I don't see the profit in that

[depechemodefan]

My co-worker was telling me that a woman was kicked out for the day for "using the bathroom to wash parts that arn't seen in public."

Obviously she's not a regular or she would be using the old library's bathroom, where only one office is open, so there is only one guard.

Then the kicker. She removed a toliet seat. She didn't steal it (being that she was taking her bath in the bathroom, which has no shower facilities). I talked to one of the cleaning people, seeing if she was stuck with the thankless job of installing the thing, but luckily she's not. Though she told me people do steal the seats.

I try hard not to touch a toliet seat; if I have to I make sure my hand is wrapped in a lot of toliet paper or I can use my foot. But to touch the seat to remove the thing, and your face has to be close to the toliet to reach under to undo the screws...ew.

[I_Hate_SCs]

...She removed a toliet seat. She didn't steal it (being that she was taking her bath in the bathroom, which has no shower facilities)....

I hope my line of logic is flawed, but do you mean she was using the public toilet water to 'clean' her body? I wonder how she smelled after leaving the bathroom!

[Lingering Grin]

I hope my line of logic is flawed, but do you mean she was using the public toilet water to 'clean' her body? I wonder how she smelled after leaving the bathroom!

There's an obvious answer to that question (and leads into a pun about how she was probably acting), but I won't say it, because it's not appropriate, even for this audience


Now on to the next question... WHY!?
At least tell me she was some really nasty hooker or something.

[PepperElf]

a bath in the toilet?

you know... that's why they invented those baby wipes
for those times when you dont feel so fresh and want a bath

[depechemodefan]

She removed a toliet seat. She didn't steal it (being that she was taking her bath in the bathroom, which has no shower facilities).

I think I should have re-read what I wrote. She removed the seat, but I guess she either didn't have time to steal it, since she was caught washing herself, or she just is disturbed.

At least tell me she was some really nasty hooker or something.

My co-worker said he never seen her before, but she was old, had gray hair and looked homeless.

[sirwired]

To be perfectly serious, fresh toilet water really isn't that unsanitary. (Unless of course the water is already "used".) If you are homeless, I could think of a lot worse places to take a sponge (err... large wad of toilet paper) bath than a toilet.

I've never quite understood toilet-seat-o-phobia. I've never heard of anybody contracting a dread disease through the skin of their tush (the skin on your ass is already quite unsanitary; any additional residual germs are pretty much a rounding error), and if you wash your hands well afterwards, I don't see the danger unless the seat is obviously contaminated with layers of poo.

I am, however, boggled, as to why somebody would steal the toilet seat. They really aren't that comfortable; what could you possibly want to do with it?

SirWired

[RetailWorkhorse]

what could you possibly want to do with it?

Hang it in a tree!!!!

Oh, come on, was I the only one to watch Dead Like Me?

[blas]

Fluffy pink plush toilet seats are very comfortable, I thank you.

[Zeniq]

Oh, come on, was I the only one to watch Dead Like Me?

Nope, I love that show! I can't wait for the movie to come out.

[Daskinor]

Nope, I love that show! I can't wait for the movie to come out.

Me three!

[Balgram]

I've never quite understood toilet-seat-o-phobia. I've never heard of anybody contracting a dread disease through the skin of their tush (the skin on your ass is already quite unsanitary; any additional residual germs are pretty much a rounding error), and if you wash your hands well afterwards, I don't see the danger unless the seat is obviously contaminated with layers of poo.

True. You are far more likely to get diseases from a telephone.
References (not scientific, but I'm in a hurry)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=2273311
http://www.theage.com.au/news/colds-...335854017.html

I didn't realize that the toilet bowl had clean water, I understood it was the container in back. I'd believe it, but as a janitor I don't even want to consider touching that water. I know what was there before it filled up the bowl.

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I feel kinda sorry for that homeless lady person, but I too have no desire to imagine the odor she must have had before and after her little cleansing.

[karma_gypsy]

At least she was trying to bathe herself ... but if she's going to put on the same ol' stank clothes that she was wearing ... then that kind of negates the whole process of getting clean in the first place ...

[ralerin]

Hang it in a tree!!!!

Oh, come on, was I the only one to watch Dead Like Me?

Nope. Finally a reference I got.

[nhollywood]

To be perfectly serious, fresh toilet water really isn't that unsanitary. (Unless of course the water is already "used".) If you are homeless, I could think of a lot worse places to take a sponge (err... large wad of toilet paper) bath than a toilet.

I've never quite understood toilet-seat-o-phobia. I've never heard of anybody contracting a dread disease through the skin of their tush (the skin on your ass is already quite unsanitary; any additional residual germs are pretty much a rounding error), and if you wash your hands well afterwards, I don't see the danger unless the seat is obviously contaminated with layers of poo.

I am, however, boggled, as to why somebody would steal the toilet seat. They really aren't that comfortable; what could you possibly want to do with it?

SirWired

Actually, the toilet water is pretty clean. In order for bacteria to grow, they need a warm, dark, moist place (yes, I was a microbiologist at one time). The toiletphobia is understandable but not accurate.

[PepperElf]

fresh toilet water really isn't that unsanitary.

but if someone did a big clingy #2 in that bowl it might not be so fresh now...