Hey fellow males (and females who use the Men’s bathroom),
I have a strange question that most pertains to other guys out there that has been bothering me for some time. Does anybody notice how the bathroom floor always seems to be wet around the toilet or urinal in heavily used public bathrooms? I have my speculations, but don’t want to cloud anybody else’s innate judgment. What do you guys think?
Thanks,
Kellen
Well, not always, but I have noticed this often. I have decided there are four possibilities:
That last one could include misaimed streams, splatters, and post-piss drip.
Not really a factual Q/A, but OK.
I also have noticed this. I think some of it is from people flushing the urinals, and a light mist coming up from when it splashs in the bottom. The mist would collect and gather at the bottom, making a puddle.
I also think its from the people who have no respect or regard of others who either use or clean the bathrooms. Bottom of the barrel in my opinion.
Where I work, and most of the ones I see, it is toilet ejaculate. The high-force, low flow flushers spew water everywhere. I always have pants on and door unlatched so I can flush and run before the toilet shower.
There’s more “splash” around a toilet than you might think both from flushing and standing males doing their business. It’s not always visible. Have you ever noticed in public restrooms with particians made of painted steel that the particians are oftentimes rusting out? Maybe you have a painted steel baseboard in your bathroom at home and have noticed that the area near the toilet is corroding.
In your case of a heavily used public bathroom there could be a number of explanations. In any event, a lot more is splashing out of the recepticle than you might think. This is especially true of a urinal with a flushometer that is not adjusted properly and is forcefully sending water into the bowl.
Some reason, this phrasing perturbs me. :dubious:
We aim to please.
You aim too. Please!
Well, It seemed like an accurate description of the event. You can come over and watch the toilet squirt if you want. You’ll wanna wear something waterproof. I’ve had a really bad weekend of bad bathrooms at a convention, perhaps I am not in the proper mood to discuss filthy public bathrooms.
I agree with spartydog. I would only add that I think there is a significant amount of pee reflecting off the toilet/urinal to the floor. This effect isn’t noticeable until many people are using the bathroom and evaporation loses the battle to accumulation. I started thinking about this issue when I was peeing late one afternoon when the sun was low in the sky and I could see recoiling pee from my toilet. Small droplets were going off in every direction, and then it hit me (not just my reflecting pee) that this explains why public bathrooms have such wet floors. Obviously, some of the effect must be from drunken asses that can’t aim; but, honestly guys, when I am drunk I still hit the toilet every time. Is this just me? Additionally, the reliability of the wet floor makes me skeptical of the bad aim theory. Contrary to most females, I just don’t believe there are that many guys pissing on the floor. What do you think?
It also explains some of the pervasive restroom odor.
Try using a urinal while wearing shorts, and you’ll see (feel!) just how much splashback there really is… :eek:
Yeah I think it’s pee on the floor.
Try standing up and peeing in a bathroom that has sun shining in the window. LOTS of little droplets splashing out of the toilet. That’s why I pee sitting down in my own bathroom, I’m the one that’s gotta clean it and I don’t like washing up piss.
I always thought public bathrooms should be designed so the whole room can be flushed with soap/disinfectant and water. That way we wouldn’t need people to clean the bathroom.
When I worked my low-wage high school and college jobs, I always waited for them to ask me to clean the bathrooms, but nobody ever did. Good thing too, I would have quit first! Funny thing is, at one toy store the manager (a maybe 25-35yo guy) cleaned the restrooms, I guess because he knew none of us teenagers would.
What’s cool is to make the bathroom as dark as possible and shine a fluorescent Black Light.
You’d be amazed how many sprinklets end up around a standard Porcelain Splashfactory.
The TV show Mythbusters did an experiment on how much crap comes out of the toilet when you flush it. Very enlightening.
Not just piss. Whenever you flush, even a standard home toilet fixture, there is a spectacular eruption of tiny water droplets and whatever fine particles of, er, debris may be contained therein.
Closing the lid helps, but there’s a huge marketing opportunity for someone who wants to take an x-ray movie of a toilet being flushed, lid down, after someone empties their barium enema. Consumer panic will ensue and another round of anti-bacterial soaps will fly off the shelves.
Or, just try not to think about it.
And wear sandals, too.
Ugh…Every summer I think about what I do with my shoes and pants in the winter after using public restrooms…