There are many, many times in my life that I have been grateful to be a girl. The fact that I never had to pay for dinner on a date, that I rarely have to buy my own liquor at a bar and that I can ask someone to open a jar for me without being teased are all plusses in my book. However, today I think that the best thing about being a girl is using the women's public restroom.
There's a reason women wait in line for 20 minutes to use their own restrooms. It's so we don't have to share them with men.
I had this thought yesterday when I went to have my car fixed. At the dealership, they had a non-gender specific restroom and of course I had to use it. Anyone that knows me also knows that I have the bladder the size of a pea, and that when I go anywhere I have to immediately find a bathroom. Anyway, back to the dealership. When I went into their restroom, I stepped in a puddle of pee.
YES LADIES, THERE WAS A PUDDLE OF PEE ON THE FLOOR!!! Did I mention that the toilet seat was left up? As I've never known a woman to pee on the floor or leave the toilet seat up, I assume this little gift was left by a man.
To be fair to the dealership, this isn't the first time this has ever happened to me. It seems like non-gender specific restrooms are usually pretty gross. I'm not sure if I have high standards since I'm a woman, but I think that if a person pees on the floor, the least they can do is to let management know it's there. They don't even have to say they did it. The conversation could go something like this:
Pee-er: "*Cough* Excuse me, there is a problem in the bathroom. It seems that "someone" missed the toilet."
The End.
Perhaps men have this problem because they have to stand, but I'm starting to think that they pee in places just to mark their territory. "This bathroom/subway/street/alley is mine, all mine. I'll allow you to use it, but not until you step in my urine."
I'm not sure exactly why I'm writing this post. I'm not asking for all bathrooms to have real towels and vanities and perfume and mints. I guess that I'm just hoping that a man reads this post and vows to never pee on the floor in a shared restroom again. Men, I don't care if you pee on the floor in a men's restroom. Really. I don't. I'm just asking that you don't pee on the floor in a restroom that women have to use. You see, we simply aren't used to it, and we never will be.
If I can help change even one man's public restroom habits, I'll feel I've made a difference for women everywhere.
7 comments:
Um, ewwww....
Boys are so totally gross.
Can we make the comments all about disgusting bathroom stories?
Ok: here's mine. I used the public restroom in Cork, Ireland, bus station. It cost me 20 Euro cents.
There were wadded up diapers shoved behind the toilets. Note the plural. Pl-Ur-Al.
I blogged about it, and Radio Kerry called me up and let me complain on the air. They refuse to send me a CD of it, though, so I assume they made fun of me after I hung up. Whining American, that sort of thing.
All I have to say is: used diapers shoved behind the toilets. Thank you.
Oh, did I mention I needed the bathroom because I had a bladder infection and I was newly pregnant?
Yeah. Thanks, Ireland.
They should have let you use the bathroom for free if it was so dirty. I would have demanded my money back! :)
Now, I'm not trying to one-up you here, but if we're trading real horror stories, I once had to go to the bathroom in a train in Bangladesh.
I'm not even kidding when I say that the "bathroom" was a closet and the "toilet" was a hole in the floor. I could see the tracks flying by underneath the train. Also, the train was bumpy and I couldn't wash my hands since there wasn't a sink.
G-R-O-S-S
OK, that's a good one. Sarah?
This is hilarious! Especially the advice to the "pee-er" - I love it. I have witnessed urine on the floor and on the toilet seat in many ladies rooms though, the ones in the rest stops along I95 from DC to NJ are especially disgusting (or maybe it's just that those are the ones I see...). What, people are in such a rush they spray the whole area?
Or maybe like you said, it's a marking thing for everyone. lol, that was awesome.
Boys are gross.
I am pretty sure they have cooties.
They can not be rehabilitated.
(pray you have girls.)
(Don't tell my boys I said that.)
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