Honestly what is wrong with people? warning gross story, involves #2

[npmommie]

So this afternoon we are out for lunch and a little shopping, we go to this local department store.......I like going there because its like in a time warp, even has the candy counter, and they sell decent brand clothes.
anyway..........my dd and I have to tinkle so we head to the bathroom, we go in and its small, old fashioned, has 3 stalls. I open the door to stall #1 and there is #2 smeared all over the toilet.

we both exclaimed ewwwwww!!!

so I check the next one and there is #2 ALL OVER, like it exploded out if you know what I mean. Its on the seat, the walls, all over the stall.
At that point I was so disgusted, I didn't even look in the third stall.
so we go out, and there is a sales clerk there and I ask her if there is another bathroom in the store, she says no.........I say "have you been in that one lately" she says no and I tell her what is in there. she looks grossed out and horrified and calls someone on the phone, to come take care of it.
I pitied that poor worker, I really did that had to clean that.
I would want a haz mat suit........hehe

so then we are walking around, and I feel grossed out because to get out of the bathroom, I had to touch the doorknob, there were no paper towels......and I wasn't about to step in a stall to get TP........
so I am thinking whoever did that gross business probably didn't wash their hands......... and I really wanted to wash mine at that point.

so we are up on another floor and I see a counter next to the cash register counter, there is no one there, but there is a bottle of purell on the end, not anywhere near the cash register, I didn't have to step behind the counter, I just reached and took a squirt of purell...............
well............some sales lady comes flying out of no where saying "can I help you?"...........looking at me all stern like, so I say, "oh I just needed a squirt of purell" but I could feel her dagger eyes going into my back as I walked away. I almost thought she was going to follow me


so what I want to know is.......... who does this????? Who covers a bathroom stall with #2 like that??? and do they do this at home???

 

[OK!]

I don't know what possesses some people (though I'd like to give the #2-er the benefit of the doubt and think that maybe she had some sort of unavoidable gastrointestinal cataclysm.) When I worked at a department store waaaay back in the day, we would sometimes have people opt to, er, "lighten their loads" in the dressing rooms! And it wasn't always children, either. It happened twice while I worked there; I shudder to think how many times it went on throughout the years.

Random aside: I have the Blues hockey postgame show on TV while I'm DISing and as I started typing this reply, one of the broadcasters mentioned that the Blues had scored 7 goals for the first time in 11 years and said, "So...an EXPLOSION here tonight..." Thanks to this thread, that brought to mind an extremely unpleasant visual.

 

[Sparx]

my best friend's mom used to work at walmart, as a secret shopper. she was walking through the store one day, and she came across a...uhm. pile? of #2 right in the middle of the aisle on the floor! she pulled out her walkie and started calling for maintenance and this woman in a long dress walks up to her and says, "that's mine." we still have NO idea why she told her.

 

[Stacerita]

my best friend's mom used to work at walmart, as a secret shopper. she was walking through the store one day, and she came across a...uhm. pile? of #2 right in the middle of the aisle on the floor! she pulled out her walkie and started calling for maintenance and this woman in a long dress walks up to her and says, "that's mine." we still have NO idea why she told her.

She claimed it???

 

[Luv Bunnies]

OMG! I hate walking into bathrooms like that! It reminds me of the elementary school where I work. My preschool class is on the same wing as the kinders and 1st graders and I take the potty-trained kids to the bathroom everyday. I've seen some pretty gross stuff in those bathrooms. One day, #2 was all over the floor. I had to grab my little student to keep her from running in there and getting it all over her shoes. I took her to another restroom and then called our poor custodian. He always puts on a mask and at least 2 pairs of gloves when he deals with those messes. Our classroom staff gave him a nice bag of goodies for Christmas to thank him for dealing with all that stuff and keeping his sense of humor.

 

[Sparx]

She claimed it???

YES!

my friend's mom said, "uh. okay." and then the lady walked away. it was so WEIRD.

 

[cheermom1]

She claimed it???

