*Lea Thompson

This feature stated pretty plainly that the niceness is a facade she finds tiresome. Begone. 

I did a retail gig for the holiday season last year that stretched into the spring. WTF about shopping makes so many people poop so much?  I could not use the bathroom at my store because it was always so gross.  Poo everywhere.

Back the 80's there was a big rock concert at the State Fairgrounds. They didn’t sell booze, but you bring anything you wanted as long as it was in a plastic container. Gallon milk jugs were the usual way. Naturally this led to a lot of people needing to pee and the line to the woman’s room was huge, so more than a…

If you can remember the level of graffiti that was on the walls of almost every single public restroom back n the 70's and 80's then you may have noticed that now most public restrooms are much more graffiti free (except for maybe dive clubs where that is the ambiance). My theory is that is because everyone has the…

Just reading this week’s category made me draw in my breath and utter “Oh dear lord!”

Ah while I lived in Boston I met a woman who lived on the opposite end of the orange line from me. After a delightful first date I needed to use the bathroom but didn’t want to ask to re-enter her apartment so I figured I’d use the orange line station bathroom...how bad could it be? Hahahaha. I entered the women’s…

I have two public restroom stories - one horrifying, one gross.

That seems disturbingly accurate.

Several years ago, I traveled to a second-world country with my then GF (now wife). We visited a little city up in the northern part of the country and wound up at a cool little posada (we passed on the first place because of the suscipious-looking black stuff growing on the walls).

Nothing to add BUT this always sends my husband and I into hysterics.

I was at a burrito place with my husband and daughter, who was small enough she couldn’t go to the bathroom by herself. I always check toilet contents, seats, and paper before I sit down because people are gross.

My mom (and sometimes my dad, sometimes my mom’s friend, depending if dad got time off), used to go to Alabama (the beach part, jokingly named the Redneck Riviera. It is nice though, a lot of weekly and monthly beach house rentals). Some of the bathrooms on the way were so sketchy! When I was little I would have to…

I went to a music festival a few years ago (remember those?) and was enjoying my time in the indoor venue, which was actually pretty nice. It was a metal festival and the music was extraordinarily loud, so most of us were wearing earplugs. I went to use the men’s room—which had an honest to goodness attendant! One…

It was a few years ago. I was at JFK airport, and I had just come back from Greece with my boyfriend. It was a lovely trip and I was sad to be back in NYC. We had just made it through customs and were waiting to pick up our baggage at the carousel. I had to pee after the long flight, so I went to the restroom, while…

I don’t know what this references, but I have asked myself this same question a number of times. 

Fly paper. A bucket. A hose connected to the faucet. An empty toilet - as in no water in it. Those were the total contents of the bathroom. Said contents had been there longer than I’d been alive.

I used to work retail. For some reason our woman’s bathroom was always terrible. One day as I was walking into a stall I almost stepped in shit. It wasn’t a neat little turd either, it was a massive pound of diarrhea in a horrific pile on the floor. It was only about two feet from the toilet. What happened that the…

I’m probably the reason for at least a handful of other people’s stories. Young Mr. Underhill was kind of a dingus.

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