Leviathant  - 2021-12-18
I landed in Miami on Sunday, and it was an absolute hellscape. As I stepped into the terminal from the plane, I spotted a sizable pool of dried blood next to a used defibrillator, so by comparison, my visit wasn't that bad. But when I got to the bathroom, it was crowded enough that a line started to peek out from the bathroom entry into the terminal. Walked down to the next bathroom, and it was the same story.
Now, I had to go, but I knew that if I waited in line for a toilet to free up, I'd be stepping over puddles of piss, and if I ducked into one of the stalls, I'd be peeing onto someone else's brown grenade of a turd that no one had been able to flush. So I made my way to ground transportation, where the Lyfts are all 25 minutes away, and the taxi drivers negotiate the price up front like I'm in Cairo.
All this is to say that I get why the airport employees wanted to install pay toilets. I don't think I've ever pissed on the floor while using a public bathroom, but when using a public bathroom it's like a 50/50 chance that someone who'd been there earlier just closed their eyes, prayed and sprayed.
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Binro the Heretic - 2021-12-18 Or the airport can fucking well pay people to keep their restrooms clean and operational.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2021-12-18 Anyone like to hazard a guess of how much of the 60 thousand dollars the Dallas airport collected yearly went to the janitorial staff?
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duck&cover - 2021-12-18
Debbie Dooks in Dallas
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Binro the Heretic - 2021-12-18
I remember when I was six, my mom went shopping with me in tow to a pretty high-end department store.
After about half an hour waiting as she browsed the ladies' clothing section, I told her I had to pee.
We went to the restrooms only to find they had become pay toilets.
My mom had to stand in a checkout line while I did the pee-pee dance to get change. The clerk was reluctant to make change without a purchase and a supervisor was summoned. The man ended up giving my mom some assorted loose change out of his own pocket in exchange for a dollar note. Company policy forbade the making of change without purchase.
My mom took me to the restroom, and paid to let me go pee. When we left the restroom, I expected we would be headed back to the ladies' clothes, but Mom pulled me sharply to the exit instead.
We never went back there.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2021-12-18 I can see how an airport could get away with this, Airports are generally infamous for being islands of avarice, but a store or a restaurant should probably think twice about whether it wants to enrage a customer for the sake of 10 cents.
I just learned that a search for "pay toilets" is a mildly amusing way to spend a few minutes. For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_in_ America
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casualcollapse - 2021-12-19 Figured somebody would go down the same information hole I went down, good on you JHM
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The Mothership - 2021-12-19
Note to self: fuck up any pay toilet I ever encounter.
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Ugh - 2021-12-22
i'm from big D
you can guess
by the way i drawwwl
i just shit my pants
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