heh, meant it sarcastically. Both where I live now and growing up, I've been in situations where it's 1 bathroom for 5 and 4 people respectively, and a queue forming in your own home for the toilet just gets silly, even if it's frustrating.
I know in a lot of cities they have public latrines so popping a number 1 is easier.
Number 2 is harder. And yeah, if I had to drop a 2 and didn't have any change, I would probably do it right in front of the pay toilet to prove a point.
Which is annoying, because there are only a fixed number of stalls (in my WeWork there are 7 total stalls for all the men in a 7 story building). I hate going from to floor looking for a place to take a shit. Unless you had something really sickening for breakfast or lunch, taking a shit should not take more than 2 minutes. I don't know what people are doing in the bathroom that takes them so long, but I suspect it's people taking a break from their work in privacy.
> It's more of an appeal to emotion than a rational reason.
It sounds more respectable if you call it an 'intuition pump'. Whether or not it is rational to want to defecate privately, this point may lead some fraction of those whose mind was previously made up to reconsider their position. In those cases, it can be the beginning of a conversation.
again, you're incapable of recognizing these are two entirely different situations? Ok, here's what you sound like.
People complained my shit stinks when I shit in the bathroom.
People complained when I took a shit on my grandmother's dining room rug. I get so confused about where to take a shit!
Well to me, your way of taking a dump seems backwards and barbaric. Does not mean my way of doing is the correct one. I'm not insulting, just saying that there are cultural preferences.
Because "everybody poops". If I gotta go, I want to be able to without waiting on someone else. I spent the first 12 years of my life in a single bathroom house, not doing that again.
Oh for sure, that makes more sense.
It just makes me chuckle that in the future using public restrooms, that people will try not to trigger a response from the 'air freshener AI'.
> I bet you close the bathroom or stall door when you poop though.
I do, but not because I'm shy someone might see (a glimpse) of me being naked; I do it so that they don't attempt to enter a toilet already in use. I find myself often not closing the toilet in after hours. In fact, I don't close the toilet at home cause I know the people who can enter won't. Except when I poo, I might, because I don't want them to smell it.
I don't understand this at all. Do you also think like this about the "future you" that might have to shit themself on the bus ride if you don't go to the bathroom before you leave?
> I used to regularly walk into public bathrooms in which someone had used the toilet and simply not flushed it
I use public restrooms once ever two days (sometimes even more) and I very rarely see that. Maybe people in your part of the world are less educated when it comes to using public toilets, or the janitors are not doing their jobs properly (if it matters I live in an Eastern-European capital city).
As for the automatic toilets, I hate them. I only had the displeasure of using them once or twice, and let me tell you, to have that flush of water invade your lower exposed parts all of the sudden while you're doing your toilet-related stuff is not at all nice, quite the contrary. Those toilets are the work of the devil.
I can see where this is coming from. Still, I don't think it's a good approach. For example, some people take 30min per day to take a shit during work time. Other people don't take a shit at all or shit very quickly (2-3 min). Some people pee 5 times during work, while others once. You get my point. Where to draw the line?
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