Ok, some of the recent bathroom threads (mostly in the Pit, mind you, but this isn’t really a rant, so … unless a mod thinks it belongs there, I’m posting it in MPSIMS) has gotten me to thinking, and I remembered something that happened to me a couple of years ago.
A friend and I had stopped a this exclusive beach resort and had a couple of drinks in the bar. I had to go to the bathroom, so made my way to the womens restroom, which was surprisingly small and cramped even for the overall atmostphere of the resort, frankly. Speaking of cramped, my stomach had been hurting most of the day, and in fact I was glad to make it to the restroom in time. Just barely in time, unfortunately! I kind of stunk up the bathroom, and some other person in there (and I’ll grant that it was a rather tiny space) felt that they had to make a comment about the smell! She even acted like she was going to keel over from the aroma … talk about over-reacting! Naturally, I knew I was the offender, and was totally embarrassed that someone had voiced nasty comments. Aside from that it was totally rude to do that, isn’t it a little crass too, especially given that it was an “exclusive” (read expensive) resort?! Ill-manners knows no bounds, I guess, but still… anyone else ever experience this sort of thing? I should have said something when I came out of the stall, but instead just discreetly washed my hands and slipped out of the door!
Geesh, it’s not like you made a smell on purpose! What a jerk.
Wasn’t there a thread recently in IMHO by some guy who claimed it was rude to poop in a public bathroom, and anybody who did was a) deserving of ridicule, and b) had something wrong with their digestive systems? I tried a search, but it didn’t work right.
Stinking up a public bathroom is bad manners. I have been known to express loud disgust at people doing that. So sue me.
Why is it okay to openly criticize people who fart in public for their lack of class and civility, but not to criticize them for stinking up the john? It could be argued that farting, too, is a natural function that can’t be helped, no?
Well, I don’t think it’s appropriate to castigate someone for farting, either. It is polite of the farter, if possible, to remove himself to somewhere more private to lay one. But that’s not always possible.
It’s not rude to poop in a public bathroom because THAT’S WHAT BATHROOMS ARE FOR!
Geez, if you have to poop and you’re not at home, what choice do you have?
Bull. What are bathrooms for? Pissin’ and shittin’. And sometimes I stink up the joint. If someone is offended, they can take their foofoo little butts elsewhere.
What the hell would you propose we do? Save our bowel movements in little plastic baggies until we get home? Besides, why are you spending so much time in the bathroom if you don’t like how it smells.:dubious
The only thing I hate in the bathroom is when someone is being overly dramatic. I’ll be plopped down, doing the dirty into the porceline smile, minding my own business when I hear someone a few stalls over. The person is grunting, groaning, and practically having a conversation with his inner colon. “aww yeah…one more…one more…ahhh”.
Then I hear a “splash” and a huge sigh, as if he had just shat a watermellon.
I mean really, do we have to be subjected to masterbatory grunts and groans? Can you really enjoy a shit that much?
Meatros, I don’t spend much time in the bathroom. I think you’ve got me confused with someone else. I severely limit my time in public bathrooms. It’s bad enough that you have to listen to other people’s sloppy diarrhea, but having to smell it is too much. Or, to sit in it, like a friend of mine once did in a public restroom in Central Park. He didn’t look, assuming that, just because he never shits on the seat, no one else does, either. Poor sap.
If it didn’t, Fitz & Floyd would bag it up and sell it as potpourri.
“Hi, I’d like a bag of your Shitz & Floyd potpourri. Lactose Intolerant fragrance, please.”
My point is, if you don’t want to smell shit, don’t go into a bathroom, because that’s what they are there for. Making comments to someone about their bowel odor in a bathroom, IMHO is wrong. I mean, shouldn’t you be happy that they made it to the bathroom in the first place.
Scarlett…I’ts painfully obvious that Miss Manners has never spent any time on a crowded subway. If someone farts in close vicinity and you can’t get away, what are you supposed to do, be all stoic and pretend it didn’t happen? You are not allowed to acknowledge that someone farted, right? So it would follow that you can’t hold your nose, or even wrinkle it daintily as you turn away your head to dodge the worst of the fumes. You just have to stare ahead and suffer in silence? I don’t think so.
The other morning, the train was it’s usual crowded self, and I was squeezed between a man and a women, with two women standing in front of us. It was all very tight. All of a sudden, the air turned green. Most of us held our noses and let out muffled moans. Personally, I suspect the guy on my left, because at first he acted like nothing happened, but then, when everyone else reacted, he joined in in that phony, half-assed way. But it could have been anyone. That’s the downside if you’re lucky enough to get as seat on a crowded train: Your nose is just about on the same level as the asses of the people standing all around. Puts one in quite a vulnerable position.
Today I went to the bathroom to discreetly take a poop. There are 9, count 'em, 9 stalls in the bathroom. I pick the one farthest to the end. Otherwise the bathroom is empty, but some woman came in and got in the stall closest to me. Wtf? I consider that rude. I try to be discreet by going to the end and taking care of business and she comes in and sits next to me. There should be some etiquette rule that dictates that you don’t go crowding someone when there are 8 other stalls to choose from. Sheesh.
Indygrrl – yep. For some strange reason it’s not uncommon for people to do that. For heaven’s sake, people, give the person in the last stall some privacy! Is there anyone out there who happens to be guilty of this minor transgression? I have always been curious what motivates people to chose that stall when others are available.
That is highly annoying, although I’d say it’s worse for men. It sucks to be at the end of a long line of empty urinals and have a guy choose the stall right beside you to piss. I’m like, WTF?
You know, I agree with this. The bathroom is one thing. It’s supposed to be used for foul emissions, but out in public? I can understand if a few “air balloons” accidently smuggle themselves out-that’s one thing. But when someone just busts ass whenever, that’s quite a different, disgusting story.
Case in Point. My fiance works with a woman. Woman X has utterly bad hygene skills, aside from just her usual nausiating aroma, she plays the ass trumpet whenever, whereever. It’s disgusting. My fiance is at her desk and woman X comes over to her desk, to talk about something, burps, then let’s a “Bad break” go and walks off. The odor hangs as though it were fighting to stay alive.
You know, I think I’ll amend my previous comment, to say this: If the fart in question is of an accidental nature, then no comment is warranted. IF on the other hand, you can tell that the fartee had not considered those around him/her when expelling their gas, then I say you can make it known that you disapprove of their flatulents. Also, if the fartee expels multiple farts, then you also have a right to object to their nasty ass gas.
I mean, an accident is one thing; doing it on purpose/ or repeatedly is quite another.
Meatros – not to appear petty or anything like that (wouldn’t dream of it), but I think you mean farter, not fartee. The farter would be the one farting. The fartee, OTH, if there is such a word, would be the one subjected to having to smell/hear the fart.