Public Rest Rooms

Aunt Bea said:
When I need to use the bathroom I throw caution to the wind. LOL!!!
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I agree,Aunt Bea. Can't be choosy sometimes. Did you ever notice when you have to go,the closer you get to the toilet the worse it gets? No time to even line the toilet with TP. Maybe it's just me.
 

debodun said:
How close do you get to the porcelain in a public rest room? Do you use the TP there?
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If they provide wax paper seat covers, I use them every time. If not I use TP to line the plastic or wooden seat before sitting down, never made contact with the porcelain of a bowl. In outhouse or more rural facilities, I use TP if accessable, or always have my own tissues or paper towels. I always use the TP if it's there.
 
I use the seat covers or line with TP every time. Then use the ole foot maneuver to flush if they don't have the sensors! And that is becoming a trick at my age now! LOL
 
I'm short so I have to sit. I use several layers of toilet seat covers. None available? I'm lining with TP. I do use the TP but I pull off some and discard that in case it was touched. If I got to go, I'll use public toilets. Really they are no dirtier than the ones at work.
 
Poison oak leaves, so we could build up a tolerance. Actually, TP was kept in a sealed coffee can and a flashlight hung from the wall -- to check for spiders under the lid, of course. Farm kids are tough for lots of reasons!
 
Sunny said:
I've gotta say, this is the most hilarious discussion I've ever seen in a computer forum! ;)
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Fix the Outhouse
Ma was in the kitchen fiddling around when she hollers out,
"Pa! You need to go out and fix the outhouse!"

Pa replies, "There ain't nuthin wrong with the outhouse."

Ma yells back, "Yes there is, now git out there and fix it."

So Pa mosies out to the outhouse,looks around and yells back,
"Ma! There ain't nuthin wrong with the outhouse!"

Ma replies, "Stick yur head in the hole!"

Pa yells back, "I ain't stickin my head in that hole!

"Ma says, "Ya have to stick yur head in the hole to see what to fix."

So with that, Pa sticks his head in the hole, looks around and yells back, "Ma! There ain't nuthin wrong with this outhouse!"

Ma hollers back, "Now take your head out of the hole!"

Pa proceeds to pull his head out of the hole, then starts yelling,
"Ma! Help! My beard is stuck in the cracks in the toilet seat!"

To which Ma replies,"Hurts, don't it?!"
 
I make sure the seat is not wet, I line it with toilet paper (doubled if it's the thin cheap kind) then I sit. My days of squatting were over years ago. That would be a sure fire way of wetting myself or the seat. I tear off the exposed piece of toilet paper so that I'm not getting a piece that I have no way of knowing who touched it or how germy their hands were. Sometimes I have to spray before I even hit the stall if the bathroom doesn't smell so good. I always keep a trial size Ozium (used in hospitals and clinics) in my purses. One quick shot takes care of germs and bacteria. Finally, after washing my hands, if I have to touch a doorknob or handle to get out, I touch it with a paper towel.

Kitties said she uses toilet seat covers when she can. I HATE those things. I've only found two places where they worked. One was at JC Penneys, the other at Glasko Smith Kline when I did research studies for them. Other places, they rip or don't fit the seats properly or come out in a clump. Another thing I hate...those damned automatic flushers. They can be health risks. I have had a few of them flush while I was still sitting there! One had started to flush like every 30 seconds. WTH!!! So I avoid them when I can and have now learned to place my hand in front of the sensor until I can sit down (not easy to do when you're trying to line the seat) !!
 
I try to squat without touching anything and then try to drip dry without using the TP (not always successful with female anatomy). I get a paper towel after hand washing to even touch the door handle. I hate it when there's no warm or any water in the sink, no hand soap and no towels, or the electric hand drier isn't working. My mom carried her own TP in a plastic baggie for such emergencies. Sometimes all those happen. Then there's the usual harried mom changing a baby's diaper in one of the sinks.
 
I agree with you Sunny,but it kept me smiling,while reading! Very interesting!:)For myself-I'm always glad to find that place..... very quickly!
 
debodun said:
I try to squat without touching anything and then try to drip dry without using the TP (not always successful with female anatomy). I get a paper towel after hand washing to even touch the door handle. I hate it when there's no warm or any water in the sink, no hand soap and no towels, or the electric hand drier isn't working. My mom carried her own TP in a plastic baggie for such emergencies. Sometimes all those happen. Then there's the usual harried mom changing a baby's diaper in one of the sinks.
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What I hate the most about public restroom are the "hoverers" who pee all over the seat, then leave it.
 
All these germ worriers probably have their toothbrushes in open holders in the same room as their toilets. Every time they flush, the germs are landing on their toothbrush. Just saying.
 
nvtribefan said:
All these germ worriers probably have their toothbrushes in open holders in the same room as their toilets. Every time they flush, the germs are landing on their toothbrush. Just saying.
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So true. And then there's this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hazards-of-public-toilet-use-debunked-1.3172754 Excerpt: But those worries are overblown, according to one microbiologist in Toronto. "Unless you lick the toilet seat, there's really no likelihood of you catching an infection," says Jason Tetro, an author and researcher otherwise known as the Germ Guy.
 
Most germs are aridity and cold liable, that is they can't survive for long outside an environment that is not warm and moist like inside a human body. A toilet seat is not conducive to virus and bacterial survival. That is not to say you couldn't contract ANYTHING. Why take a chance?

And about the toothbrush - at least they are MY germs and I know I do not have any deadly communicable diseases.
 

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