Saturday, August 17, 2013

Public restroom TP dispensers....

I am convinced that MAN designed public restrooms, especially women's, and then designed the toilet paper dispensers to place in them, as well as where to place them.

First of all, they are in the most inconvenient of places.  They are either up so high only a person at least 7 foot tall, with appropriate length arms is able to reach the roll, or down so low that a person must do contortions to reach the roll.  Then, also, they are so big and bulky (the bigger the better!), and so close to the toilet that a woman can't do the things she needs to do without coming away with bumps, scrapes, and bruises, especially certain times of a month.    

Now, some of this is the business's fault - they are the ones who choose what to put in there, but, c'mon.  Why, even in a huge store like WalMart or Kroger, do you need a roll of toilet paper as big around as a tractor tire?  I understand that you don't want people to steal single rolls of toilet paper, and I understand that you (a business) can't trust anyone any more, but is the cost of these tractor-tire toilet paper wheels really worth it?  When a person using the toilet has to use three times the amount of toilet paper because the toilet paper is so thin and so ~~ugh, papery~~that to make it anyway near soft enough, we must pull and pull and pull (and it break and break and break) to make a "soft" enough pad to wipe with?  The restrooms are NEVER clean, are NEVER well-stocked, even those with those handy-dandy little checklists on the backs of the doors.  They might have the little checkmarks on them, but someone is lying.   Checking should not be that bad of a job that no one wants to do it.  Why can it not be up to a MANAGER to make sure it is done? The cleaning is a whole nother story, of course, but the checking...

Now, about the toilet paper hanging of the end of the roll...
Ladies, how many of you have gone into a public restroom and sat there and cussed because you can't find the end of the toilet paper?  <Looking around for hands raised.>
Okay, we're all done with what we've came to do.  How many just rip the toilet paper quickly at the roll when it needed, and how many tear it so there is a bit left hanging, and how many have checked to make sure there is a little bit of toilet paper hanging for the next person?  Hmmmmmm?





1 comment:

  1. not to mention exactly how damn hard can it be to make a door fastener that works?
    You forgot to mention, when mentioning the waste, the absolute horror of toilet paper that has TOUCHED THE FLOOR and therefore must be pulled off and discarded. Usually by dropping it on the floor.

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