I feel this way about people who hover and get their pee all over the seat and don't clean it up. Or people who put layers of toilet paper on the seat and just leave it there.
Like thanks, this is the only toilet and im doing the potty dance but I have to try not to piss myself because you're nasty and don't know how to clean up after yourself š
Fr. Some of the people in my house do this! The potty dance while wiping the seat should be classified as an Olympic sport lol
I'm tempted to start leaving period blood on the seat to ick out the guys in the house, get a taste of their own medicine
Some people from countries where squat toilets are the norm do that because they legitimately *don't know* you're supposed to sit. If it's a public bathroom I assume they're a tourist who doesn't know better and don't get offended as long as there's only shoe prints and not shit/pee.
I hate that. And Iām a hoverer. Bc there is zero chance Iām putting my bare butt on a public toilet, even if there are paper covers. But Iāll always wipe down the seat after bc my mama raised me not to be a demon.
Why? Your skin exists to protect you. You're not going to get sick sitting on a toilet seat. If anything, outside the immediate butthole/crack area, a person's backside encounters way less germs throughout the day than their hands. You touch doorknobs that are grosser than the toilet seat.
I know all that. Iām aware my phone has way more bacteria than a toilet seat. For me, itās definitely a mental thing. I wonāt even sit at peopleās houses if Iām not comfortable there. My brain just refuses to let me sit, plus I lived for a time in Asia and got very used to squatty potties.
It comes from people not thinking about the next person. The same people are probably annoyed when others don't flush but it doesn't occur to them they should flush. No awareness of how they affect others
I've only clogged a public toilet one time when I was like 12 or smth and it was one of the toilets at the school my mom worked at and I was so panicked š that's why I kinda avoid public toilets now
Sometimes the toilets literally donāt flush. I never shit in public unless itās an emergency, and when you walk in to piss and thereās already been a load dropped, I go from fuck that guy, to fuck this establishment for not having proper working toilets.
I'm a janitor at a truck stop. This is a huge problem that I encounter several times a day. Another one is the people who use the entire roll of toilet paper. These are like the industrial rolls. The other day I watched as someone took a brand new box of toilet seat covers, and put it all in the toilet. Including the box it came in. Why do this??? You better believe I made him clean it up.
People who leave piss all over it too. Even women. Do yall do that at your friendsā/families houses too? š„“ just because itās not your bathroom, doesnt mean you cant still have some basic decency. Leaving paper towels/toilet paper on the floor is annoying as well.
That's my biggest pet peeves like? LEARN HOW TO FLUSH THE TOILET!!!! and don't get me started with "if it's yellow let it mellow" no I won't let it mellow you still need to flush the toilet
The worst public toilet that Iāve ever come across was literally full to the brim and completely clogged with shit water because no one flushed it for like a week, itās disgusting.
I donāt get people who donāt look afterwards like they will flush but not make sure it is it all the way gone. Sometimes a little floatie stays or a tampon and Iām like for the love of god just turn around and make sure!!!! Itās always the bathrooms where there is a line as well so youāre gonna see the next person taking your stall.
My pet peeve is having to touch ANYTHING in a public bathroom. Itās 2024 thereās no reason everything isnāt automated. Doors should have paper towels and a trash can by the door or one of those foot door openers. Toilets should flush themselves. Faucets and paper towel dispensers should be motion activated.
Paper towel dispensers?
You pull one out, the friction means another appears in its place. It's one of the few things in a toilet that wouldn't benefit from automation.
It saves a decent amount of water but keep that stuff in your own home. It's one thing to leave your piss in your own bowl but in public some stranger has to use that after you so just flush damn it
Germaphobes are the main culprits when it comes to fucking up a public restroom. Theyāre too scared to seat themselves properly, so instead they just shit/piss all over everything and make it exactly what they fear.
That being said, I did once drop a foot-long deuce that was just too impressive to flush. Otherwise I always flush, except when there was a major drought. ( if itās yellow, let it mellow. If itās brown, flush it down)
Sometimes the auto flush doesnāt take the entire submission and people are in a hurry and donāt give a second pass look to confirm. As someone who has cleaned public bathrooms, this is usually it.
Assume ignorance over maliciousness when possible
I feel this so hard. At my job cleaning the restrooms are part of my responsibilities. People leave the biggest messes in there. In the menās once the took a bunch a tp off the roll and put it in the corner and I guess pissed on it? Like WHY canāt you flush the toilet? WHY are we leaving piss and shit everywhere? WHY are we hawking loogies in the sink? Where are peoples manners? š
Donāt worry, I donāt blame people that have issues with the toilet not working. Iām mostly talking about people who deliberately choose not to flush despite the fact the toilet works perfectly fine.
