Ah, public washrooms, the places you go when you can’t avoid not going.
My pet peeves, from the male perspective:
- People who do not wad up paper towels before throwing them in the waste bin. This means the bin fills to overflowing much sooner than it otherwise might. Wadding up a damp paper towel is not a difficult task. It is not something that is likely to result in a pulled muscle or other injury or to cause mental anguish. And yet people don’t do this and the waste bin fills to overflowing and there’s a bunch of unwadded paper towels being trampled on all over the floor. Wad your paper towels, people!
- Speaking of the floor, people who pee all around the urinal. The urinal is a trough designed specifically to pee in. Strangely this is insufficient for many people who, instead of peeing into the urinal, water the floor all around it. We’re talking real puddles here. I am not sure how one’s aim can be so very not true.
- And speaking of puddles, the sink counter is likely to resemble a flood plain, with every bit of its surface covered in water because people cannot wash their hands without getting copious amounts of water splashed all about the counter. Some of it may even manages to get into the sink itself.
- People who leave toilet seats unclean. I will say no more.
- People who hog the hand dryers. If your hands are cold, stick them in your pockets. Or your pants. I don’t care, just get away from the hand dryer before you short it out from over-usage.
- People who talk on their cell phones while engaged in #1 or #2. These may be the same people featured in points #2 and #4.
- The smell. A clean washroom is okay, any other has a smell that is just wrong.
As always, there is probably more but that seems like a good starter list. I wonder if public washrooms would be nicer if people treated them as they would their own.
Or maybe I don’t want to see what the average person’s washroom looks like.