Seriously people?

[TigressChar]

This just happened at my hotel.

We have two public bathrooms, and I just had a check in, the wife had to go really bad. I directed her down the hall to them, she came back a moment later. "I can't use that" she said to both me and her husband who was checking her in.

"You need Housekeeping." she said, but that was all.

"Oh I'm sorry, thank you. We do have another bathroom right next to it, its a mens but its the same thing." I told her.

She shook her head, all the while crossing her legs, clearly she desperately has to go!

"Are there any stores open at this time?" she asked.

Me: "Yeah there's a <chain store> just up the road open until 11"

"Good," Turns to husband, "We need to go up there and get some bleach,"

Husband. "What? No we don't!"

Wife: "Do you remember what happened in.. <place><place> and <place>?"

Me: alright your room is <blah blah> < Finnish check in>

Husband: "here take the key and just go in the room.>

Wife: 'But No! I need bleach first!"

By this point I'm gathering she wants her own virgin bottle of bleach to clean her room bathroom with because shes so disgusted by what she saw in the public restroom, that she doesn't trust our cleaning.

The husband insists and he goes to park, and she begrudgingly heads for the elevator.

So with her, I was more like WTF...?

I head over to the bathroom to see what the fuss is about. The room doesn't need Housekeeping! Its needs a blow torch! The room was FLOODED with toilet water, flowing out of the bowl, which is clearly clogged by poopy water. I gingerly walk through the bathroom to the toilet and pull the cap off and fiddle with the handle until it seals. Thank God it sealed!

I went back to the desk and made an OOO sign to tape to the door. No way in hell I'm braking out the bleach and cleaning the bathroom! No my job, and I only have one pair of shoes i can work in, one pair of black pants to work in, and a new shirt!

Seriously people! Must you clog the toilet? There is a plunger right there in case you do! Why do you assume we will clean up your crap? Whoever it was also left the baby changing table down, which is behind the door, making me have to fight to get in the room any way.

nasty.

The first lady is super nice, even though she made me scratch my head. If she wanted to personally wipe down her room toilet I'd would gladly provide her with the supplies. It wouldn't be the first time. If it makes them happy, so be it. Our toilets are generally spotless and our hotel very very clean.

As they left to go for dinner, they offered to get me some pizza, i declined, but it was a nice thought, and I thanked her for telling me about the bathroom.

All in all she wasn't sucky, just, made me wonder, but the sucky one was the one who clearly let the toilet flood! By the time the person could have washed their hands, and grabbed some paper towels, it would have been more than clear the toilet was overflowing! Whoever left it, KNEW they were leaving it!

[Pixilated]

I don't understand that either. If the plumbing "misbehaved" through no fault of the user, why can they not at least let a staff member know?? I walked into a stall at the college the other day and some previous user had apparently decided to put nearly an entire roll of TP into the toilet -- with no flushing at any point. There wasn't much to be done except notify somebody who could go get the maintenance staff ... or a plumber ... or possibly somebody with access to some low-level explosives.

[BrenDAnn]

I deal with this at the C-Store all the damn time! Most recent was the men's room, and it ended up out of service all night the night before Thanksgiving, when I was slammed with customers all night long. It makes me wonder, too, why people don't just TELL US when that stuff happens. Is it that embarrassing? We also keep a plunger in each bathroom. Learn to use it, people. Not that hard!

[Kristev]

I had to put up with a lot of deliberate clogs when I was a janitor.

Part of the problem was the wrappers of stolen merchandise stuffed into the toilets that didn't flush away. I begged and begged for them to put security at the restrooms. That's where so much of our crime was.

[Bright_Star]

Why people STILL put TP directly into a toilet bowl after they use it amazes me. I've been putting it in the trash after I've used it for years. Prevents clogging.

[PepperElf]

Whoever it was also left the baby changing table down

perhaps that explains what clogged the toilet?

bleh.

[cindybubbles]

Why people STILL put TP directly into a toilet bowl after they use it amazes me. I've been putting it in the trash after I've used it for years. Prevents clogging.

It's not the fact that they put TP into the toilet. It's that they either flush down too much at a time (thus, clogging the toilet) or that they don't flush at all (thus, grossing out everyone else). I've done the former before, but I will tell someone whenever I get a chance.

People also put TP into the toilet because the TP is biodegradable, whereas the trash may not be so much. I used to put it into the trash to prevent clogging, but now that my toilet is new and built for flushing TP down the drain, I went back to flushing the TP instead of trashing it.

Finally, people put TP into public toilets because either there is no trash can or the trash can is for feminine hygiene products (like pads and tampons) only. We really don't have a choice in most public toilets when it comes to disposing of our TP.

[Draco]

I'm suddenly very glad that I'm not one of the people who changes trash bags at my store. I've never heard of people putting used toilet paper in the trash before. That is, no offense, disgusting and seems very unhygienic. And the smell it would cause...

[Kristev]

It is, and it does. But the consumers have worse things lurking in their bodies than waste, and they're always willing to prove it.

People who know their kids are sick would take them shopping anyway. Continuously.

[HappyFun Ball]

If you don't use a half roll of tp to wipe with, I see no reason why you shouldn't flush it.. Tp is specially designed to be flushed.. Plus I don't want to see shit stained tp in the trash stinking of the bathroom.

[BamaBabe]

I have never heard of anyone putting used TP in the trash can. As Draco stated, it has to be non-hygienic.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Why people STILL put TP directly into a toilet bowl after they use it amazes me. I've been putting it in the trash after I've used it for years. Prevents clogging.

I have never heard of anyone putting used TP in the trash can. As Draco stated, it has to be non-hygienic.

In some countries the septic systems cannot handle the toilet paper and it is the norm to put the used toilet paper into a trash can. I think an earlier thread on this forum discussed how people from those areas of the world created problems when they came to the US and disposed of the toilet paper in trash cans instead of flushing it. It made for some disgusting restrooms.

[notlovinit]

Ah, this all reminds me of a time when I had a guy come up to me and proceed to tear me a new one about how bad that state of the men's room was and how we need to check it more often and it is disgusting and we should all be fired. I send someone in there, feeling bad for them and thinking that it is going to be a mess worthy of what the OP described. Actual reason the guy was so upset? One toilet was not flushed.