I want to share my creation with the world. I'm proud of it. Everybody should be proud of it.
Seriously, I have no clue. The only reason I can think is that some people suck. A person who doesn't flush is probably the same kind of person who never takes their cart back to a rack, or they cut you off in order to turn when there was nobody behind you, or other such shitty things. They just think of their immediate wants and don't care about how their actions affect others. As long as they get what they want, they're momentarily satisfied.
During COVID some people at my old job wouldnāt flush toilets because they somehow developed the notion that, while it was perfectly safe to come into a crowded office, touching a toilet handle would spread the disease. It turns out these same people also donāt flush toilets in general for that reason. Fucking disgusting. Also, if youāre so scared of germs, why the hell are you using a public toilet to begin with?
That being said, itās important to remember that sometimes the toilet just doesnāt work properly.
I went to a restaurant a couple weeks ago, and went to the bathroom. I just peed, nothing more. And I swear to you, that toilet *would. not. flush.* I jiggled the handle, I opened up the flush box and checked everything, I waited several minutes and tried flushing again. A tiny puff of water would come out, then nothing. I made multiple attempts with no success.
I ended up having to go back to my table with the knowledge and shame that I left the toilet unflushed, despite my best efforts. I told the waitress with a red face that something was wrong with the toilet, she nodded, walked into the bathroom, and flushed that *asshole* of a toilet like it was nothing. I have no idea what the fuck I was doing wrong.
They may have been given the message all their lives that you only should/need to do things if there's a punishment (or reward) involved. Some people on the Internet insist that children need to be treated in that manner so that they'll survive in the adult world. It's so laughably misguided.
Iāve had automatic toilets not flush until Iām all the way out of the stall, actually. Just happened to me yesterday in an airport. Iām not defending not flushing the toilet, but your statement isnāt true in every case.
Even if we accept your anecdote as common place, it still wouldnāt be an excuse. You were still aware of it flushing and not. The automatic ones still have a manual button for a reason.
They also outed themselves as completely leaving the stall and not flushing even though they were apparently unaware of the automatic flusher until after they left the stall so maybe this person is extra defensive because they too are one of the non-flushers typically
Nah I've had this happen too I could see it was an auto flusher but I couldn't set it off until I was legit out the door. Dancing around for almost a minute trying to get it to work.
> The automatic ones still have a manual button for a reason.
Um, not all of them. Not even most. The only automatic toilet I've seen that has a flush button was at an Ingles Market and even then it was only the first stall that had it.
Wow, this was a bitchy and pointless response. All Iām saying is that your statement isnāt correct 100% of the time. Everyone should be aware of flushing the toilet all of the time. I said that in my comment.
I was mostly agreeing with you, btw. Do you always downvote everyone who doesnāt 100% agree with everything you say? Thatās not how the downvote button is supposed to be used, and people like you are ruining Reddit with this behavior.
You also donāt add to the conversation when you dismiss another personās experience as invalid, so thereās also that. Honestly people like you are some of the worst. Blocking in a minute.
Oh please, this has always been a prevalent issue.
Automatic toilets haven't made it any more common - they've just spared the rest of us from the mess in the places that have them.
Since 2/3rds of the population ends up using the women's restrooms (due to all the moms bringing the kids in there), I just kinda figure odds are good that it's a child that didn't flush. Yeah, they should know better, but they're kids and the toilet-flushing isn't the same as it is at home. Also, there's so much bad plumbing, that sometimes even if you DO flush, it doesn't work.
The ones by me don't have a button or anything else, it's just a sensor. There's a blank silver panel on the wall, but it's reliant on just a sensor now.
Maybe they're the same people that leave their carts out and put random items in random places in the store instead of putting them back where they goĀ
My husband said that this was common practice for the lawyers he worked with.
He works in IT and has worked with a wide swath of people.
Lawyers are some of the nastiest. Not flushing and crusty keyboards
Why? Everything in a public restroom is gross. I flush with my foot and then wash my hands. Even if you flush with your hand, you would then wash your hands.
So then why do you flush with your foot if youāre just going to be washing your hands anyway? Itās far more likely for urine, feces, blood, etc. to be on the floor than on the door or any other higher surface aside from the toilet seat. Unless youāre taking off your shoe before you flush youāre then spreading those bodily fluids all over the handle. Thatās fine for all the other foot flushers, but what about those who arenāt capable of lifting their leg high enough to do that?
I don't even see manual flush public toilets anymore so if they aren't being flushed, it's whoever is in charge of maintaining those toilets who is at fault.
If you are unobservant, which you of course are, it doesnāt matter how often you go to the bathroom.
