Using the toilet at a public restroom.

[Profile Name™]

Do you pretty much just sit down?
Or are there certain things that you do first?
Or are you like heavily and possibly overprepared?

Here are some examples:
- You might check several toilets before selecting which one to sit on.
- You might notice some drops of liquid or other stuff on the seat, and get a huge wad of toilet paper and wipe it off.
- You might lay sheets of toilet paper across the lid, so you have a protective barrier between it and your cheeks.
- You are a female with a purse or are an overly prepared male, so you either have some sanitizer lotion, a baby wipe, or something to disinfect this public toilet lid. Hell, maybe you are at the grocery store and you already grabbed some cleaning supplies from the restroom or one of the grocery store aisles.
- You squat, but don't let your butt touch the lid.
- You don't like the cheap, thin, narrow, sandpaper like toilet paper, so you brought your own. Or maybe you are in the grocery store and said "f this" and grabbed some expensive tissue and took it into the restroom with you.
- You sprayed the entire restroom with deodorizing spray first, so you can enjoy your few minutes without smelling a lot of stink.
- You waited and waited until everyone had left the restroom because you wanted to be in there alone.
- You try to cough a lot or whistle or make noises because you hear weird noises in the stall next to you. You just want them to stop making that noise or at least drown the sound out.
- You refuse to touch the sink faucet, the dryer button, or the door handle with your hands. You use a towel, part of your sleeve, or your shoe instead.
- Any other ideas that you have.

User submitted examples:
- Stand as far away from the toilet bowl as possible while it is flushing.
- Try to only use public restrooms in high end shopping malls, or wherever you think is safest and best.

[Profile Name™]

Publicado originalmente por TQ4beingMyDad:

Only use bathrooms in 5 star hotels or high-end shopping malls.
Put sheets on the seat and when fluashing stand as far away from the bowl as possible
Wash hands
Dry hands with paper towel and then close the faucet using the same paper towel if there's no hands-free motion sensing
Get a new paper towel for use on door handle when exiting

Good answers. I like the one where you stand as far away from the bowl as possible while flushing it. I do that too, but I didn't remember to add that to the list. Another thing is I always use my foot to flush the toilet.

[Aznees]

Make sure the toilet I use has been flushed so I don't have to stare at someone's waste while I'm peeing, also make sure the general area doesn't smell like a nuclear exclusion zone. Besides that, I'm fine.

[UncleShredder]

Never. I rather face a ticket whilst pissing against a tree or wait 'till iam home then entering one of those disgusting bogs.

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Publicado originalmente por Al Capwned:

I only pee and thank god I am a dude and I can stand for that!

I walk in, do my business, wash my hands and be on my way. The less time spent in a public restroom, the better.

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The janitor at my old high school said the girls bathroom was always the dirtiest over the boys. He wouldn't clean the girls bathroom with no less then 5 pairs of rubber gloves on. He said girls have no clue on how to get rid of their personal products. Throwing them on the floor, sticking them to the bathroom walls. He said he wished he had a hazmat suit to clean the girls bathroom.

[Rio]

Publicado originalmente por SnakeFist:

The janitor at my old high school said the girls bathroom was always the dirtiest over the boys. He wouldn't clean the girls bathroom with no less then 5 pairs of rubber gloves on. He said girls have no clue on how to get rid of their personal products. Throwing them on the floor, sticking them to the bathroom walls. He said he wished he had a hazmat suit to clean the girls bathroom.

They know, they just don't care.

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Publicado originalmente por Sashie:

Publicado originalmente por SnakeFist:

The janitor at my old high school said the girls bathroom was always the dirtiest over the boys. He wouldn't clean the girls bathroom with no less then 5 pairs of rubber gloves on. He said girls have no clue on how to get rid of their personal products. Throwing them on the floor, sticking them to the bathroom walls. He said he wished he had a hazmat suit to clean the girls bathroom.

They know, they just don't care.

Well that is true. If they did that at their house their parents would yell at them.

