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To think that someone else's freaky hygiene habits shouldn't impact on my use of public spaces?

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willsa · 12/03/2018 14:04

All this tissues-everywhere business is starting to annoy me!
I went into coffee shop's toilets today and was confronted with toilet tissue on the toilet seat ( some sheets on the floor ), toilet tissue still attached to the handle of the taps ( one sheet in the sink ) and toilet tissue next to the door. Angry
So I can't use the space unless I start cleaning up. I have to touch tissues where someone's actual ars* was planted ( even though it's probably of the type that has seen more bleach than a train station bog ) or I'm forced to use tissues too to move all that crap away.
I had to pick tissue out of the sink otherwise how do I wash hands without a probability of blocking it?

Honestly, would I've seen who used the loo before me, I'd have had words with them and would have demanded they clean up after themselves.
I don't have to bow to your stupid habits, so stop littering and clean up after yourselves!
Even better, stay away from public spaces - my piss is more potent than any Russian nerve gas and a bit of flimsy tissue will not save you!

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Eolian · 12/03/2018 14:07

Yanbu. (Genuine OCD and related mental health issues excepted), this constant flapping about germs does my head in!

HariboIsMyCrack · 12/03/2018 14:22

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willsa · 12/03/2018 14:27

The mental health issues would have to be pretty severe to leave mess like that...
A person with OCD could just take another tissue ( since it's nothing to them ), sweep all the mess in the loo and leave it there.
You're right about "flapping". I don't even know if I have ever heard about dangerous germs and infections spreading via public toilets. There are germs EVERYWHERE from EVERYONE, not just toilets. The worst infection I have ever "caught" was from my own shoe that was rubbing and the next thing I know, I had sepsis. I mean, you can't avoid germs. Washing hands is the best we all can do.

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willsa · 12/03/2018 14:35

Haribols even though I do think your habits are OTT ( according to my low standards Grin ), I am aware that it is my opinion which doesn't really matter an I'm totally fine with anybody keeping as clean as they can be. I'm only irate when I have to clean up.... and I might roll my eyes sometimes ( if I'm dangerously honest here ).

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Jaxhog · 12/03/2018 14:51

OTT hygene - fine. Leaving the dirty tissues you used - not fine. Disgusting in fact.

LizB62A · 12/03/2018 14:52

There's someone at work who does this (huge company, thousands of people at head office, so I have no idea who)

Loo paper spread all over the seat.
Surely they could knock it into the loo and flush it away ?!

NewSense · 12/03/2018 15:03

I felt awful the other day because I had to line the cubicle floor with tissue before we could use the toilet. There was wee EVERYWHERE. I had a toddler with me, who would have stood in it and then I'd have had it kicked all over me whilst carrying them.

I don't mind (ha... Hmm ) wiping a few drops off the seat (and then I use it like a normal person, none of this hovering spraying technique...), but having to wade through a sea of urine to actually use the loo is disgusting.

Ordinarily I'd just go to a different cubicle, but there was only one toilet in the place, and the toddlers needs were urgent.

But I do feel bad for leaving the place covered in paper. It's not normal or necessary (if everyone peed like a human).

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