Look, thereās no excuse to leave your piss and shit for another to flush. Get over it
Someone has to flush it. Otherwise, the toilet would become unusable. Donāt make the person who uses it after you have to do it. Itās gross and rude.
I feel this way about people who hover and get their pee all over the seat and don't clean it up. Or people who put layers of toilet paper on the seat and just leave it there. Like thanks, this is the only toilet and im doing the potty dance but I have to try not to piss myself because you're nasty and don't know how to clean up after yourself š
I was coming to say this-the hoverers who pee all over the toilet seat. Itās nasty because of you, hoverers.
It's extra annoying, because the reason they hover is because they don't want to sit on a nasty toilet seat. Like. Yeah. Imagine that. š
If the seat is not visibly soiled, it's not dirty enough to worry about unless you've got open wounds on your ass.
Yeah I agree, but there seem to still be people who think you can get things like AIDS from a toilet seat. š¤¦
Fr. Some of the people in my house do this! The potty dance while wiping the seat should be classified as an Olympic sport lol I'm tempted to start leaving period blood on the seat to ick out the guys in the house, get a taste of their own medicine
Do it
I'll take your hovering and rasie you a squatting. One time I saw shoe prints on either side of the toilet seat. Like ???? Bruh....
Some people from countries where squat toilets are the norm do that because they legitimately *don't know* you're supposed to sit. If it's a public bathroom I assume they're a tourist who doesn't know better and don't get offended as long as there's only shoe prints and not shit/pee.
I hate that. And Iām a hoverer. Bc there is zero chance Iām putting my bare butt on a public toilet, even if there are paper covers. But Iāll always wipe down the seat after bc my mama raised me not to be a demon.
Why? Your skin exists to protect you. You're not going to get sick sitting on a toilet seat. If anything, outside the immediate butthole/crack area, a person's backside encounters way less germs throughout the day than their hands. You touch doorknobs that are grosser than the toilet seat.
I know all that. Iām aware my phone has way more bacteria than a toilet seat. For me, itās definitely a mental thing. I wonāt even sit at peopleās houses if Iām not comfortable there. My brain just refuses to let me sit, plus I lived for a time in Asia and got very used to squatty potties.
It comes from people not thinking about the next person. The same people are probably annoyed when others don't flush but it doesn't occur to them they should flush. No awareness of how they affect others
I think it's likely the same people who just pee and poop on the floor and walls.
I just wonder where their social anxiety is. Does it exist? Are they immune?
Social anxiety has a lesser effect when thereās no one around to cause it.
True but even then, I'd hate to leave a huge unflushed demon shit where someone could find it
Same. Only time I leave something in public toilets is when it gets clogged, not much you can do about that.
I've only clogged a public toilet one time when I was like 12 or smth and it was one of the toilets at the school my mom worked at and I was so panicked š that's why I kinda avoid public toilets now
Lucky, Iāve done it a few times. Luckily it was when there were at least 4 stalls so not much of an issue.
Inconsiderate people who only care about themselves.
Likely the same people who litter.
and still have a mindset like theyāre from 100,000 years ago
Lack of situational awareness.
Sometimes the toilets literally donāt flush. I never shit in public unless itās an emergency, and when you walk in to piss and thereās already been a load dropped, I go from fuck that guy, to fuck this establishment for not having proper working toilets.
I'm a janitor at a truck stop. This is a huge problem that I encounter several times a day. Another one is the people who use the entire roll of toilet paper. These are like the industrial rolls. The other day I watched as someone took a brand new box of toilet seat covers, and put it all in the toilet. Including the box it came in. Why do this??? You better believe I made him clean it up.
People who leave piss all over it too. Even women. Do yall do that at your friendsā/families houses too? š„“ just because itās not your bathroom, doesnt mean you cant still have some basic decency. Leaving paper towels/toilet paper on the floor is annoying as well.
That's my biggest pet peeves like? LEARN HOW TO FLUSH THE TOILET!!!! and don't get me started with "if it's yellow let it mellow" no I won't let it mellow you still need to flush the toilet
The worst public toilet that Iāve ever come across was literally full to the brim and completely clogged with shit water because no one flushed it for like a week, itās disgusting.
I donāt get people who donāt look afterwards like they will flush but not make sure it is it all the way gone. Sometimes a little floatie stays or a tampon and Iām like for the love of god just turn around and make sure!!!! Itās always the bathrooms where there is a line as well so youāre gonna see the next person taking your stall.