 

[MIGrandma]

Those of us with severe stomach issues (I have a wheat sensitivity, 'nuf said) are probably more understanding about issues like that, than everyone else might be.

But still, if I do have issues when I'm out shopping I make sure to check the toilet seat (and under) for any, um....backsplash (to put it as delicately as possible) and I always take care of that before flushing and leaving the stall.

I don't understand anyone who wouldn't clean up after themselves in a public bathroom. They have to clean it up at home (don't they?) so why would they leave it for someone else to deal with? Laziness? I guess so.

Even I, with "issues" think it's disgusting when people don't clean up after themselves if they have a problem. Leaving it is just wrong.

 

[OceanAnnie]

That reminds me of one time we were at Chuck E. Cheese. The place was crawling with kids of course. Sock feet. I was there for a birthday party. I went to the restroom and was horrified for this poor lady and amazed at all of the mess.

This poor old woman must have had a terrible medical condition. She didn't make it to the toilet. It was like water coming from a faucet. She did get in a stall but it was flowing all over the floor and the woman was crying out. Someone from her group came to help her and I notified a person that worked there. I don't know how she got out of the place. Meanwhile, kids were pouring in. It was awful.

I know not all situations are like that, not by a long shot. But I think about that day sometimes when something isn't quite right in a public restroom.

 

[tazdev3225]

My DDIL worked in a deli when she first dated my son. She came home and told us the grossest but funniest story about this subject. There was a man who came in and needed the restroom. Unfortunately he was already leaving a steady stream of #2 all through the store and all over the restroom. She said they were all gagging. They had to close for over a half hour while the floors and bathroom were scrubbed and disinfected. The funny part the way she told it was that he knew he was doing this and didn't even try to hurry to the facilities. When he left he told them he wasn't feeling well when he came in but he was all better now. He was but they weren't.
As far as the woman who claimed her deposit all I can say is yuck. It takes all kinds.

 

[PatriciaH]

Uggg... I thought I was one of the only ones that had seen gross things like that! I worked in Lord and Taylor on 5th Ave. in NYC and you would not believe some of the #2 accidents that happened in there. #2 in the fitting room, pile of adult size #2 behind the registers and #2 leaked/tracked in a mile long line all the way to the rest room. I also worked in a store in MA and the bathrooms were like a war zone. Once I went in there and #2 was all over the seat, walls, door, etc. Many older people shopped in both of those stores.

 

[jen0610]

Those of us with severe stomach issues (I have a wheat sensitivity, 'nuf said) are probably more understanding about issues like that, than everyone else might be.

But still, if I do have issues when I'm out shopping I make sure to check the toilet seat (and under) for any, um....backsplash (to put it as delicately as possible) and I always take care of that before flushing and leaving the stall.

I don't understand anyone who wouldn't clean up after themselves in a public bathroom. They have to clean it up at home (don't they?) so why would they leave it for someone else to deal with? Laziness? I guess so.

Even I, with "issues" think it's disgusting when people don't clean up after themselves if they have a problem. Leaving it is just wrong.

I am right there with ya!! Believe me, I would much rather do this at home, but there are times when the IBS kicks in and it is go NOW!!!!

And when I have a bad moment out in public, I'm not doing it to offend the others using the restroom, so the kind comments of "thanks to who couldn't wait to die get home to do it" or "people you **$*@%& stink" are so very much appreciated. There have been times when I have had to bite my tongue not to tell the snotty winches that they had better pray never to get this, because it is just sooo much fun.

 

[freepixie]

At my last job, they would leave me alone with a room full of preschoolers but we had a potty off of the classroom. One boy went in one day, then came running out - he had gone #2 but had pulled it out of the toilet, smeared it on the floors and walls and potty and himself, leaving nice little poopy footprints throughou the room OMG I thought I was gonna die!! And yes, I was the lucky one who had to clean it up using only bleach, paper towels and rubber gloves!

The kicker? That mother decided to call a complaint in on me saying that I treated her child so poorly that was why he smeared poo everywhere