I like when toilet paper hangs
 

I dont know about you guys but i absolutely like it when i use a public restroom and the toilet paper hangs from the despenser. It assures me that there is at least 3 or four squares for me to use. And i can avoid having to squeeze two fingers and a thumb to try and pinch my way to getting some to fall out holder. I thought that I would just share this with you all and any comments are appreciated.

I completely understand. I hate "taking the chance" when I'm in a hurry!

isnt this more of a "random" thread kind of post?


sidenote: my favorite stall at work is constantly out of paper. someone convienently left a box of kleenex for backup. i appreciate that, random co-worker!

wierd topic but whatever, i'll bite. yeah, it is nice to know that there is toilet paper; however, i can get so grossed out by public restrooms (even if the restroom is spotless, i hate the thought that tons of people have been in there). if i see toilet paper hanging, i'll take off at least a layer of tissue from the roll, before i get to what i actually want to use. i know it is odd, but it gives me some sort of peace of mind.

I'm with you on this one.

When I first read the title, I thought it was going to be a survey of whether you like your TP to hang over or under the roll....

Over or Under
 

and the answer is - OVER. OVer the roll. Are you listening, hubby??

see that's always my thought, especially in a public restroom.

Hey, I'm happy when mine even takes the time to change the roll...and we have the kind that's just a hook, it's not like you even have to mess with that spring-loaded deal. You just nudge the used roll off, it falls in the trash below and you slide the new one on. It's not magic.

TP Fairy
 

C'mon, AlphaFrog - you know all little boys are told that it IS magic. That the toilet paper fairy will come when no one is around, and replace the roll. It's maaaaaaaaggggggic . . .

That is exactly why I remove layer of toilet paper from the roll before use. Gross.

you think thats bad? mines wont let me keep an extra roll in the bathroom! i usually have one under our sink or in the magazine basket, and it always winds up back in the hall closet on the top shelf...i will never understand the logic in that. i do enjoy when he runs out and asks me to get him a new roll. i usually say no.:cool:

That's the first lesson in potty training my little boy is going to learn. My daughter actually learned even before she started training (you know that stage, where they're facinated with the potty...especially the flushing part, but aren't quite ready to use it...) where the extra TP was.

And one thing that always impressed me about my ex boyfriend...he lived in a house with his brother and his dad, and that toilet seat was ALWAYS down. 3 men, no women, toilet seat down. Amen.

Who started this potty talk anyway?:cool:

May I recommend that be the SECOND thing he learns? Putting the seat UP should be the first. My son used to "forget" to put the seat up. My husband used to find it funny when I would scream from the bathroom when I would discover the mess (usually becuase I would sit in it). Anyway, then my husband got his when he discovered that the toilet was not properly sealed around the base, and the extra pee that ran down the sides was actually getting into the subfloor- which not only gave the bathroom a wonderful aroma that you couldn't get rid of, but it caused damage to the subfloor that had to be ripped out and replaced. He doesn't find it so funny anymore.

Ewwww gross
 

I agree. I won't use public restrooms at all, for this very reason. I always use the bathroom before I leave home. I avoid public restrooms at all cost. The only time I didn't have much of a choice was at an amusement park. Those restrooms are really really gross, but I don't think anyone has a choice with all the water and pop that's consumed at an amusement park. :o:p

OK this is where the thread gets TMI
 

that is the WORST feeling in the world!

and that happens more often than you think - someone's home bathroom can smell like urine and still be clean because of years of urine in the subfloor. replace the wax ring underneath and you're good!

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Hahahahahaha. OMG this is SO gross but halarious.:D

Aim is important . . .
 

And that is also why the SECOND thing to teach your little boy is HOW TO AIM. (First is lift the lid, third is how to replace the toilet paper).

I think 3rd should be putting the seat back DOWN. My boyfriend grew up as the oldest of three boys. They don't put the seat down in their house! I can't handle it! And he comes to my apartment and leaves the seat up! :eek: (Fourth can be the TP replacement.)
Although, how many boys don't use TP unless they have to sit anyway...

Yeah. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

I absolutely hate it when the TP is hanging down so low that it's touching the floor. If that's the case, then I'll reach my hand way up inside the dispenser and tear it off as far up as I can reach and leave the floor-trailing paper right there where it falls. Sorry if that's rude, but whatever, any place with a public restroom should have a janitor who wears gloves and carries a broom and dustpan.

You should buy one of those decorative canisters where you can fit 3 extra rolls in. It VERY MUCH comes in handy.