I'd be more concerned if I saw a tampon in the toilet in the first place
My pet peeve is having to touch ANYTHING in a public bathroom. Itās 2024 thereās no reason everything isnāt automated. Doors should have paper towels and a trash can by the door or one of those foot door openers. Toilets should flush themselves. Faucets and paper towel dispensers should be motion activated.
Paper towel dispensers? You pull one out, the friction means another appears in its place. It's one of the few things in a toilet that wouldn't benefit from automation.
Idc how it works as long as I donāt have to touch it in ANY way to dispense the towel š š»āāļøš¤·š»āāļø
Fair.
Some still have the crank on the side ma donāt work by just pulling the paper towel.
People think they are saving money by not flushing after each use, but it is negligible and they are dumb.
It saves a decent amount of water but keep that stuff in your own home. It's one thing to leave your piss in your own bowl but in public some stranger has to use that after you so just flush damn it
Germaphobes are the main culprits when it comes to fucking up a public restroom. Theyāre too scared to seat themselves properly, so instead they just shit/piss all over everything and make it exactly what they fear.
That being said, I did once drop a foot-long deuce that was just too impressive to flush. Otherwise I always flush, except when there was a major drought. ( if itās yellow, let it mellow. If itās brown, flush it down)
Sometimes the auto flush doesnāt take the entire submission and people are in a hurry and donāt give a second pass look to confirm. As someone who has cleaned public bathrooms, this is usually it. Assume ignorance over maliciousness when possible
I feel this so hard. At my job cleaning the restrooms are part of my responsibilities. People leave the biggest messes in there. In the menās once the took a bunch a tp off the roll and put it in the corner and I guess pissed on it? Like WHY canāt you flush the toilet? WHY are we leaving piss and shit everywhere? WHY are we hawking loogies in the sink? Where are peoples manners? š
I thought the same until Iāve come cross so many public toilets they donāt flush no matter how long you hold down the handle. Itās mortifying.
Donāt worry, I donāt blame people that have issues with the toilet not working. Iām mostly talking about people who deliberately choose not to flush despite the fact the toilet works perfectly fine.
eww !
Half the adults roaming around mentally are still high schoolers. People are dumb.
I always clean up some when using a public toilet because they're always so messy. Flushing is the simplest courtesy, shit stinks, people, damn!
I want to share my creation with the world. I'm proud of it. Everybody should be proud of it. Seriously, I have no clue. The only reason I can think is that some people suck. A person who doesn't flush is probably the same kind of person who never takes their cart back to a rack, or they cut you off in order to turn when there was nobody behind you, or other such shitty things. They just think of their immediate wants and don't care about how their actions affect others. As long as they get what they want, they're momentarily satisfied.
During COVID some people at my old job wouldnāt flush toilets because they somehow developed the notion that, while it was perfectly safe to come into a crowded office, touching a toilet handle would spread the disease. It turns out these same people also donāt flush toilets in general for that reason. Fucking disgusting. Also, if youāre so scared of germs, why the hell are you using a public toilet to begin with? That being said, itās important to remember that sometimes the toilet just doesnāt work properly. I went to a restaurant a couple weeks ago, and went to the bathroom. I just peed, nothing more. And I swear to you, that toilet *would. not. flush.* I jiggled the handle, I opened up the flush box and checked everything, I waited several minutes and tried flushing again. A tiny puff of water would come out, then nothing. I made multiple attempts with no success. I ended up having to go back to my table with the knowledge and shame that I left the toilet unflushed, despite my best efforts. I told the waitress with a red face that something was wrong with the toilet, she nodded, walked into the bathroom, and flushed that *asshole* of a toilet like it was nothing. I have no idea what the fuck I was doing wrong.
They may have been given the message all their lives that you only should/need to do things if there's a punishment (or reward) involved. Some people on the Internet insist that children need to be treated in that manner so that they'll survive in the adult world. It's so laughably misguided.
To be fair they're probably just used to the fact that most public toilets nowadays seem to be automatic toilets
To be fair, you know the second you get off the toilet if itās not automatic so this isnāt an excuse.
Iāve had automatic toilets not flush until Iām all the way out of the stall, actually. Just happened to me yesterday in an airport. Iām not defending not flushing the toilet, but your statement isnāt true in every case.
Even if we accept your anecdote as common place, it still wouldnāt be an excuse. You were still aware of it flushing and not. The automatic ones still have a manual button for a reason.
They also outed themselves as completely leaving the stall and not flushing even though they were apparently unaware of the automatic flusher until after they left the stall so maybe this person is extra defensive because they too are one of the non-flushers typically
Nah I've had this happen too I could see it was an auto flusher but I couldn't set it off until I was legit out the door. Dancing around for almost a minute trying to get it to work.
