Toilets

[sushi]

After working 6 days a week since the beginning of December, I finally took yesterday and today off. Of course, it snowed yesterday and I woke up to an electrical problem in my house. No power in the bathroom. Called a few electricians and couldn't find anyone to come until this morning.

About 11:30, I sat down to a Most Satisfying Bowel Movement™ that was quite ripe. You know it's bad when you can smell your own. Phone rings in the middle of it with an electrician who says he can squeeze me in as he just finished a job 10 minutes away.

He arrives and it still stinks. I tell him and offer a cup of coffee. He laughed and thanked me for my consideration. We had a cup of coffee and I showed him my iBook which he asked about as it was sitting on the table. When he wrote the bill up, he waived the "emergency response" fee of $45. Said the stink warning and Mac consulting were worth the 45 bucks.

He's definitely a keeper for future problems!

 

[CompUser]

No.. Montrose area in Houston.
The "gayborhood" as I've heard it referred to.


My favorite part of town.. so arty, yet semi gritty, with yuppie accents!


Yeah, I used to avoid public bathrooms doing that

THEN I HAD KIDNEY STONES.
WITH ONE KIDNEY.
OH EM GEE.
Pain, ow, ow, much the triste.

When you realize that doing that may help precipitate a stone you'll drink water like a bad mutha' (chorus: shut your mouth!).

Just scope out the clean ones.
The 2 minutes of disgusting is SO WORTH IT, considering a probable alternative is 3 hospital visits, $10K in bills, and OMG THE PAIN OF PASSING A STONE WITHOUT PAIN KILLERS (and then having to pick it out of the loo to give to the doctors.. who then tell you that they don't need it.)

Ok, I'm a water freak.. but I don't have stones anymore.
I was the youngest person they'd ever heard of having kidney stones.. I was 13 or 14 at the time, IIRC. Ouch, le pain, OMG.

Its not that I force myself no to, I just dont have to. I drink plenty of water too.

 

[Josh]

I absolutely hate it when that happens. I just shut up and sit still until he leaves usually, unless it takes particularly long!

Ditto.

But, the worst - and I mean ABSOLUTE WORST...is walking into an empty bathroom, thinking everything is ok, go to the stall, get ready to do your thing, begin sitting down, anticipating the cold porcelain, only to find it warm...*shutters*

 

[sushi]

Ditto.

But, the worst - and I mean ABSOLUTE WORST...is walking into an empty bathroom, thinking everything is ok, go to the stall, get ready to do your thing, begin sitting down, anticipating the cold porcelain, only to find it warm...*shutters*

Here in Japan, many toilet seats are heated, so they are always warm, even if someone has not been on them. Agree with you about the warm seat. It is a weird feeling to get over when using a bathroom here.

Also, they have false flushing sounds for women's toilets so they cannot hear themselves go. Not being a woman, I understand that women do not like their sounds to eminate from the stall. So the system projects a water flushing sound which saves water and covers up the sound of whatever the woman is doing at the time.

 

[skoker]

Heh, I have a story to top all others:

At my High school, we have a kid (collectively referred to as 'Cartman') who is infamous for taking 'large' *****. To make a long story short, Cartman took a huge dump one morning and by the afternoon there was a LINE (amacgenius, back me up here) of people going into the bathroom to take pictures of 'the largest turd ever' with their camera phones. I (sadly) had to stay after school that day and the custodians had to take a piece of scrap wood to chop in up to get it to flush. It was discusting.

 

[cslewis]

Anyone willing to go the bathroom in this public toilet in Zurich, Switzerland?

You can see out, but they can't see in.

Still, though...

 

[amacgenius]

(amacgenius, back me up here)

No can do, I was absent that day, and besides - cartman isn't even sure if it was his...

 

[Chubypig]

You can see out, but they can't see in.

That's what they tell you at least...

 

[katie ta achoo]

Anyone willing to go the bathroom in this public toilet in Zurich, Switzerland?

You can see out, but they can't see in.

Still, though...

Even though I know that they can't see in, I still think I'd have anxiety about it.

I remember when I was getting carted to the ER from school, I went to the bathroom with 8 EMS guys, the principal, vice principal, and nurse standing outside the door, it took me 10 minutes to do my business.

They asked if I was OK about 3 minutes in.
Did not help!

 

[skoker]

Anyone willing to go the bathroom in this public toilet in Zurich, Switzerland?

You can see out, but they can't see in.

Still, though...

Heh, I recall hearing that a couple was having sex in there and there were people pressing against the windows to get a look

 

[Applespider]

Anyone willing to go the bathroom in this public toilet in Zurich, Switzerland?

You can see out, but they can't see in.

Still, though...

I've been to a loo in a bar like that. It was just as well there was a queue so we could see that they turned opaque when the door was locked...

 

[whooleytoo]

What about the washlet toilet? They had these in at least one of the bathrooms at the Google campus....

That site has a "download" link, but I'm too afraid to touch it!