Restrooms in peace
Yeah, you read the title right. I’m going to talk about restrooms. If you’re eating right now, I suggest that you stop or finish whatever you are eating first before you continue reading this.
I saw a road sign a couple of week ago that says:
*Insert the name of a famous fast food chain here*
1km away
With restrooms
It has still a touch of advertizing. I think they put there the words “with restrooms” so that people who are travelling and are being called by the nature will drop by that fast food chain and somehow, they’ll be enticed to buy their products. But it does not mean that if you will use their lavatories, you have to look at their menu and order some food. You see, itÂ’s just another way to attract customers: have some clean restrooms in your establishment!
I just got this memory out of my preconscious memories: I’m not sure if this was in Baguio but what I know is that there was this restroom whose roof has a text that says “Clean restrooms”. I haven’t tried doing my thing in a restroom like this (lavatories in malls and the like are okay for me) because from what I believe, these toilets that are supposed to be clear are not clean at all. Sometimes, you’ll see mud and human waste are scattered everywhere and the floor is wet! What’s more is that if you pissed, you should pay a certain amount of money. If you did more than urinating, you should pay two and a half times the payment for pissing. And if you took a bath (yes, took a bath), that is five time the payment for pissing.
Now, I believe that nowadays, there’s no free in this world. Lol. Would you believe that? Urinating in a dirty restroom will cost you some money!
Oh, I also know a school whose lavatories were under in the mercy of the students. I mean the restrooms in that school will only be immaculate and smell like flowers for only half an hour. Lol. There was also this building in that school where you have to pass this certain male’s restroom and you will be able to smell this pungent odor, the odor of urine. (What is the English translation ofmapanghi?) Oh, there were also no available mirrors because some student had already broken it and the management did not dare to buy a new one. The faucets were not working because the knob used to turn on and off the faucet was already missing and the mechanism used to flush the toilet bowl was already broken. And even if the flushing mechanism worked, you could not still flush it because there is something that clogs the toilet bowl. What do you expect? A sickening restroom! Yuck!
The last time I went to that school, the pungent oder was still there and the floor was wet.
I’m glad that the restrooms in the university where I’m currently enrolled have clean restrooms. And if I’m not mistaken, they are being cleaned by working students.
Let us be considerate. Let us show our respect by flushing or by using the toilet properly to the next user or to the one who is responsible for cleaning it. Let us keep in mind that it’s not just us that is going to use it. We are only using it and it’s not us who owns it.
September 3, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
I’m eating, and I don’t have any problems on reading gory things while munching on some yummy cream spaghetti I’ve cooked. You want? :p
Know what, I used to think that only guys are really reckless when they piss because they’re, well, guys. But “ladies” are as bad when it comes to lavatory maintenance. Boo. When I’m in malls, especially the sosyal ones, I have to pay just to release the tension I feel. How cruel is that? Haha.
Madalas ang mga ganyang signs when in a road trip. I should know, I’d travel from Manila to Baguio and vice versa for a year. And like I’ve mentioned in one of the greatest things I’ve learned in 2005 is how to turn the urge to pee into urge to sleep, lol. :p
I’m also glad that UP has decent tension-releasers
September 3, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
This entry makes me puke big time. The details you mentioned are so graphic and are just… ugh! :eek:
BTW, I dig the title. Hehe.
September 3, 2006 @ 8:12 pm
akalain mo nga naman na pati pagbabawas eh may bayad na… dati nga umihi ako sa Gateway… may bayad pala dun… 10php… pero sulit… akalain mo un na sulit… kasi uber ganda talaga malinis na malinis…
nasubukan ko na din maka-ihi sa mga uber dumi na banyo… eh desperate na ako nun eh… alanganaman sa puno… hindi ako sanay dun! whaha
September 3, 2006 @ 11:06 pm
(*vomiting)
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(*more vomiting)
Arrrgh. Restroom capitalization. Arrrgh. The only option to teach Filipinos the word “hygiene”?
September 3, 2006 @ 11:33 pm
I think they sponsor road signs. Wala lang.
I know that “Clean Restrooms” you’re talking about. Almost all public restrooms in Baguio have that sign, and I doubt it really lives up to its name.
The worst restroom experience I had was in China. It’s not a normal toilet bowl. Parang canal ang dating. Yak. Hehehe.
September 4, 2006 @ 9:33 am
I tried entering one of those public restrooms in the city, and guess what they’re fairly clean naman. Ewan ko lang sa mga lalaki. Hindi kasi kayo mahilig mgflush at maghugas ng kamay. Hehehe. There’s water. parang sa school rin lang, may bayad nga lang. Masmalinis nga ngayon kesa noon na puros putik pa sa loob.
You kow what’s nice about restrooms at school? It’s grafitti!
[name] is ba bitch
tapos sa baba, reply, tapos may nagreply sa reply.
may nagplug na cellnumber.
But I guess, soemtimes it’s the fault naman of the RR users. Ninanakaw mga kung anong puwedeng manakaw, sinisira ang puwedeng masira. Siyempre kung ikaw ang admin, magsasawa ka rin. It’s a matter of “you get what you deserve”
Oh ha. with entertainment pa!
September 5, 2006 @ 11:21 am
Interesting blog entry.. Extinct na dito sa Pinas ang malilinis na restroom. Ito yung side ng Pinoy na hindi maganda.. Hindi natin pinapahalagahan ang good hygiene. :confused:
September 11, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
I KNOW!!! I especially hate it when we have to put up with dirty, disgusting gas station lavatories during trips to baguio
September 12, 2006 @ 8:07 am
You never fail to surprise me with such awesome entries. Hahaha~!
I hate it too when the floor is wet…I mean, who doesn’t? Who knows what’s in the liquid you’re stepping on? 
September 12, 2006 @ 9:54 pm
hey hey there christian .
thanks thanks a lot for droppin by my site. and im so so sorry for not reading your entire entry cuz im currently eating.. champorado. :eek:
i’ll read your next blogs promise. LOL.
take care and have a great week
♥ nika