Public potties

[Tonya]

A brief relief is a ziplock bag with these crystal things that jel up. Kinda like clumping litter. The few times I used them, I procrastinated for so long, that by the time I went, I really had to go. Didn't quite work out, if ya know what I mean.

Oh, gosh...I have to tell a story. (again) Those of you that heard my whole sexual harrassment ordeal at work will get a kick out of this, it involves that guy that pushed me down.

This was a few years ago. Dave was working in a manhole and I was working a few blocks away from him on a pole. (I work at the phone company). He paged me and said he had to go somewhere. He wanted to take my truck because his truck was hooked up to the cable and airblowers. You couldn't really move his truck. So I came to relieve him and he took my truck. He told me he'd be back in 20 minutes. And I sat in his truck and waited. Well, I really really really had to pee. And Dave had both my truck and his truck keys. Well, three hours pased. So, I finally got desperate and dug around on his truck for a brief relief. I climb down the ladder of the manhole (the only private place to use it) and the dang manhole is three feet deep with water. He had been to lazy to pump the water out...apparently, he'd been standing on the ladder working on that all day rather then standing on the ground. Well, by then, I really really had to go. So I decided to try to balance on the ladder and pee into the brief relief. Well, just my luck, I slipped, and the dang brief relief splashed pee all over me. Which, as you could imagine was really really uncool.

So, he came back and he wanted me to stay and help him. Well, obviously, I wanted to go somewhere and shower and change. But of course, I really didn't want to tell him what had happened.

So...this is the funny part....

He was arguing about me taking off, so I finally figured I had to give a little info...So I said "Dave, I had an accident, I need to go change..." (I am laughing so hard as I type this.) As I was saying that, I had meant to insinuate that I'd started my period and needed to go change. I wasn't about to tell him I had pee all over myself.

And then Dave goes "Oh, I totally understand...That happens to me all the time."

I go "What happens to you?"

*snickers* get ready for this....

He goes "You know, I poop my pants. After lunch, I just can't hold it. I always bring a spare change of clothes just in case....It happens like once a week to me."

He was dead serious. He was really telling me this because he thought I'd pooped my pants just like him. lmao.

p.s. I appologize to those of you who get offended or grossed out easily.

[G.P.girl]

LMAO!!! did you tell him you didn't poop your pants??

[Tonya]

I was laughing to hysterically to say anything. He got the drift. He made me swear up and down not to tell anyone. It was really hard not to, but I only told my friends, family, and close co-workers. (To name a few.) The story is so funny that it is worth sparing the embarrasment that I spilled pee on myself.

[almamee]

Great story you should be a story teller lol

[GoldenRetrLuver]

LOL! That was great!

ROTFLMAO Tonya!! I was laughing so hard through the whole thing. That story is definately a keeper.

[catnapper]

Originally posted by Tonya
I was laughing to hysterically to say anything. He got the drift. He made me swear up and down not to tell anyone. It was really hard not to, but I only told my friends, family, and close co-workers. (To name a few.) The story is so funny that it is worth sparing the embarrasment that I spilled pee on myself.

LOL! Now you've told the whole pet loving world! ROTFL!

Oh Tanya, that story was too funny, I'm wiping my eyes from the tears of laughing to hard!

Ok, back to the whole public potty thing. I LOVE those little tissue paper things you pull out and lie on the seat. I nearly pinch myself when I find a public restroom that provides them.. and usually they are also the cleaner variety of restroom.

Another story. My brother is like the hand-washing police. If he goes to a public restroom and a guy doesn't wash his hands, my brother will whisper to al of us that so-and-so didn't wash his hands. One time we were at the Philadelphia Zoo for a party thrown for all of the city's Interior Designers by one of the big firms. I didn't want to go alone, so I brought my bro. I met up with someone from design school so we chatted for a while. My brother did the elbow-me-whisper-about-unwashed-hands thing, and then my former classmate introduced her fiance - aka Mr. didn't-wash-hands and I was standing there thinking of a way to politely greet him without having to shake his hand!

[gini]

Just a few tidbits to add to this thread.

I read in the paper the other day that a man was using a portable john and threw a cigarette in it. The methane gas had built up and it ignited when he threw the cigarette in. He was injured and managed to drive himself to the hospital. Bet he won't do that again.

Also, speaking of washing your hands...........most people barely get their hands wet. You are supposed to wash for at least 15 seconds to be really clean. Try it sometime and count 15 seconds as you wash. You will be surprised how much longer that is than the time you usually take.

Tonya, there is no question - you do not have a dull life!!!

[Tonya]

And another thing about washing hands...I'm a real stickler about this...(Aside from when I'm stuck at work...)

Touching ANYTHING in that bathroom after you wash your hands. I don't touch the faucet, the papertowel thingy, the door handle, nothing! I get a papertowl before I even wash my hands to touch all that stuff. Because all those dontwashtheirhands people have touched that stuff!

[MariaM]

I agree Tonya! I always try to use paper towel to touch the doorhandle and stuff.

[G.P.girl]

i use a paper towel to touch everything, to turn the sink on , to turn it off to roll the paper towels down. and i use my foot to flush. i don't even use those toilet covers when they do have them, i can't even imagaine sitting on one....ugh! how do guys do it? you alwasy hear about them going and plopping down on the public toilets and reading a magazine

[Tonya]

I don't bother with the paper thingys...I just don't sit on the toilet. Pee can soak right from the toilet seat through those paper things!

[G.P.girl]

yep and i hat ethose toilets that flush and get you all wet if you squat too low... i wonder if anyone sits on a porta-pottie?

[sirrahbed]

I went to visit my daughter (Sirrahsim) in Japan this past March. The toilets there were...um...an experience! HERE is even a little animation for those who want to *experience* it I tried it - much to the embarrassment of my daughter My only problem was getting back UP It really is rather sanitary though! See what ya think

[Tonya]

My husband never mentioned those toilets! No way!

[sirrahbed]

Originally posted by Tonya
My husband never mentioned those toilets! No way!

The japanese?? Oh YES - in the train stations and public restrooms If you want a regular one - you have to request "western toilet" Bring your own TP and a towel to dry your hands, also. Ask hubby