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Thread Number: 90320
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| Post# 1148893 , Reply# 1 5/17/2022 at 13:45 (722 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
There is a saying “the customer is always right”, NOT in my book! If I were there and saw that careless person spill detergent on the front of the machine, I’d give them a talking since you don’t treat a business or companies equipment/machines like that. The owner of that laundry factory or laundromat wouldn’t be too thrilled if they saw someone spill detergent on the front of the machine and just left it there.
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Post# 1148894 , Reply# 2 5/17/2022 at 13:53 (722 days old) by chachp  (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Post# 1148899 , Reply# 3 5/17/2022 at 14:44 (722 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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It’s just free detergent | ||
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Post# 1148907 , Reply# 4 5/17/2022 at 16:32 (722 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Maybe make them request detergent at the desk and then have a clerk accompany them to the machine. | ||
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Post# 1148908 , Reply# 5 5/17/2022 at 16:53 (722 days old) by parunner58 (Davenport, FL) |
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I worked at the Disney Resorts in Florida for 10 years. From the value all the way up to the Deluxe Grand Floridian. These spills happen multiple times a day. Disney's laundry's have cameras and room key only access, guests do not care. Spills include coffee, soda, ice cream, popcorn, puke(especially from when I worked at the convention resorts) Convention guests were the worst, next in line were the Wedding Guests, and other bodily fluids. I have seen families throw their dirty stinky diapers out in the hallways. I could see not wanting to leave it in the room, but at least walk it down to the trash can at the end of the hall. I know exactly what Cameron is talking about. You should see the rooms after the most of the sport/cheer/dance groups leave. Trash all over the place, holes in the walls, food smashed on the tables and counters. When I worked at the Grand FLoridian, we had a Group of College Interns from a very big accounting firm that brings them to Disney for their final testing. Their was a girl that left her purse size companion dog walk all over the tables in the quick service restaurant. WHen asked to no do that, she replied "I can let my dog do what ever it wants to, It's my therapy dog"
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| Post# 1148947 , Reply# 6 5/18/2022 at 00:53 (721 days old) by Smartdrive1100 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) | ||
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Post# 1148975 , Reply# 8 5/18/2022 at 10:52 (721 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington NC) |
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OH the JOYS of working in a hotel! | ||
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Post# 1148977 , Reply# 10 5/18/2022 at 11:02 (721 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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There has always been a certain percentage of the public that don’t give a sh*t about anyone but themselves, but nowadays its increased tremendously.
I worked in beauty shops all during the 70’s and early 80’s, and most of them only had one restroom that the staff and customers shared. They were unisex and most of our clientele were women, especially during the first half of the 70’s. Let me tell you, women who are always making a point about of what pigs men are, are some of the worst pigs you can imagine. Some of the messes that I would see in those unisex restrooms were just disgusting! And they were ALL made by women. For instance, there was always urine on the toilet seats because madam would squat over the seat rather than sit or use a Texas Top Hat to cover the toilet seat. I think that some of them may have thought that this was one bathroom that they wouldn’t have to clean and acted accordingly. Eddie This post was last edited 05/18/2022 at 14:49 | ||
| Post# 1148990 , Reply# 11 5/18/2022 at 14:40 (721 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
"but nowadays its increased tremendously."
That's a big understatement. I never would have guessed things would be this bad 25 years ago. I was chatting up with a female janitor at my work about 20 years ago and she said she'd clean 20 male restrooms before having to clean one female restroom. Really caught me off guard back in my young and ignorant days. | ||
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Post# 1149004 , Reply# 12 5/18/2022 at 18:22 (720 days old) by SudsMaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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I started doing my own laundry when I was about 12. We had moved to Stanyan Street in SF, a few doors away from a laundromat. It didn't take long to figure it out. Then we found a flat up the hill with a Frigidaire "Unimatic"pulsating washer in the ground floor garage/basement area. That was fun to watch, but not all of us understood its quirks. I loved that thang.
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| Post# 1149005 , Reply# 13 5/18/2022 at 18:29 (720 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Now here’s something that REALLY irritates me, people get a new car (which is a more than likely a lease) and a few months or years after it’s bought, the interior is completely trashed and full of garbage and crumbs and other miscellaneous junk that’s accumulated inside the interior of the vehicle. Probably don’t maintain their cars too. If people are going to lease vehicles, they should try to make a effort to at least clean the inside of the interior since after all you are basically renting a car with a lease. If you were the landlord and were renting a house or property out, and the whole place was trashed and cluttered within a few months to a year, would you be thrilled? Absolutely not. Just like renting your car out for a few weeks, you wouldn’t be thrilled if the fools who rented it turned it into a dumpster in that short amount of time they had it.
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| Post# 1149430 , Reply# 16 5/24/2022 at 15:54 (715 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama) | ||
 @Mike The therapy/service dog excuse makes me livid. I had a service dog for about five years. The Americans with Disabilities Act's refusal to create a national service dog ID or certification has done a tremendous disservice to merchants. Merchants are allowed to ask if your animal is a service animal and what the animal does for you. There is no "official" ID, and if you have one, you probably ordered it from the internet. The idea was to maintain the privacy of the service animal's handler, but once those of us with mental illness or PTSD describe what our animals do, we have essentially told the merchant the nature of our disability.
Unfortunately, merchants are cowed by the risks of refusing accommodation to someone who claims theirs is a service animal. Few realize that they can refuse access to any animal that is not displaying the behavioral standards of a service animal. People with therapy/emotional support animals have more limited access. A dog walking on a dining table could be removed on the grounds of behavior.
