Public Toilets - Not for the Queasy to Read

Want to know what annoys the crap out of (and sometimes back up into) me? People who don't show common courtesy in public toilets. That includes the toilet shared by 100+ employees of my office.

The top items from my list of annoyances can all be avoided if the person in the toilet ahead of me would just look at what she just did. (I say she since I would almost always be in a women's toilet - unless I'm drunk at a bar on a Hash pub crawl - then all bets are off.)

So what's my list? Here are some high points: (Note: I am now directing my comments to the unknown masses guilty of all the discourtesies listed below. I have not completely forgotten my grammar/literary teachings.)

1-water puddles on the sink. If you take that paper towel you just used to dry your hands, and dry off the counter before you walk away, the next person up doesn't set her valuables (purse, cell phone, etc.) down in your puddle. Simple common courtesy. I bet you'd be ticked if you sat your cell phone down in the water someone else left behind. Take 1/2 second to think about it, then another 1 1/2 seconds to wipe it up!

2-hair in/on the sink area from someone who combed her hair. I don't want to look at your hair in the sink. I don't want to look at my hair in the sink. I want to see your hair on your head, and my hair on my head. If the hair won't stay there, it should be wiped up and thrown away. It does not belong in the sink.

3-used paper towels that missed the trashcan and were left on the floor where they landed. This is not a basketball game. There is not a young person hanging around just waiting for you to drop the ball so they can pick it up. Pick up your own blasted trash and throw it away!

4-drops of pee on the floor, seat, rim, etc. Um, OK. If you are so afraid to touch your own pee with a wad off tissue, what in the world makes you think anyone else wants to touch it? There is toilet paper right there in the stall for mopping up the mess, and then a sink with soap, water and paper towels with which to clean your hands. Use all of the above and quite peeing on the seat. With a hole as big as that, there's no reason you can't make it inside unless you are standing on top of the seat trying to hose the whole stall down. WTF?

5-incompletely flushed toilets. You know you pooped. You may have hit the toggle for the toilet to flush, but that doesn't mean the toilet is going to take in everything you deposited on the first try. Look behind yourself before you walk out of the stall and make sure all your stuff is gone. I do not want to look at your poop.

6-pads or tampons tossed in the trash/feminine product basket unwrapped. You know you bled. I don't care that you bled. I don't want to see your blood. There's toilet paper right there in the stall where you changed your product. Wrap it up before you toss it in the trash.