To flush or not to flush? That is the question. [Gross]

[solidmetalgear19]

Okay, I'm getting sick and tired of this.

We all have to eventually keep tabs on the 8 bathrooms at work. But what is the deal with people not flushing after they are done?

Is it that hard to push the little lever and watch your excrement/feces go to the sewers?

It is disgusting for me to have to walk into the restrooms every 30 minutes and have a nice pool of urine or feces stare back at me from withing multiple stalls.

I am not anyone's mother. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you are in your 30's and do not know how to flush a toilet, you suck at life.

Would it be wrong for me to catch someone coming out of a stall, having not flushed and say:

"So, uh, you gonna flush that or what?"

Tell me if I'd be the sucky one in this instance. I don't want to get reamed in case this situation comes up.

[myswtghst]

I don't think that's sucky at all. Hopefully it would embarrass them into flushing more often.

And by the by, I feel your annoyance. I tend to flush toilets all the time at work for people who can't seem to grasp the concept, which I'll never understand.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Oh, man I've never had the guts to call someone out on it but more than once I have gone into a stall after some lady (usually older women) and the seat is covered pee. I mean, really, how the hell do you pee all over the seat and not notice it. Or think, Hey, I don't have to clean that up! Especially knowing there is a line for the bathroom and the next person is going to know who it was! Cuz I refuse to believe you used a toilet that was already covered in pee. So gross. It's bad enough when I am the employee and at least I am getting paid (something) to maintain the cleanliness level of the bathrooms, but when I am just a customer like you? Why the hell should I have to clean the seat just to go to the bathroom?

One grocery store near me actually has seat covers, and seat cleaner/disinfectant...a little dispenser in the stall with drawings showing you how to take a bit of TP and clean the seat. Oddly enough, the TP dispensers have no covers on them. I don't know if they're just missing or if that's intentional. Then they have soap dispensers between every sink, and pump bottles of (their store brand) soap...and hand sanitizer dispensers. With all that you'd think the bathroom would be cleaner than it always seems to be. It looks grimy in that "waited too long to clean it and now it's never coming out" sort of way.

[the_std]

What's even more mind-boggling is the women who get pee all over the seats! Unless they're hoverers, but I'm pretty sure the majority of the population does it the, ahem, normal way. Maybe they're just magic?

[PuckishOne]

I think it was BarefootGirl who had an excellent response to this when her husband left without flushing:

"So, did you leave this bowl of warm piss here for a reason?" (apologies for not getting it exactly right and not having a cool accent)

[BookstoreEscapee]

And by the by, I feel your annoyance. I tend to flush toilets all the time at work for people who can't seem to grasp the concept, which I'll never understand.

Here's something I don't get: We have auto-flush toilets at work. I routinely hear people go into the stall, they haven't done anything yet, maybe they wiped off the seat, and I hear it flush. Then I hear them pee, and then I hear it flush, but they're not done yet. I sometimes hear the damn thing flush 3 or 4 times before they are done. This is not a case of it flushing on its own with every little move - they are not that sensitive. It is very rare that it flushes on me when I'm not ready for it. And I can hear the click as they press the button. The other girl in my office has noticed this habit also. It is clearly more than one person that does this. Most of the employees where I work are Hispanic (Mexican or Central American, I believe). Is there some kind of cultural thing going on here? Cuz I don't get it. I think it's kinda gross to have the toilet flush when you're still sitting on it, but they are obviously doing it on purpose.

[myswtghst]

What's even more mind-boggling is the women who get pee all over the seats! Unless they're hoverers, but I'm pretty sure the majority of the population does it the, ahem, normal way. Maybe they're just magic?

I think it is mostly due to people who hover. It sucks, because due to the decline in bathroom hygeine, people are afraid to sit on the seat, touch the flush handle and touch the door handle, but this just leads to people hovering and peeing on the seats, or flushing with their feet, which transfers all the germs from the floor onto the flush handle.

