# People who use public toilets and don't flush after using them

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-use-public-toilets-and-dont-flush-after-using-them/244932>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 13, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-use-public-toilets-and-dont-flush-after-using-them/244932 "2004-05-13T11:08:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-use-public-toilets-and-dont-flush-after-using-them/244932/41 "2004-05-19T00:15:17Z")

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> Not to defend the disgusting practice, but is it possible that the flusher’s broken?

Sure, it spossible it happens once in a while. But frankly, its not uncommon to see this in half the stalls at airports, or any semipublic restroom.

Actually, my college (U-tennessee) wasn’t so bad. The library restrooms sometime had such rude people, but the dorm guys were good about flushing.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-use-public-toilets-and-dont-flush-after-using-them/244932/42 "2004-05-19T14:51:13Z")

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I dunno if University bathrooms are the worst. I mean, what about rest stops on highways? Those can be pretty nasty.

In fact, I can think of one especially nasty one that I always seem to stop at, because it’s so pretty on the outside. Just past Texarkana in Texas on I-30 (or I-40, by the time I get there from MI, I forget what highway I’m on).

It’s a BEAUTIFUL rest stop. Great landscaping, big trees, well-lit, all shiny and new, toilets all working. I usually stop here to take a nap. Last April when I drove down to Austin, we got there around, oh, 3 in the morning. As I walk to the bathroom, I see2 or 3 guys come out of the womens’ bathroom. Confused, I make sure this really IS the womans’. Yup. I go in, and there’s piss on 90% of the toilets. Like these guys went in and just peed all over the bathroom. I asked Cody if the men’s room was broken. Nope.

WTF? Why would you do that?

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