You’re in the communal washroom at work and have just finished using the toilet - and it was number twos, and you accidentally knock a whole, unused toilet roll off a shelf above the cistern (let’s say this was entirely your fault, and not negligence on the part of whoever decided to put it there - maybe you’re putting your jacket back on and you knock it, or something).
The roll falls into the water in the unflushed pan, becoming soaked halfway through with urine and water that has poop in it. The top half appear fairly dry still.
What Joey P said. Otherwise my office is across the hall, so I’d go grab a spare plastic shopping bag and use that as a “glove” to scoop up the roll, then enclose it to avoid dripping on the way to the garbage can.
Don’t do what I did when I lived in a shared student house. Foolishly, I thought it would flush down, so pulled the handle and left the bathroom. My roomie then arrived and took a shit on top of it. The toilet was completely blocked and threatening to overflow. Since it was my fault I was honour bound to stick my arm in, past my roommate’s substantial turd, and hoick the bloody thing out. I still shudder about that one.
Yes. It happened to me the other day, except that the roll fell in there as the flush began, so the roll was entirely soaked with dirty water. I picked it out by hand, and stood there waiting for the room to be empty, so I could carry it across to the bin without the embarrassment beeing seen/having to explain myself. Then I washed my hands surgical scrub style, twice.
Basically pick it out, dispose of it and wash well, as others have said.
In addition, if the workplace has a custodian or other person in charge of restroom cleaning and maintenance, I might notify them so they could empty the stinky trash sooner than they might otherwise.
Do we have Housekeeping/Janitorial staff? If so, I’ll put a note on the door and call them quick - not to ask them to deal with it, but to see if I can borrow a pair of their gloves to deal with it myself.
Of course, if they say they’ll take care of it, I’ll be more than happy to let them!
If there’s no janitorial staff, then I’m going to just take a deep breath and grab it, and scrub like hell after.
Pretty much what everyone else said. At my work, there’s a plunger in the bathroom, so I would probably use the handle to fish the roll out. If that didn’t work, we have rubber gloves stocked everywhere, it’s just that I would have to leave the bathroom to get them and would rather take care of it without needing to leave the room first if I could help it.
Grabbing it bare-handed would be a last resort, but it’s certainly not out of the question!
Well, good job on that (serious, not snark). The only thing I would have done different is to use a wad of toilet paper to pick it up, to avoid the worst of it, or maybe get a plastic bag like Ferret Herder suggested.