This is especially stupid because so many places provide seat covers, seat cleaner, etc, and people would rather make the bathroom grosser for everyone else than clean it up for themself. I also will never understand how someone can walk out of a stall after they've peed all over the seat without wiping it up. Ew.

[draco664]

I also will never understand how someone can walk out of a stall after they've peed all over the seat without wiping it up. Ew.

Can I direct your attention to the name of the site to which you are posting?

Draco

[blas]

My mother used to do it all the time at home. I suppose back in her day it costed too much money to flush the toilet after every use?

I'd have to use the bathroom minutes after her, or I'd just walk into the bathroom in the morning and the loo was full of pee. Mom's excuse was "I forgot" or "I was too busy getting ready"

I wanted to scream "We don't have an "If it's yellow let it mellow" policy around here. Flush the god damned toilet!"

[Imogene]

I routinely hear people go into the stall, they haven't done anything yet, maybe they wiped off the seat, and I hear it flush.

I'm cursed, apparently, because anytime I get near an auto-flush toilet, it'll flush five or six times during the course of my using it.

[draggar]

At least it's in the toilet and not on the floor

[the_std]

Blas, I hear you loud 'n clear. My dad does the same thing, because he grew up on a farm with a septic tank that had to emptied by truck, so they had that "mellow yellow" policy. This, of course, annoys the hell out of me and makes me a bit embarrassed to have friends to the house. My brother has started to follow my dad's example too, which is even worse cause he has no reason for it other than laziness.

Funny story about those automatic flushers, though. I had a friend visit me from a part of another country where automatic stuff (faucets, toilets, doors, etcetera) aren't terribly widespread, and we were shopping in a mall here when we made a stop to the bathroom. While she was in the stall, I heard the toilet flush no less than a dozen times in the span of two minutes. Yes. I did count. She came out afterwards, looking like this little dude:

I said, "I take it you enjoyed yourself in there?"

She replied, "You Canadians and your pee-magic! TEACH ME!"

[Pagan]

Most of the employees where I work are Hispanic (Mexican or Central American, I believe). Is there some kind of cultural thing going on here?

How long have your co-workers been in the country? I know when I went down through Mexico on spring break in '90 (Has it really been 17 yrs? Sheesh, I'm getting old.), most places we couldn't flush any TP because the sewer and plumbing systems were so bad and out-of-date that they couldn't handle anything other than....ummm....you know.

or flushing with their feet, which transfers all the germs from the floor onto the flush handle.

I'm guilty of doing this, but it has nothing to do with germs. I've encountered one too many toilets that "spit". There was one in particular that I remember at the rest stop in Texas Canyon. Man, that thing had a range!

[RammsteinGirl]

Especially knowing there is a line for the bathroom and the next person is going to know who it was!

LOL.. not a customer story, but I was at school and there was a line for the ladies' bathroom. Well, I go in a stall after a girl comes out of it, yapping on her cell phone, and I look down into the toilet and what do I see? A huge turd that she neglected to flush. I guess she was SO busy flapping her gums on her cell phone she couldn't be bothered to flush. You'd think someone would be embarrassed to not flush, especially when you know the next person to use the toilet knows it was YOU who left the log.

Also, isn't it gross when you go into a bathroom stall, look down into the toilet and realize someone's left a turd.. but there's no toilet paper in there with it - meaning they didn't wipe. BONUS POINTS if it's your employee bathroom at work (meaning it HAS to be one of your co-irkers), or your bathroom at home.

Okay, I've gotta stop, I'm making my own stomach churn here!

[myswtghst]

I'm cursed, apparently, because anytime I get near an auto-flush toilet, it'll flush five or six times during the course of my using it.

You're not the only one. I have this problem anywhere with automatic toilets. As a matter of fact, I tend to avoid certain bathrooms at work because they have the auto-flush.

What's really odd, though, is that the bathrooms with auto-flush have manual sinks, but the bathrooms with manual flush have auto sinks. Weird.