PEEVES in BATHROOMS ››
When the lotion bottle suddenly has some sort of moisturizing diarrhea all over everything
You want a little bit of lotion, but no, first it won't come out at all, and then it ALL comes rushing out everywhere. What do you do with all of that lotion? Offer to "share" with strangers? Try to put it back in the bottle? Go soothe the chafed skin of the entire population of a third world country?
— Rachel from utah | Bathrooms | 9.15.2010 | Comments (4)
Bathroom attendants at restaurants/clubs.
Thanks, how about wiping my ass or even taking the shit for me?
— Petes Pet Peeves from Brooklyn | Bathrooms | 1.5.2010 | Comments (2)
Rolls of toilet paper in which the size and weight to tensile strength ratio renders it impossible to dispense the paper in the usual manner (ie: pull on the end, roll turns, paper advances).
This is a serious design flaw. Either make the toilet paper thicker and stronger or distribute it in smaller rolls. If I have to manually turn the roll while exerting the most delicate pull on the business end of the toilet paper lest I pull off millions of unusable half squares, it sorta defeats the purpose of putting it on a roll and spindle in the first place, no?
— fatasianbaby from brooklyn | Bathrooms | 4.8.2010 | Comments (5)
— aleks g from brooklyn, ny | Bathrooms | 5.27.2009 | Comments (2)
When a co-worker talks to me while going to the bathroom
You walk into the ladies room at the same time, say hello, and then your co-worker (or boss) continues to talk to you about work while going to the bathroom. It's called a bathroom "break" for a reason. Please don't speak to me while you're peeing.
— iSarah from Manchester, NH | Bathrooms | 2.20.2009 | Comments (1)
Having to get up to pee
When it is cold and you're warm in bed, everything is perfect except for the bladder you have to empty. And you have dreams where this is somehow done for you, only to drift out of them and realize you have to do it yourself.
— M. Chavez from | Bathrooms | 10.7.2008 | Comments (1)
Being ignored by motion-sensor devices in public bathrooms
Toilets, faucets, paper towel dispensers, they all treat me like I'm invisible or motionless, when I am actually standing in front of them, flopping my hands around trying to trigger them so I can get the hell out of there.
— Vagina Jones from Aberdeen, washington | Bathrooms | 2.17.2009 | Comments (2)
A bar of handsoap sitting in a pool of water.
— Nebert Rodriguez from Lunch, Nebraska | Bathrooms | 3.9.2009 | Comments (2)
A warm toilet seat
Although not on par with the offensiveness of hair, piss, menstrual blood, or feces on the toilet seat, warmth is nevertheless an unwelcome indicator of the prior user's leisurely experience. It's doubly gross because usually a warm seat is paired with stink/skid marks from the prior user. The combo of tactile, visual, and olfactory proof is all too sensually overwhelming.
— Hairnette Funicello from aberdeen, washington | Bathrooms | 5.12.2009 | Comments (3)
Public bathroom stall doors opening to the inside.
It seems that all public bathroom stall doors open to the inside. When I'm at an airport and I have a big carry-on bag, it's incredibly awkward to get in the stall because the door practically hits the toilet and there's no room for me to get in.
— Marla from New York, NY | Bathrooms | 7.9.2010 | Comments (6)
Auto flush before poo inspection.
When the auto flush in a public bathroom flushes and sucks your poo away before you've had a chance to look at it. There might be some clue that you're deathly ill, but you'll never know it thanks to the auto flush.
— jmc from san francisco | Bathrooms | 11.28.2008 | Comments (4)
Disappointingly small bowel movements.
— vagina jones from | Bathrooms | 8.24.2009 | Comments (4)
Doorknobs in public bathrooms.
— Jesse Ball from To the Moon | Bathrooms | 10.22.2009 | Comments (5)
Women who sit stone still, quiet as a mouse, for excessive periods of time waiting to be the only person in the bathroom before taking a dump.
Is this intended to prevent the rest of us from discovering that she too has bowel movements? I was never fooled.
— j-mac from san fransisco | Bathrooms | 6.1.2009 | Comments (8)
— carrie g from | Bathrooms | 8.18.2009 | Comments (0)
When someone takes the urinal next to you, despite any number of other urinal choices.
— Jesse Ball from 23 Rue De l'Amandier | Bathrooms | 7.20.2009 | Comments (2)
Moist bathroom key return.
When someone returns to you the bathroom key you have lent him/her, and it is WET. Not very wet, just moist, like it's been hiding in fecund, swampy earth recently. I'm not a germ phobe, but that crosses some serious lines.
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Bathrooms | 4.7.2010 | Comments (0)
Talking to me while I'm taking a dump.
I'm taking a dump, can we talk later?
You walk in to the men's room, see someone you know and exchange pleasantries. Ok fine. Once I enter the bathroom stall to drop a deuce, please, I'm begging you, STOP TALKING TO ME. You can't ignore the person or hide. All you can do is sit there, feeling helpless and awkwardly responding to their inane thoughts and questions.
— Guess from | Bathrooms | 1.1.2010 | Comments (3)
