I worked in two different nightclubs, and my job as a busser(glass collector/slave) meant that I went in and out of the girls’ toilets as well as the guys’. From my own experience and speaking to others in the industry it seems to be a fact that the girls’ toilets are always, ALWAYS in much more skanky than the guys’. Blocked toilets, piss on the seats, on the floors… puke, used tampons lying around(yes really). You remember the toilet in Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie? Like that, in the girl’s toilets. A lot. Not to say the gents’ were spotless, but they were a damn sight cleaner and tidier. Remember the worst club toilet you ever went into? I pretty much guarantee that the girls was in as bad a state or worse.
So women are pigs too. Especially when they’re drunk
Women are bigger pigs than men - blacks are no more likely to attack you than whites - There is actually a pretty woman in the UK - Subway will not actually make you thinner by default… what do I have left to believe in? Everything society has tought me is a lie! A stinking LIE!!!
I always figured women’s rooms would be cleaner than men’s, as dirtier restrooms is a scary thought. But I’ve been told by some women that this is not the case.
Think about the plumbing… it’s so much easier for a guy to take a leak without making a mess (not that many have perfect aim, but stilll…). Also, men don’t have dirty tampons to leave lying around, otherwise I’m sure they would…
From personal experience I’ve found that women will absolutely trash a bathroom that has multiple stalls in it. I have to admit it suprised the heck out of me. I too had assumed they would have kept it very nice. I think the men’s bathroom stays cleaner because men tend to just use the urinal and leave.
And the men’s room has the benefit of being sprayed with germ-killing urine!
Seriously, don’t more women use the restrooms in public places? Didn’t the potty parity study prove this? Wasn’t there some hubbub about ten years ago – a promise that new modern buildings would be built with more facilities for the womens to prevent over-use when they do they bidness?
Seriously, I do remember a spate of articles claiming that, because women take longer, what with all the trouble of locking and unlocking stall doors, wiping, and washing our hands, the women’s room ended up being a crowd zone. The proposed solution was to stopping building men’s and women’s rooms with the same number of facilities and sinks. But I don’t know if this happened.
Personally, I think we should have unisex bathrooms. All the ladies and gentlemen would be on their best behavior for the other sex. Although I don’t know if we delicate females could stand the smell…and the sounds!!!
As a woman who has also cleaned men’s bathrooms, I’m not sure I necessarily agree.
Granted, you have women who can’t seem to fathom how to appropriately dispose of their hygiene products. And I’ve often wondered if the women who hover over the seat for fear of catching something realize that they’re precisely the ones who get piss all over the toilet seats - something that men, by definition, don’t do. (Although I did used to work with a guy, at a company that just had regular toilets in the men’s room, who was rumored to not put the seat up. He later suffered an industrial accident. In what could only be instant karma, he now presumably sits to pee, unless he can aim without using his hands.)
However, back to my original point. I worked at a full-service resaturant in a mall when I was in high school, and as the take-out counter person (as opposed to the regular waitstaff), I was responsible for cleaning the bathrooms and taking out the trash at night. The women’s trash was frequently overflowing because nobody was responsible for taking it out during operating hours, but only once did I ever refuse to clean either one. That was the night I went into the men’s room and not only found the biggest log I’ve ever seen - maybe it wouldn’t flush because it was too big to fit down the pipes - but someone had taken the soap dispenser off the wall and put that in the toilet as well. Say what you like about women, I can’t picture one of us doing that.
I quit not long afterwards for a job in the food court. It paid better and the mall’s maintenance people were responsible for the bathrooms.
I’d say there are pigs on both sides of the fence, so to speak. My hubby has a horror story of a “log” in the men’s room at the convenience store where he worked as a teen which may rival your story, Wolfgrrl. The whole staff apparently stood around in awe, trying to figure out how this deposit was even anatomically possible.
I have no clue how messy men’s restrooms can get, but women’s restrooms can certainly get messy. You get the overflowing wastebaskets (which are usually handily built into the walls of the stalls), feminine hygeine products (used and unused) dropped on the floors, perfectly functional and yet unflushed toilets, pee on the toilet seat, and so forth.
I’ve established two theories for pee on the toilet seat.
Theory A: a woman is grossed out by the thought of pee/germs on the seat and hovers above it, thus making her incapable of easily directing the flow of urine into the bowl and proving she is just as inconsiderate as those she fears have messed up the seat.
Theory B: a woman is so hasty or just plain sloppy that she stands up before wiping completely (or doesn’t wipe at all after peeing) and dribbles on the seat, and possibly also the floor and her own pants. (Women dribble more than men; it’s an unfortunate fact of our anatomy.)
I’m actually not sure which theory grosses me out more…
This is NOT a forum for exchanging anecdotes about the dirtiest or worst ever bathroom stories. This is a forum for comments on Cecil’s column. I grant you, that Cecil’s column sort of invites this kind of insidious one-upspersonship – I was going to say, pissing contest, but I thought better of it. In any case, we’ve now gone overboard. If you want to continue this type of discussion, open a new thread in MPSIMS.