A good friend of mine used to rent a room in her house. She complained of her tenant's "service" dog peeing on the floor and damaging the property. I explained that she did not have to accommodate the dog because it was not behaving to service dog standards. She was afraid not to.
@Eddie I was part of a group of women who lunched together regularly. I was obese and one of the first to have children. It always seemed kind of simple to me. If you're going to sit on the seat, leave it down. If you are going to hover, lift it up. A few women in the group said that they hovered but shouldn't have to lift up the seat because it was dirty and they didn't want to touch it. I argued that it is basic courtesy to not pee on the seat or wipe it off because there are many people who don't have the option to hover--elderly people with arthritis, obese people and small children to name a few. Interestingly, once they started having children, they all changed their tune.
@Cameron and other folks who maintain laundries, would limiting detergents to pods only help?
@Mike, I'm very sorry about your grandchildren's behavior. It's extremely difficult to see bad behavior in a family member and be powerless to do anything about it. Loving your grandchildren unconditionally, modeling good behavior and setting appropriate limits when you can could change their lives. My mother was a poor example on many levels. As I matured, I sought role models who could help me become a better person. I hope your grandchildren do the same.
I will say that there are ways to discipline children without hitting them. I tried spanking my older son a few times, but he was as hard headed as I am. I could have spanked him until I killed him, and he still wouldn't have stopped or apologized.
Please beware of painting an entire generation with the same brush. My young adult sons and their friends are kind, considerate, socially aware and concerned about the environment. They are so much better than I was at their age and amaze me every day.
Sarah
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Post# 1149503 , Reply# 19 5/25/2022 at 11:00 (714 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Sarah,
the thing that annoyed me the most about the urine on toilet seats in these beauty shop restrooms was that all my life I’ve heard women complaining about men peeing on the toilet seat! My Mom taught my brother and I to leave the toilet seat up, which we always did. In fact the toilet seat in my Mom’s home and my home always has the seat up. We put it down when necessary. And we wipe off the rim of the bowl before flushing if there are any stray drops on it.
Then about 25 years ago one of my adult nieces complained about this! She doesn't want to have to put the seat down when she wants to use the toilet. So get this, she required her husband and three sons to sit when urinating so she wouldn’t have to put the seat down herself! Once when we were all on a hike in the woods her youngest son who was 7 at the time was completely flummoxed when he had to pee standing up in the woods, he didn’t know how to! I give up, you just can’t please some people! But I do commend you for your simple solution to just leave the seat up and squat in a public restroom. You get a star for this! But it wasn’t just the urine on the toilet seats in these restrooms that was a problem. The failure to properly dispose of menstrual pads and tampons, plus the blood that was also sometimes left on the seat was the last straw. No one can tell me that a woman can’t see that she’s left red drips on the seat when she gets up from it. It’s just common courtesy to clean this up before you leave. I’ve seldom seen a mens restroom as filthy as some of those unisex restrooms in places I worked in. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1149508 , Reply# 20 5/25/2022 at 12:08 (714 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 I always sit on the toilet for urination, per a previous discussion started by me. Urine splatters on the seat isn't the only effect of standing. It also splatters on the walls beside the toilet and drips on the floor in front. I stayed for a week last year with friends (two males). The yellow, varyingly dried and wet-sticky mess on the floor in front of both toilets was gnasty. | ||
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Post# 1149520 , Reply# 21 5/25/2022 at 14:13 (714 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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my pet peeve That's my pet peeve of people misusing detergent or the machine to begin with. | ||
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Post# 1149526 , Reply# 22 5/25/2022 at 15:41 (714 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Among litany of reasons now avoid launderettes like plague is washers with dispensers caked with liquid detergent or FS residue. Oh and joys don't end just there either.
Detergent placed in fabric softener section of dispenser seems to happen fairly regularly at one located in our area. On rare occasions one is forced by circumstances to use washers (items too big/bulky for any of my European washing machines), have resorted to bringing rags and paper towels. Donning latex gloves thoroughly check and if necessary clean out dispenser sections. | ||
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Post# 1150103 , Reply# 25 6/2/2022 at 12:32 (706 days old) by SudsMaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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My solution has been to pee, standing, into a plastic urine colleciton flask (like they might give one in a hospital), and then dump that into the toilet (seat up or down). It keeps the splatter off the walls and floor (not that I noticed any), at least for the master bath.
The guest bath might be a different story, but it's been a few years since anyone used that one. Then there's always the back garden. | ||
| Post# 1150372 , Reply# 26 6/5/2022 at 21:38 (702 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama) | ||
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Oh, my, pee and bathrooms
Yep, even when men don't miss, there is still splatter.
I tried to train my crew to put the seat and lid down every time they finish. Everyone, men and women, has to put the lid down. No women who forget to look fall in or end up sitting on the rim. (And for those with dogs, it keeps the dog from deciding the toilet bowl is the tastiest water in the house. The public laundry situation...is there any way to win? I've confessed before that I"m a pretty terrible house keeper. Especially when the kids were small, I would go to the laundry mat when our laundry piled up because I could knock out a bunch of loads simultaneously. This coming week, I'm going to be hand washing our down comforter in the bath tub to avoid the public laundry. Sarah | ||
| Post# 1151592 , Reply# 28 6/18/2022 at 16:26 (690 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama) | ||
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Horrifying carpeted bathrooms | ||
| Post# 1151594 , Reply# 29 6/18/2022 at 16:40 (690 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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We had those here in the US as well.
Grew up with the downstairs 1/4 bathroom having it. It was a WTF moment when we moved in, in 1985. It was removed shortly after but the original 1970 green shag carpet throughout the rest of the house remained until 1995 against my mothers wishes because my brother and I loved it and my dad was cheap.
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