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[#1]

Let’s talk gas station bathrooms, although you probably don’t want to get me started.  I was driving across the state the other day, and my long-standing rule to try and avoid gas station bathrooms was, sadly, not an option.

Here are a few questions I have on the subject:

1)       Do they really need to lock a bathroom that has no toilet paper, soap or paper towels?

2)       Why should only employees wash their hands? The customers are touching all of the food and drinks that I’m about to buy.

 3)       Please!  I do not want to visit a “unisex” bathroom. (a.k.a – both types of commodes, if you know what I mean.) Sorry, fellas—but I’ve seen your public bathrooms.

 4)       If their bathrooms look like this, I can’t image what the food storage areas look like that the public never sees.

Frankly, it’s shocking how a “mini-mart” gas station can look somewhat pristine and then have a bathroom that looks like it hasn’t been cleaned since the turn of the century. Are they trying to dissuade people from using it?  If so, perhaps they just need a sign that says…

“This bathroom is purposely filthy because we don’t want non-paying customers to use it — therefore, good paying customers should go elsewhere since this one is pretty bad.”

But, instead of these signs, we have these…that pretty much sums up the fact that they think we’re idiots.

                              I really needed this one....

If there are 300 people in this stall, I'm calling

 the Guiness Book of World Records... 

                        Didn't I say something about "unisex bathrooms?"

I gotta admit...the green & pink highlighter

was a nice touch in "Please".

                                                             This is more like it...I always wondered where

                                                                                        they were supposed to go....

And so, I travel on...always in search of that elusive gas station bathroom

that makes a song in my heart...and my stomach not turn...

[#2]

That was hilarious! I loved the pictures of the signs. Obviously that place was having a problem with people washing their feet in the toilet since they felt they actually had to put a sign up. I have to imagine that the rest were meant to be humorous by the people who placed them there? I have to wonder as well why gas stations lock their bathrooms. At first I was thinking that maybe it was so no one could do illegal transactions in them, but then of course a criminal could just go in and say, "Can I have a key to the bathroom? I'm going to go sell black market items but you won't see me do it anyway so it really doesn't matter. Go back to your six dollar an hour job selling gas and gum and just forget I was here."

[#3]

Those signs make me think what a blast the graphic designers who came up with them must have had!  Actually some of them add a whole new dimension to the word "graphic"!

[#4]

I didn't know whether to laugh out loud or cringe when I read this, since I can certainly relate to the often offputting experience that using a public restroom can be. I have taken to carrying a packet of tissues and sanitary hand gel in my purse, because one never knows what one will face. I also always pull the door open (I never understood why restroom doors have to be pulled open from the inside and not simply pushed out) with a paper towel or my sleeve, because I don't want to think about the germs on the handle.