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People who drop loo roll on the floor in toilets

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notedbiscuits · 22/11/2025 12:28

Whenever I use a toilet in a shopping centre, hospital etc, i regularly see loo roll on the floor. Why can’t people just pick these bits up and put them in the toilet? Obviously don’t wipe with these.

Do these people have loo roll around their toilet(s) at home? I doubt it!

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Achewyhamster · 23/11/2025 09:40

I work in retail and part of my job is checking the loos (I check them every 15 mins ish and take pride in having a loo that's really clean)

I'd be on my knees with gratitude if someone just left a bit of loo roll on the floor

In the last fortnight alone I've had:
Shit smeared up the walls
Piss up the wall and all over the floor
Unflushed toilet
Used San pro stuck to the door/wall/loo
Snot wiped on the door handles
Shit smeared all over the bowl
Shitty boxer shorts stuffed in the bowl and had been flushed
Used condoms/pregnancy tests/vapes left floating in the bowl/thrown on the floor
Someone shoved a whole roll of paper in the bowl and shat on top of it
Blobs of cum in the urinal

And the worst one (I'm going back about a year) was a family (mum,dad and 3 kids) had gone into the disabled and shat all over the floor-the puddle of shit was crawling with worms

I can deal with a bit of loo roll-i can sweep that up and bin it

WhamBamThankU · 23/11/2025 09:46

I worked in a hospital as a domestic and the staff toilets were the worst! Womens again worse than mens. They were also the sort of people who would miss the bin in their office and leave it on the floor for us to clean up 🫠

Waitingfordoggo · 23/11/2025 09:46

@Didshejustsaythatoutloud My current peeve is the ones who try to return their trolley but the bay is already full, so they return the trolley anyway and then others follow suit and before you know it you have a chain of trolleys halfway across the car park so cars can no longer move safely around the car park. So idiotic- just find a different trolley bay FFS! (But of course the next trolley bay is a whole 30 metres away and so many people are too lazy and unfit to take a short walk).

RosesAndHellebores · 23/11/2025 09:47

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 15:07

Yes, but I dont 'touch' anything dirty in the loo, I use paper to touch everything but thats difficult to touch paper which is already dirty.

The loo is always much cleaner after Ive been in there, the floor is clean and dry, the rim of the loo is clean and dry. Its me who cleans up after other people, perhaps some people on this thread in fact. A few bits of loo paper which have been used to clean the floor shoved to the back of the cubicle with my foot, is better for the proper cleaner than having to step in god knows what on the floor before I got there.

What sort of public loos are you using @soupyspoon? I don't encounter ones with wet, tiddly floors (except at the beach). Also what are you doing with your trousers if they trail on then floor? I don't think this has ever happened to me.

IAmKerplunk · 23/11/2025 09:51

The irony is there will be a proportion of people who leave a public loo in a disgusting shit state who then also complain if a builder wants to use the loo at their home

SnowFrogJelly · 23/11/2025 09:55

Whatever you touch in a public toilet will be fine as long as you wash your hands properly after 🙄

zingally · 23/11/2025 10:25

I agree! I work in primary schools, and am constantly seeing bits of loo roll and hand towels on the floor!
Then I got into the staffroom and look at all these friendly, professional-looking people, and wondering what their houses look like!
I get accidentally dropping a bit of loo roll, but why on earth just leave it there?! I can honestly say, in all my years of using toilets, I've never once dropped any rubbish and thought, "fuck it - leave it there". Bizarre behaviour.

notedbiscuits · 23/11/2025 15:35

Waitingfordoggo · 23/11/2025 09:46

@Didshejustsaythatoutloud My current peeve is the ones who try to return their trolley but the bay is already full, so they return the trolley anyway and then others follow suit and before you know it you have a chain of trolleys halfway across the car park so cars can no longer move safely around the car park. So idiotic- just find a different trolley bay FFS! (But of course the next trolley bay is a whole 30 metres away and so many people are too lazy and unfit to take a short walk).

A friend that worked for supermarket, helped on trolleys when the usual two were off. He had to move a whole line of trolleys- c30 longer. He saw a man hooking up a trolley to the bay in the corner. The car parked next to the bay was blocked in by the trolleys.

The man according to my friend was one of those who complained all the time. He would have been complaining about his car being blocked in.

Also if it’s very windy, the trolleys move side to side a lot. Then if not all the trolleys are hooked up, they can move backwards and these trolleys will be moving across the car park.

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looselegs · 23/11/2025 15:42

Poppins2016 · 22/11/2025 14:45

I agree, I just don't understand it. I doubt people do it in their bathroom(s) at home.

See also: the state of shared kitchens at work

They don't do it at home because they're the ones who have to clean it up. Elsewhere, their attitude is very much ' not my job '. I worked as a cleaner and I've seen it all!

RosesAndHellebores · 23/11/2025 15:52

Scrolling this thread has reminded me of the last time I went to Tesco and needed a wee. Somebody, some absolute minger, had dropped a poo on the middle of thebfloor between the basins and the toilet cubicles. The mond boggles!

Thebibleofdave · 23/11/2025 16:38

Cleaner here. There is not a day i don't go into work and there isn't a shit covered pair of boxers stuffed in the loo brush holder, down the toilet or in the cistern. Not a shift where im not cleaning chunks of vomit out of the urinals even though there is a bin present. Used tampons stuffed all over even though there are sanitary bins. Toilet roll on the floor is standard. I found a boot in the toilet once??? I have no clue what the hell people are thinking but a total disregard for the people that have to clean it. I'm not paid enough haha

thisisme13 · 23/11/2025 16:55

I have severe OCD so very rarely use toilets, especially not somewhere like a supermarket. But if I had to and accidentally dropped something on the floor I wouldn’t be able to pick it up, whether it was toilet paper or my wedding ring!

You don’t always know the reason why people might behave a certain way.

notedbiscuits · 23/11/2025 18:31

A former colleague worked for a Premier Inn. It was one that is on an A road. About a year before she left, most of the rooms were used by contractors doing major roadworks nearby. They smeared poo all over the ceilings, wiped their bums on curtains, shower curtain and towels.

Why do people think it’s ok to smear poo everywhere?

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Waitingfordoggo · 23/11/2025 18:51

@notedbiscuits Yes it’s dangerous and inconvenient. You’d have hoped people would work that out for themselves but clearly lots don’t.

Isobel201 · 23/11/2025 19:39

And usually the toilets are stuffed with so much toilet paper so it won't flush, that annoys the hell out of me.

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