I'd be tempted to print up that "Squatters only" on a piece of paper and tape it to the door. Especially if your building doesn't really received customers! (wear gloves-no prints!) Either that, or some really pointed poetry like: "It does no good to stand on the toilet seat, because ____________(insert your state here) crabs can jump 10 feet."
Yeah-that might be a bit over the top....darn - be fun though!
Ugh. This pisses me off to no end! It's a cycle of stupid. They won't sit on the seat because OMG THE SEAT IS GERMY. It wouldn't FUCKING BE germy if you idiots would just sit on the goddamn thing instead of hovering above it spraying piss everywhere.
If this is a big problem, it might pay to start checking the seats before sitting down. Either choose a new stall or wipe & use the spray you brought up.
Not saying you're wrong for having an issue with the seat sprayers, but it is your own fault if you sit in it if you don't look where you're sitting.
I wouldn't pin all the blame on the OP. Yes, it's indeed a good idea to check before sitting down because I've seen substances far germier than urine (which, in the absence of an infection, is pretty sterile) on it. But in turn, the person who last used it should have taken the courtesy to wipe it off. I myself use the seat cover I just used, to wipe off the toilet seat before flushing.
To address the squatting vs. sitting thing that the OP brought up, I'm wondering if that might not simply be a matter of cultural differences. The Western world, as I understand it, is different from many other countries in the world, which use squat toilets instead of the ones we're used to. And that's not the only difference in terms of bathrooms. I remember back in high school Spanish class, we had a guest from Mexico, and the next day, our Spanish teacher said that he caught the guy just about to use the large trough-like sink as a urinal (since that's apparently how they were designed in Mexico).
I wasn't aware that the OP was being somehow forced to sit without checking the condition of the toilet first. No matter what, it is up to you to check before you sit. If you sit in something unsavory after checking, fair enough, get irate about it, but you can't get pissed about the stuff you sit in if you didn't even check first.
But what if you have a potty emergency and just barely make it in time? Surely the last thing you'll be thinking to do at the moment is to check the seat. And I'm sure that there are ways to prevent such emergencies, such as by not drinking a gallon of water before going to work, but others, like stomach flu or UTIs, come without warning and aren't easy to prevent. Also, it's not something that one tends to think about at the forefront of their mind until it's too late.
What really bothers me is how you're so eager to point fingers at the OP and say it's "their fault" instead of just offering suggestions on how they can do their part to reduce the chances of this happening and leave it at that. It almost makes me think that you're just looking to pick an argument with someone without good reason. That may not be the case, but asserting that it's someone's "fault" comes off to me that way.
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Either that, or some really pointed poetry like:
"It does no good to stand on the toilet seat, because ____________(insert your state here) crabs can jump 10 feet."
Yeah-that might be a bit over the top....darn - be fun though!
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Not saying you're wrong for having an issue with the seat sprayers, but it is your own fault if you sit in it if you don't look where you're sitting.
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To address the squatting vs. sitting thing that the OP brought up, I'm wondering if that might not simply be a matter of cultural differences. The Western world, as I understand it, is different from many other countries in the world, which use squat toilets instead of the ones we're used to. And that's not the only difference in terms of bathrooms. I remember back in high school Spanish class, we had a guest from Mexico, and the next day, our Spanish teacher said that he caught the guy just about to use the large trough-like sink as a urinal (since that's apparently how they were designed in Mexico).
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What really bothers me is how you're so eager to point fingers at the OP and say it's "their fault" instead of just offering suggestions on how they can do their part to reduce the chances of this happening and leave it at that. It almost makes me think that you're just looking to pick an argument with someone without good reason. That may not be the case, but asserting that it's someone's "fault" comes off to me that way.
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