OT: public rest rooms hygiene question

Audrey · 2008-04-19T14:04:37+00:00

I lurk here, have learned alot about cross stitch, (thank you!), nowhave a strange questions completely OT.I was in a public rest room, and another lady and I finished using thetoilet at the same time. I stepped to the sink to wash my hands, shewent directly to the paper towels, pumped the handle on the dispensera few times, then tore the paper off and went to wash her hands. I'msure she does that so she doesn't wash her hands and touch the towelmachine afterwards, where she would pick up everyone else's germs.However, now I've got clean hands and have to use that paper towelmachine that she has just touched *immediately after using thetoilet*! Do you see what the problem is? That's why the "wave yourhands here" kind of towel machine is so good, but this one wasn't likethat.Now I'm trying to think of a way to avoid this in the future. I can'tavoid this ladies room, it's the one at my place of employment. Andbesides, how many people do this in other public rest rooms? Do youthink I could have or should have made any comment to her? I doubtit, seeing that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. And what wouldbe the appropriate thing to say? Somehow, "eeeeuuuuwwwww!" didn'tseem right. ;P I didn't recognize this lady as a co-worker, butwhether she was a co-worker or not, what could I say?Thanks for any advice you can offer.Audrey

Apr 19, 2008 109 Replies

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Fred 18 years ago

IIRC the 2-seater was more correctly called a 2-holer. Butt I might be mistaken. One size for children and one size for adults.

Back home we had the 2-holer. I often wondered where the carpenter got the dimensions for the holes. My 24" carpenter's square (80+ yrs.old) has 100s of graduations for everything one could possibly need but nothing for butts. I never figured out why a cresent shaped moon was sometimes cut into the door either.

One thing was for certain - no one in their right mind would have had an indoor commode (thunder mug). Doing natures calling inside where one slept, cooked and ate was unthinkable! How times have changed.

Fred

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you are on thin ice,you might as well dance.Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.

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Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkn 18 years ago

Lots of good stuff (related in an amusing way) here

and also here

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Fred 18 years ago

Thanks! That was a hoot! I have been to husker country, saw catalogue holders but never saw a cob box. I'm thinking it must be a joke but one never knows. So now we are crappin in the house and barbecuing meals in the back yard - weird. LOL

Fred

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MargW 18 years ago

In fact, most people did have a china commode in the house. Well - that's what washstands were for - the 'thunder mug' went in the cupboard underneath.

I can remember as a child when visiting my grandparents, we had a thunder mug in the bedroom closet for those middle of the night 'potty breaks'. Carrying it down the narrow stairs in the morning to be emptied in the outhouse was a challenge.

Using that outhouse in the middle of a Sault Ste Marie winter - brrrr. My grandparents didn't get running water into the house until the middle of the 1950s.

MargW

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Joan E. 18 years ago

He loved it...thought it was great!

Joan

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Ericka Kammerer 18 years ago

You lived/visited in Sault Ste. Marie? Canada or US? We spent 2 1/2 loooong years there in the mid-1970s.

Best wishes, Ericka

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MargW 18 years ago

Soo, Ontario. My grandparents had a farm out in Korah township. We moved to the Soo in the mid-50s, and lived there until 1961. Lots of McQueen and Stone relatives still there.

MargW

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Joan E. 18 years ago

GGRRRROOOOAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!

Joan

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Pat P 18 years ago

Some old grannies` saying make sense - like "You`ll eat a peck of dirt before you die!"

I only just realised that my ex-son-in-law`s new wife must be a bit obsessive. I just brought her in a cup of tea yesterday and she leapt up saying that she MUST wash her hands first! (It wasn`t a euphemism - that`s really all she did - she left the bathroom door open and continued talking to me!).

For Heaven`s sake - (make mental note not to go on a picnic with her!).

Pat

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