Small people or large sinks? :hehe:

Though after reading subsequent posts, I've finally realised that people are talking about toilets rather than bathrooms. Public toilets seem to vary a lot, from those that are pleasant and well-maintained to those that are truly horrific. And there seems to be no way of telling in advance: even the surroundings and establishment in which said toilets are to be found often have no bearing on how gruesome they might be.

I know where a lot of nice restrooms are in my area. There's these state offices near one of the schools I work at and they are open to the public. They have very nice bathrooms that are maintained daily (even though they really don't need to since almost no one uses them)

I piss on the seat if the toilet is already dirty and I can't get too close on it (I don't aim at the seat, it just happens).

Same here. The only time I found a horrendous toilet was either in college or a public transportation bathroom.

I live in a dorm hall that has a communal bathroom. You don't know half of the horrors I see in there... A cheap horror movie could be made out of all the disgusting substances I find in the communal bathroom.

Generally speaking public restrooms around here aren't too bad, depending on the location. However, I have had some pretty horrifying experiences with public restrooms (specifically ones where feces somehow gets all over the walls and ceiling :bonk:).

I may not be a big fan of public bathrooms---but when you're bowls are threatning to open up the sewage flood gates and your bladder just can't hold it any more...Public toilets are a mixed blessing lol .

With 7 or 8 pints of beer inside you, you will use any toilet that's available.

I avoid public bathrooms unless it's an emergency... like clutching my crotch area with both hands and waddling to the bathroom kind of emergency.

Other than that I just hold it in until I get home.

I was on a midnight ferry many, many years ago. The boat was full of bikers, who proceeded to get tanked up as soon as the boat left the dock.

And the sea was quite choppy.

Needless to say, after a few hours the toilets were in a disgusting state (and not just the toilets - you had to be careful where you stepped if you saw a large sheet of newspaper on the stairs).

In one of the cubicles, someone had removed the light bulb and replaced it with a turd! :yucky:

The ones in my area are generally fine, though there seems to be something filthy about them.

Military has the cleanest public bathrooms in the world.

Why is that? Because me and everybody else on the base has to clean them every day. :confused:

If there is one law I force upon myself more than anything, is never, and I mean NEVER go into a public bathroom in this country. :sick:

I hate them, and avoid them at all costs. I only use them for "number one" when it is absolutely necessary, and only use stalls. All the bathrooms where I live are fairly clean, but some are dirty and gross. I also have two bad experiences with them. When I was around seven, some kid climbed over the stall while I was using the bathroom at school, and I was extremely creeped out by that. The reason I only use stalls are because I long time ago I was using the urinal at the cinema, and some little kid grabbed my gentlemen's region for no apparent reason.

Did the stall have a door?...
The elementary school I went to never had them and middle school never had them, but I can't be too sure because I only went once ..
Also a pee trough was used at elementary school.

Yep, it had a door.

Public toilets are horrible, but, like any other drunk, you will use them, and possibly quite often. I've seen some that have made me wretch, and I've seen some that I'd have no problems with. Got to respect those who keep care of their toilets. I work as a cleaner in a factory, and occasionally (not often thankfully) I will be assigned to clean the toilets. It's not that bad where I work, but some of the people are vile.

i saw blood all over the walls in a wallmart mens room...i wait until i see a tree or i get home

Another reason to check first :\
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/04/prank-leaves-man-glued-to-walmart-toilet/

I try avoid them myself, I work on construction sites, and lets just say the site toilets are usually fairly messy. Went in one few weeks ago and there was something like a walking stick sticking up out of the water, a big curved end on it :sick:

I've used the one at the McDonalds in Times Square....(shudder)

:sick: Too much detail man

I hate public bathroom's mostly because I find it incredibly difficult to use the restroom in public places.

Public restrooms are the reason I don't go to the bathrooms at school unless I have no other choice but to go, hence why I go before leaving school. As for the automatic flushers is really so hard to press the button with your shoe (because I'm not touching anything in a stall with my hands) making sure you don't leave anything unpleasent behind?

The worst ever public toilet I ever saw was in Sakai, Osaka, Japan.

My host family and I went down to play some football at a park near their house, and the youngest son in the family dared me to go look at the toilet there (or at least I think he did, I don't speak Japanese very well, and he didn't speak English very well ). So I walked over, host family giggling behind me, and a the first thing that tipped me off that I was about to see something terrible was the horrid buzzing sound the small outhouse was making.

Slowly I opened the door, unleashing the millions of flies that had made their home inside (at this point my host family was rolling on the ground laughing, including the ridiculously clean and polite grandmother). But the flies weren't the worst of it, not by a long shot. It was a western style toilet, that looked like some one had taking to it with a sledgehammer, cracking one side clean off. What remained of the bowl was awash in feces and maggots. The breaking of the toilet bowl must have been quite powerful as the walls and ceiling were splattered in all manner of horrible things.

On top of the cistern was a very large hentai magazine, whose pages had been torn up and plastered over the walls, not in some haphazard way, but in a way that you'd imagine a serial killers bedroom would look. The elder son in the family drew my attention to the rubbish bin out side the toilet, filled from top to bottom with hentai magazines, soiled tissues, and the real kicker, a large, dead, partially burnt rat sitting on top.

I was thankful to return home, to the magic that is the normal household Japanese toilet, heated seat and all.

I hear the woman's restroom are pretty clean and smell decent. The mens rooms are outright disgusting. People need to really work on their accuracy. And flushing. And washing their hands.

Only number one in public restrooms is my rule. I haven't broken that rule in 10 years.