Definitely ICE
 

Using a public restroom is a definite In case of an emergency for me. so when i run in and slam the door to 'relieve' myself and see no paper, or all thats left is whatever is glued to the roll, i am stranded.... If no one is there when i yell 'help' I'll go into the next stall....
But, really, never ever use, the hanging paper. always continue pulling until you are sure that whatever you use, hasnt already been 'brushed' by someone else's hand. I just feel that seeing 'some' paper is better than seeing none at all.

hhahaha, true

some paper is better than none at all

Okay TP hangs OVER not under. Under makes zero sense. Where are you supposed to see it to tear it off if it hangs under?

And people...can we please flush toilets after we're done in public restrooms. And not pee on the seat? Two simple concepts. What the hell are these people doing at home?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 

lol:D

I STILL do not understand how pee ends up on a wall in a woman's restroom. The physics do not compute. (And I didn't see any little kids go in there that day)

I'm so baffled. Who is doing this stuff? Is it guys sneaking in? What the hell is going on? Damn toilet pixies, messing up restrooms.
Could they at least write good graffiti or something?

I swear, I worked the theater that whole evening. It's not a megaplex; that portion of the theater has only two screens and me behind the concession booth. There was no time for a boy to sneak in there! I would have seen him! There wasn't even like a young kid who went in with his mom.

Also baffling, though I didn't deal with this one personally. Pooping on the floor next to the toilet. Again, how do you miss. Are you straddling the seat with one foot in the bowl? Are you somehow facing the wrong direction completely? I have no idea. I know you were close, but close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades... definitely not defecation.

Also, if you poop on the floor... do the world a favor and don't make the minimum wage worker clean it up. I don't care how you clean it up, just do it and then wash your hands.. a lot. Luckily this happened at a zoo where they just so happen to have plenty of shovels designated for that sort of purpose. But still... ewwwww.

Okay, this made me laugh so hard, that my boss just came in to check if I was okay.

Don't ask me how I know this - it is one of those weird facts I picked up somewhere - but apparently some women "hover" - thus leading to pee where it shouldn't be. Can't explain the poop.
Also, sometimes when the toilet flushes water spray ends up on the seat. It's not pee, but looks like it. I hate that. I hate public restrooms, period. And I hate scary U.K. restrooms even worse.

what do you mean "hover?" like to squat? because unless there are toilet seat covers (which get laid down two at a time for me and can make or break a bathroom visit), it will be a cold day in hayle before my azz hits the porcelain (well, the plastic).

other PB deal-breakers: foul odor (clearly) cold water in the faucet, hand dryers vs. paper towels, stall doors that dont shut all the way, and most of all, a WET FLOOR!

Hell, I've hovered before when a bathroom seems particularly disturbing, but I didn't pee on the wall...

Do you mean the ones where you pay and then go inside a giant concrete thing?

I too have refused to have skin hit the seat when it was disgusting - but I didn't, um, leave a mess.
The scary U.K. bathrooms are the circa 1950 public ones. Yikes! And what is with the wax paper for toilet paper? The first time I pulled out a square of waxed paper from the toilet paper dispenser I was flumoxed. I want to wipe, not wrap a sandwich! My U.K. friend says that's better than the John Wayne paper - rough as hell and doesn't take crap off anyone!

This reminds me of when I was little, my Mom would send my Grandparents back in Germany care packages, and she always padded the boxes with rolls of toilet paper and paper towels since the TP that was available (and affordable) was, as you said, John Wayne paper.

As for all public restrooms, does anyone else use a papertowel or a bit of TP to help open the door? I've heard that the doors are actually dirtier than the toilets themselves (from all those wonderful people who don't wash when they are done).

I almost lost my life to the raisin that got stuck in my throat...on account of laughing at the bolded statement.

I am all about the 'hover'. Sometimes I forget that my bathroom at home is MY bathroom at MY home that I clean and I hover there too. Lol. However, I hover with great skill. No sprinkle when I tinkle, or I'll be neat and wipe the seat.

Me, too. I'm an underling m'self.

Anyway, I always squat and if, for any reason at all I accidentally touch something, I go into convulsions until I can get to a shower. I also have no clue how poop ends up on the floor, but it happens all the time where I work. :mad:

I'd just like to say that anytime I can make people laugh loud enough that others think they're crazy, and/or nearly choke to death, it's a good thread. That goes x2 when it's a poop thread.

I thought it was the end for this thread but then...
 

Today, I HAD to use the public restroom, i take a two hour public transportation ride home,:mad: so i had no other choice. So of course the first thing i look for is some paper in the holder, none was there. (This is a single stall bathroom.) I didnt have to look far, the maintence people put a nice roll of domestic tissue (the kind you use in your private home), on a make shift toilet paper holder. And should you run out of that, there were two other random rolls, sitting on the diaper changing station. :eek:This made me feel extremely uncomfortable. thinking about all the people before me, grabbing and feeling all up on the toilet paper before i got the chance too. what a day!:)