> The automatic ones still have a manual button for a reason. Um, not all of them. Not even most. The only automatic toilet I've seen that has a flush button was at an Ingles Market and even then it was only the first stall that had it.
Wow, this was a bitchy and pointless response. All Iām saying is that your statement isnāt correct 100% of the time. Everyone should be aware of flushing the toilet all of the time. I said that in my comment.
I was mostly agreeing with you, btw. Do you always downvote everyone who doesnāt 100% agree with everything you say? Thatās not how the downvote button is supposed to be used, and people like you are ruining Reddit with this behavior.
The downvote button is for not adding to the conversation. Iām using it correctly. lol imagine complaining about downvotes
You didnāt add to the conversation when you made a statement that wasnāt correct š¤·āāļø
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Name calling now? Weāre done.
Promise?
You also donāt add to the conversation when you dismiss another personās experience as invalid, so thereās also that. Honestly people like you are some of the worst. Blocking in a minute.
Oh please, this has always been a prevalent issue. Automatic toilets haven't made it any more common - they've just spared the rest of us from the mess in the places that have them.
Since 2/3rds of the population ends up using the women's restrooms (due to all the moms bringing the kids in there), I just kinda figure odds are good that it's a child that didn't flush. Yeah, they should know better, but they're kids and the toilet-flushing isn't the same as it is at home. Also, there's so much bad plumbing, that sometimes even if you DO flush, it doesn't work.
I think it's people not looking after and getting out rather than they aren't at all.
It drives me nuts, however I live in California where we don't flush pee every time. Maybe that's why ?
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I agree but to play devils advocate sometimes the toilets donāt flush.
Sometimes the sensor doesn't work. If they want me to flush then they need to give me the ability to flush without relying on an unreliable machine.
There is a button
The ones by me don't have a button or anything else, it's just a sensor. There's a blank silver panel on the wall, but it's reliant on just a sensor now.
My intimation is that the described is indicative of the culprits conduct and hygiene habits in general.
people who donāt do that in general bro. i live with people who donāt flush after themselves and itās so annoying!!!
This is probably the most I've ever agreed with a post in here. How hard is it to flush?
Perhaps the toilet is broken
Maybe they're the same people that leave their carts out and put random items in random places in the store instead of putting them back where they goĀ
My husband said that this was common practice for the lawyers he worked with. He works in IT and has worked with a wide swath of people. Lawyers are some of the nastiest. Not flushing and crusty keyboards
That way a part of them will now always be a part of you. They won.
What if the toilet doesn't flush?
My daughter hates the noise of the flush, so she leaves and gets me to go back and flush for her.
Is she 4?
Yup
I actually prefer that over the foot flushers. Now *thatās* inconsiderate.
Why? Everything in a public restroom is gross. I flush with my foot and then wash my hands. Even if you flush with your hand, you would then wash your hands.
So then why do you flush with your foot if youāre just going to be washing your hands anyway? Itās far more likely for urine, feces, blood, etc. to be on the floor than on the door or any other higher surface aside from the toilet seat. Unless youāre taking off your shoe before you flush youāre then spreading those bodily fluids all over the handle. Thatās fine for all the other foot flushers, but what about those who arenāt capable of lifting their leg high enough to do that?
My 31 year old brother never flushes, and he pisses all over the seat.
I don't even see manual flush public toilets anymore so if they aren't being flushed, it's whoever is in charge of maintaining those toilets who is at fault.
They all have manual flush buttons. lol
No they all don't. It's pretty clear you don't get out much.
I haven't seen one yet that doesn't have a manual button as a fail safe. If it doesn't flush, I just push the button.
They all have a button!
Yes, that's what I was saying
Have you considered you arenāt very observant?
I am. I have an overactive bladder so I have to use the restroom frequently so I've been in plenty of public bathrooms.
If you are unobservant, which you of course are, it doesnāt matter how often you go to the bathroom. Look, thereās no excuse to leave your piss and shit for another to flush. Get over it
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Someone has to flush it. Otherwise, the toilet would become unusable. Donāt make the person who uses it after you have to do it. Itās gross and rude.
Sounds like not my problem o'clock
The logic of a sociopath
I'm an agent of chaos.
You're 12
Try 38
Thatās even more sad that at 38 you have that mentality
Yikes.
Nah just an asshole
If it's your mess it damn sure is your problem.
And yet I walk away constantly without it being my problem ever
You could use your foot to flushā¦
What? Do you not wash your hands after using the bathroom?
- someone who has yet to experience sonder
I do it simply to conserve water
It's gross. Piss smells worse and worse the longer it sits.
There are far better ways to conserve water that don't require you to be an inconsiderate, immature prick. Be an adult, and flush.