make a return.”
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As someone who spent her college years (and then some) working retail, I can SO relate!! Those stories sure bring back the memories.....
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I really, really, really do not understand people and poop. Why would you take a dump anywhere other than the toilet? And why wouldn't you flush? And why would you actually do something with it (ie, smear it all over the walls or something like that)?

Mr. Fishy was recently on a business trip in Bangalore and people take shits on the sidewalk there. Just stop, squat, and crap. And keep walking. I think there is nothing grosser than human feces!!!! Ok, maybe human vomit is almost as disgusting.

As to the not hand-washing thing...some of us carry hand sanitizer with us and use it after leaving the restroom. Because once you've washed your hands and then touch the door to get out of the bathroom, your hands are all dirty again!

I have this lavender linen spray that I used to keep in my bedroom before Mr. Fishy and I were married. I would just spritz it in the room if it got stuffy or too doggy-smelling. When we moved in together, Mr. Fishy turned it into the post-poop bathroom spray. Now I can't stand the stuff!

I get mildly annoyed at the tooth-brushing-spittle-dots that get on the mirror. If it weren't for those, I wouldn't have to clean it!!!

One reason I like to keep my hair so short is that I can't stand hair all over the bathroom - in the shower, in the sink, on the floor, etc...it is pretty on my head, but not once it is off my scalp!

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But the best was the lady (yes, an adult WOMAN) who...

TOOK A CRAP IN A FITTING ROOM ON THE BENCH!


My sister's best friend managed the Victoria's Secret in our local "upscale" mall & this happened to them not once but on TWO separate occasions. :jaw:

Yeah------we are all Frederick's girls now.
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