Public restroom survey

AlsDonkBoxSquat
AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
edited October 2 in Chit-Chat
You walk into the rest room, open the stall and see anything floating in the toilet (could be toilet paper that just didn't make it down or could be the person didn't flush at all), do you:

1. find another stall
2. flush then find another stall
3. flush and use
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  • kapeluza
    kapeluza Posts: 3,434 Member
    1
  • mea9
    mea9 Posts: 561 Member
    1. find another stall
  • CharNordie
    CharNordie Posts: 96 Member
    find another stall
  • dayzeerock
    dayzeerock Posts: 918 Member
    Honestly, that's a huge fear for me....no joke it causes me severe anxiety. Even if it's just toilet paper, I literally start shaking and panicking! I can NOT use that toilet, I don't even care if it's the only one.
  • alicollins74
    alicollins74 Posts: 335 Member
    #1: find another stall
  • stroken96
    stroken96 Posts: 436 Member
    1
  • HarlCarl
    HarlCarl Posts: 266 Member
    1

    Why would anyone leave it that way?
  • sarah_ep
    sarah_ep Posts: 580 Member
    1, sometimes 2, but never 3.

    No one wants a reminder that someone used the toilet before them.
  • NicoleLyn1818
    NicoleLyn1818 Posts: 110
    1. That's just gross.........and I don't usually sit on public toilets either. I hover lol.
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    I'm a guy, the world is my urinal.
  • SLambertAlaska
    SLambertAlaska Posts: 197 Member
    2. flush (w/my foot so I'm not leaning over it) and find another stall
  • mrmanmeat
    mrmanmeat Posts: 1,968 Member
    You walk into the rest room, open the stall and see anything floating in the toilet (could be toilet paper that just didn't make it down or could be the person didn't flush at all), do you:

    1. find another stall
    2. flush then find another stall
    3. flush and use

    3. Unless it's clearly clogged.

    I'm not a germaphobe and it's not that big of a deal.
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    1
  • HealthiHannah
    HealthiHannah Posts: 182 Member
    2 or 3... I flush public toilets with my foot so I don't have to bend over it, lol...

    Depending on what it was.... I will either use it after I flush it down or will flush and find another. But why leave it there to stink up the whole room and give everyone else a "nice surprise"? It bothers me that people don't flush in the first place!
  • Jill_newimprovedversion
    Jill_newimprovedversion Posts: 988 Member
    D) Flush and WAIT to see if it overflows...and IF it doesn't, I'll use it.



    Seriously, I do this for a living...if I got grossed out by toilets, I'd never get any work done.
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
    AAAAah cmon, flush and use. Now if it is going to invade my personal space, like I have to smell something that came out of another person, or clean the seat, I find another stall. I honestly cannot understand why people have to leave a mess in a public restroom. I mean really people.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    1
  • LaDiablesse
    LaDiablesse Posts: 862 Member
    Find another stall

    I only use public restrooms when I have no other alternative.
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    2. flush (w/my foot so I'm not leaning over it) and find another stall

    ^^^This. I also cannot leave papertowels on the floor of restrooms even if they don't belong to me. I'll get a clean one and pick up the rest and throw them away.
  • Jill_newimprovedversion
    Jill_newimprovedversion Posts: 988 Member
    But why leave it there to stink up the whole room and give everyone else a "nice surprise"? It bothers me that people don't flush in the first place!

    AMEN to that!
  • crazytxmom
    crazytxmom Posts: 166 Member
    3

    Flushed toilets don't grow on trees, y'know?
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
    and for those that hover, please clean up your residual... I also foot flush.
  • writtenINthestars
    writtenINthestars Posts: 1,933 Member
    AAAAah cmon, flush and use. Now if it is going to invade my personal space, like I have to smell something that came out of another person, or clean the seat, I find another stall. I honestly cannot understand why people have to leave a mess in a public restroom. I mean really people.

    This.
  • Lazyboy09
    Lazyboy09 Posts: 190 Member
    OMG, at work one time I opened the stall to find this huge log (really impressive, I'm not kidding) and no paper floating in the bowl. I chose option 1.
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    I've chosen all of those options at one time or another...the *kitten* gaskets (a.k.a. toilet seat covers) don't always go down on the first try. In those instances, I don't have any issue with flushing & using. If someone leaves a deposit, on the other hand, I'll flush & walk away or just walk away depending on what the deposit is.
  • janiebeth
    janiebeth Posts: 2,509 Member
    Really, really depends on what was left behind..

    If nothing nasty 3. .... but agree with the foot strategy

    If something I wish I hadn't seen, 2... no need to leave it for someone else ...
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
    Impressive
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I would flush it and use it. Honestly, why does you having to flush the toilet make it any more undesirable than if the person that had just used it, flushed it?

    Sure it's not optimal. in a perfect world, the toilet would be flushed, a seat cover would be in place and romantic music would be playing. But, hey, I just gotta take a dump, and I am going to expedite the process and get back to work.
  • jjbnfo
    jjbnfo Posts: 15
    3
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
    Sometimes flush then find another, sometimes just find another. Depends on the mess. If someone dropped a load and didn't flush, sorry, not my job. If it's just pee or toilet paper, I'll flush it with my foot and move on.
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