Had a director who would answer his business phone while on the crapper. He would also call into meetings as needed too.

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Senator Larry Craig with his wide stance and proclamation that he was not gay. Now a lobbyist for the timber industry.

Got wood?

At the Home Depot at 6555 Little River Turnpike in Alexandria VA, someone took a dump on the flushing valve. That means they had to stand up on the bowl, drop their drawers, . . . well, you get the idea.

This is one of several Home Depots in the DC area that provides an orange bucket in each stall for the clientele, because otherwise the used toilet paper winds up on the floor.

You know, from our friends from south of the border.

I could say I actually saw this but in reality it was a cartoon, a sign on the stall door that read "Employees must use paper."

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Had a director who would answer his business phone while on the crapper. He would also call into meetings as needed too.

That's not weird. That's simply a very efficient use of time.

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A fancy restaurant / hotel back east, or was it Vegas, had a shoe shiner (person not machine) in the men's room, all set up for business.

Another place had a restroom attendant who handed you a towel. That's a crappy job.

In Amsterdam, there's a public restroom where you have to pay the older lady attendant after you enter for the use of the toilet. She just kind-a sits in a booth in the restroom and collects the money.

None of these are unusual, much less weird.

The first 2 are very common at high end restaurants and hotels. The attendant's job is to keep the restroom spotless between customers

The 3rd is pretty much universal outside of North America...that is how they keep all the other stuff you're reading about from happening

Long ago, I was standing at a urinal doing my business, by myself in a large public bathroom with a dozen urinals. A guy walks in and urinates in the one right next to me.

One time I was at an Elvis Costello concert and Joe Satriani walks in to use the one next to me, and starts talking to me about how great the concert is.

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...And then there are the cute signs: "We aim to please; you aim, too, please"...

flashguy

First time I saw that sign was in the early 1960's, posted on the wall of an outhouse at the summer lake home of a federal judge who my father used to work for.

A few months before that, I was at his official swearing-in as a judge, nice ceremony with robes, somber formality, and a speech by Senator Everett Dirkson. It was good to see that he had a sense of humor!

A pool table at Shoji Tabuchi theater in Branson, MO

This happened at work, 2 guys coming out of the same stall.

I've been in coed/unisex bathrooms in night clubs, sometimes for extended periods.

People making out, people having sex, drug deals, business deals, cross dressers, little people, nekkid people, famous people, and more. In this context, almost anything you can imagine.

But in a garden variety public restroom? Nothing remarkable.

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Tranny Restroom?

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I've been in coed/unisex bathrooms in night clubs, sometimes for extended periods.

"For extended periods"... so you...in other words...uh... never mind.

There is a slab from the Berlin Wall in a urinal of a men's room in the lobby at The Main Street Station Hotel in Las Vegas.

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I've been in coed/unisex bathrooms in night clubs, sometimes for extended periods.

"For extended periods"... so you...in other words...uh... never mind.

Some have sitting areas with couches *inside* the coed bathroom. Sometimes it's *the* happening spot. Some nights I've entered a given club, parked myself on the couch in the coed bathroom with my date, and never left until I left that night. Sounds weird, I'm sure, but at the time it was hardly different than snagging a spot at the bar, except it was in the bathroom at the bar... Which was clean, with cool furniture, and all that, usually had a Porter working in there too, and sometimes cocktail service in there. Like a VIP room before VIP rooms were a thing.

At a racketball club in the 80's, a gentleman would shave each morning after his shower. He would do so naked and place his junk on top of a hand towel draped over the sink rim/counter. Didn't know if he was displaying it or attempting to dry the under carriage but it was bothersome to see.

This summer. Hilton Head Island. Community pool, middle of the afternoon. Old guy wearing his swim suit, shaving. I know shaving at an airport is fairly common - but a community swimming pool in the middle of day? Just a little strange in my book.

Didn't see first-hand, but wife described as she walked out and told me I was going to have to buy another cup of coffee at another shop to get her the privilege of using a toilet in Italy.

As she described it, this is WAY more refined. Her version was a hole in a tile floor with two sandpaper gripping things beside it.

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That's not weird. That's simply a very efficient use of time.

You and LBJ.