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.