[Saarath]

Publicado originalmente por Shalltear Bloodfallen:

*Scoffs* Only filth uses public restrooms. I don't have time for such trivial matters, I have my servants defecate for me.

More people should use public restrooms, it is a great way to meet people and a good opportunity to converse with people whilst your on the pot. Nice and communal.

[Profile Name™]

Install cameras. Find out who the culprits are and punish them. Kidding. I believe that most women's restrooms are cleaner than men's. Because guys will pee standing up at the commode instead of pee at the urinal. Sometimes they don't have a choice because all the urinals are taken. But sometimes the urinals aren't being used and they do it anyway. If the females in this school are doing nasty things like this, it is because they don't like the janitor, the school, or the restrooms. What if the the trash cans are inconveniently placed? What if they think the janitor is a creep or they just like picking on low income waged workers? I have snuck in women's restrooms before, and they were always cleaner. I think this was an exception to that, but not the standard.

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Publicado originalmente por postandreply:

Install cameras. Find out who the culprits are and punish them. Kidding. I believe that most women's restrooms are cleaner than men's. Because guys will pee standing up at the commode instead of pee at the urinal. Sometimes they don't have a choice because all the urinals are taken. But sometimes the urinals aren't being used and they do it anyway. If the females in this school are doing nasty things like this, it is because they don't like the janitor, the school, or the restrooms. What if the the trash cans are inconveniently placed? What if they think the janitor is a creep or they just like picking on low income waged workers? I have snuck in women's restrooms before, and they were always cleaner. I think this was an exception to that, but not the standard.

Wow you just made your self look like a perv.

[Profile Name™]

I wasn't being the slightest bit pervertish when I checked out the restrooms. I was just curious. It was either like at a university campus when classes were over and I knew it was safe. Or like when I had a cleaning job. That sort of stuff. I am a perv, but not when it comes to things like public restrooms. That's gross. I just like women. Nothing wrong with that.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I used to clean bathrooms as part of a job at a gas station, long ago. Mens and Womens, it didn't matter, both were equally as bad.

I carry a few claning naps[www.officedepot.com] with me when I go out, so if I have to use a bathroom, I can clean the toilet seat properly before sitting down. I found that thin paper to be useless and causes more issues then it is worth, especialy if the seat is damp.

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Publicado originalmente por postandreply:

I wasn't being the slightest bit pervertish when I checked out the restrooms. I was just curious. It was either like at a university campus when classes were over and I knew it was safe. Or like when I had a cleaning job. That sort of stuff. I am a perv, but not when it comes to things like public restrooms. That's gross. I just like women. Nothing wrong with that.

No thereis nothing awrong with liking women. Just seems a bit weird when you said you sneak in to womans restrooms. I mean what are people supposed to think when you tell them that.

[Profile Name™]

I don't think that gas stations are good for comparison either. Because their restrooms are the worst of the worst. I think to get a good idea you would need to go to McDonald's, a workplace restroom, a university campus restroom, and the mall. I am thinking about adults too. Not kids. Kids are probably different. They haven't matured yet. I mean kids run around with snot hanging from their nose.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por postandreply:

I don't think that gas stations are good for comparison either. Because their restrooms are the worst of the worst. I think to get a good idea you would need to go to McDonald's, a workplace restroom, a university campus restroom, and the mall. I am thinking about adults too. Not kids. Kids are probably different. They haven't matured yet. I mean kids run around with snot hanging from their nose.

Nope. Doesn't matter if child or adult. I remember one guy, at a different job, smeared poop on the stall walls (still worked there afte being talked to about it, despite the janitor being angry).

I've cleaned them in movie theaters as well. My father in-law worked at a hospital and the same thing. Even my wife says the ladies rooms are just as dirty, though often in a different way then mens. One example: periods. Guys may leave urine on the toilet seat, but there is often blood in the ladies rooms that also has to be cleaned up. Then there is the makup on the counter. Common bathrooms like a shared one, in a girls dorm, hair dye.