# To the Women in my Building--TMI & Gross **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279 "2008-08-08T13:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/21 "2008-08-10T16:09:30Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] What is the proverbial bandbox 😕 [/QUOTE] Brand Spanking New. Just out of the Box. Pristine. Untouched. Perfect. Hatbox might have been better. Not sure what a bandbox actually is. Well, according to my internal thesaurus, anyway. N. Sane may have meant the ladies are Groupies… ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/22 "2008-08-10T16:39:55Z")
Hah! I laugh at your delicate constitution and fragile senses!!! You haven’t lived until you’ve had to use a “squat ‘n’ drop” at a truck-stop / roadside mosque on the highway between Dammam and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. I was 29 weeks pregnant at the time (going to Riyadh for a business trip), so couldn’t last the 4.5 hour trip from Bahrain to Riyadh without a stop midway to pee. Of the 3 so-called toilets, 2 had faeces smeared all over the rim (where you should put your feet), so I was left holding my abbaya and dress (a caftan of sorts) up out of the urine that was liberally sprinkled all over the floor. Unfortunately, that didn’t leave me with a hand spare to hold my nose against the stench of decomposing human waste. Bleccccchhhhhhh! The worst thing was knowing I would have to go through it all again the next day on the way back! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/23 "2008-08-10T16:49:27Z")
Why are the Google ads in this thread for Tug-Ahoy? (You _do_ remember our good friend JDT, don’t you?) ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/24 "2008-08-11T20:40:32Z")
Ads: Poop Freeze, The Ultimate Toilet Seat, and Farm & Barn Toilet! Alas, I don’t know who the disgusting pigs are, so I cannot type this up anonymously and leave it on their desks. Several months back I did a very helpful and informative flow chart on proper bathroom procedure, and one of my friends made copies and taped them on the doors of each stall, but they were ripped off and thrown onto the floor within an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/25 "2008-08-12T10:58:19Z")
**Baker** reminded me in a MPSIMS thread (about my foot) that he’d posted a link to that old thread of mine. So, I promised to post in this thread a joke my parents sent me recently. > [@](#): > > _The Joke_ > > A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an > organization… > > Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange. > > When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, “Why the spoon?” > > "Well,"he explained, “the restaurant’s owners hired McKinsey Consulting to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to he kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.” > > As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare. “I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.” > > I was impressed. I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, “Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?” > > “Oh, certainly!” Then he lowered his voice. “Not everyone is so observant.That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of you know what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need > to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent.” > > I then asked him, “After you get it out, how do you put it back?” > > “Well,” he whispered, “I don’t know about the others, but I use the spoon.” ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/26 "2008-08-13T01:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] Hah! I laugh at your delicate constitution and fragile senses!!! You haven’t lived until you’ve had to use a “squat ‘n’ drop” at a truck-stop / roadside mosque on the highway between Dammam and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. [/QUOTE] I feel lucky that the covenience stores in Japan are remarkably clean. The only problem I have with squat toilets is that if your stomach is already in a bit of distress, compressing it by squatting doesn’t help much. My worst bathroom story is when I spilled soup on myself at the beginning of the NYC-Boston Chinatown bus trip. I had to change from my soaked jeans to my uncomfortable suit pants, which were the only others I had. I walked to the back and opened the door on a very surprised Chinese lady, who I guess didn’t know what a lock was. After she left, I walk in to discover that there’s pee on every horizontal surface. I don’t think it all came from this one lady, but she was _rather_ surprised, after all. I had to take off my wet pants while balancing my others on some part of my body (my head? I can’t remember), trying not to touch any pee-soaked surface at the time. At one point my leg was propped against the rear wall above the toilet. Oh, did I mention that the bus was moving? I managed to do it without getting my pants wet with other people’s pee. Mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279/27 "2008-08-13T04:40:33Z")
My unscientific poll with custodians and maintenance folks over the years (don’t ask) among public buildings, private buildings, campgrounds, hotels, motels, and any place else that has toilet facilities open to the public is that the women’s restrooms are not only universally far dirtier than men’s restrooms, but the messes in women’s restrooms are not confined to a selected locations, nor methods, nor degree of filth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-women-in-my-building-tmi-gross/459279.md?page=1)