The general decline in standards today

[LoveMyHats2]

Part of my first job involved cleaning the restrooms at our family's Texaco station. At the time, Texaco ran a program called "Registered Rest Rooms," in which inspectors from the company would visit stations specifically to look over the condition of the facilities. When I started the job it was made very clear to me that in twenty-five years of doing business we'd never flunked an inspection. And that record wasn't about to be broken.

Most oil companies operated similar inspection programs, but by the end of the seventies they were gone. Guess with times being as tight as they were then, and oil companies making so little money, they had to do away with such frivolous frills as ensuring decent facilities for their customers.

You know, I recall those signs and the Texaco gas station was an important part of my childhood. Long story short, when I was 3 I got myself lost, the fellows at the Texaco knew my Father as he had his new cars serviced (gas, oil changes) and due to their always making comments about how they liked his cars,(new convertible buick roadmasters, caddys) I knew by going to the gas station they would get me home safe, and they did. Also, Texaco sold items for us youngsters (fire engines that hooked to a water hose, hats, hula hoops) and I will always remember that.

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

The beginning of any decline starts with no toilet paper in a public bathroom. What cracks me up is the little girls room being in worse condition than the mens. Not that I know personally.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I once fished a diaper out of our ladies' room toilet.

A *cloth* diaper.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

The beginning of any decline starts with no toilet paper in a public bathroom. What cracks me up is the little girls room being in worse condition than the mens. Not that I know personally.

I learned that one the hard way, I always have a "partial roll of necessity paper" in my car and can place it into my pocket just in case.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I learned that one the hard way, I always have a "partial roll of necessity paper" in my car and can place it into my pocket just in case.

MRE's come with TP in wrapped, folded squares. I used keep some in my glove box!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

The beginning of any decline starts with no toilet paper in a public bathroom. What cracks me up is the little girls room being in worse condition than the mens. Not that I know personally.

I've been in restaurants with no paper towels in the bathroom. How are the employees washing and drying their hands???

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I once fished a diaper out of our ladies' room toilet.

A *cloth* diaper.

hahahaah ugh

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

That technique doesn't work as well walking into a fine resturant or shopping mall. That is, actually having a WHOLE roll of toilet paper in hand vs. partial in the pocket. Then you have to determine how much will be enough. Things could get sketchy.

 

[sheeplady]

You can point all you want, just point me in the direction of the dinner table when it's meal time!

Yum, lamb. (Why is there no icon that shows a little happy face drooling??!!?)

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

I've been in restaurants with no paper towels in the bathroom. How are the employees washing and drying their hands???

I've worked in the food service industry, and the less you know the more you'll enjoy your food.

 

[Pompidou]

I've been in restaurants with no paper towels in the bathroom. How are the employees washing and drying their hands???

From what I've been told, some places don't stock women's restrooms with paper towels because of the propensity to use them to create sanitary seat barriers that more often than not clog the toilet. I had a job at Dunkin Donuts back in 97 and was told not to put any paper towels in the women's room for that reason.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've been in restaurants with no paper towels in the bathroom. How are the employees washing and drying their hands???

That's why they wear aprons.

 

[sheeplady]

I think women's rooms are worse than the few times I've seen a men's room.

The absolutely worst bathroom experiences I have had is where someone decided to make use of the floor (not the toilet or near said toilet, but right in the middle of the floor). I have seen this in a fitting room and two public bathrooms in the past several years.

When I discussed these experiences with my husband, he stated that he has NEVER seen that in a men's room.

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

Maybe they couldn't get off the phone soon enough. Sometimes texting is better.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The very worst people for making a ruin of a public restroom aren't the slobs and yokels. They're the upscale types -- it was true at the gas station in the '70s and it's true at the theatre where I work now. The higher-class the audience, the more of a mess they leave behind -- because, I guess, they're used to having someone to clean up after them so they just don't care.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

What gets me is when somebody backs up the toilet in a public restroom. I'll bet they would never do that at home.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

What gets me is when somebody backs up the toilet in a public restroom. I'll bet they would never do that at home.

Or bring a newspaper in with them.

 

[C-dot]

The very worst people for making a ruin of a public restroom aren't the slobs and yokels. They're the upscale types -- it was true at the gas station in the '70s and it's true at the theatre where I work now. The higher-class the audience, the more of a mess they leave behind -- because, I guess, they're used to having someone to clean up after them so they just don't care.

Isn't that strange? My favourite aunt used to work at the upscale food merchant David Wood, and she had the most horrifying experience (the WALL). I won't tell the rest here for many reasons, but mostly because we all have imaginations, and like to keep our meals down.

On the other end of the spectrum: The Toronto subways are a favourite place for the local addiction and mental health patients to relieve themselves, on both the trains and the tunnels. Everyone I know who has traveled the TTC has had a similar experience.

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

Someone practiced writing their name in cursive on the bathroom walls?

 

[C-dot]

Someone practiced writing their name in cursive on the bathroom walls?

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