School does not supply toilet paper

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<p>^^^^^ Lol :)</p>

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<p>Didn’t read this the last few days–who knew it turned into the most entertaining thread on CC??</p>

<p>Let me throw my vote with the “no toilet seat covers, no rug around toilet” crowd. A rug in front of the bathtub to step on is nice, but around the toilet, kind of yecch to me. You’d have to wash them constantly, and that’s excess use of energy and water (and i’m a conservationist nut, so I woudln’t, so it would just be a bad scene all around, LOL).</p>

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<p>Okay. But with no mat in front of the toilet, then you have to wash the floor. Those germs are going somewhere. Definitely no seat cover though.</p>

<p>On the other hand, I’m a no placemat or tablecloth person. The mess never stays on the mat, so then I have to wash down the table AND the mat. No aprons either. Same reason.</p>

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<p>Folks do know that urine is a mild antiseptic, I hope.</p>

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<p>Not to be gross, mini, you are right about the antiseptic properties of urine, but dried urine smells terrible and can make the atmosphere of the bathroom very unpleasant. In my opinion, it’s easier to wash it off a floor than wash a rug every time there is a spill.</p>

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<p>Yup, Mini, I do. Just don’t see any reason to put collection material out for it.</p>

<p>(and believe me, with my cleaning standards–or lack of them, the less objects collecting mess, the better!)</p>

<p>Plus, like I said, more objects to clean, means more waste of natural resources.</p>

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<p>“Folks do know that urine is a mild antiseptic, I hope.”</p>

<p>And potable in a pinch as well. Eskimos collected it and made use of for tanning and cleaning purposes. I will pass on it as an aperitif myself unless I find myself stranded in the desert or stuck on a life raft.</p>

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<p>For those who are some squeamish about youths and dirty bathrooms I can only recommend spending more time at Forest Service campgrounds or Boy Scout camps that do not have flush toilets. Nothing – and I mean nothing – now frightens me about public bathrooms, let alone a private bathroom with indifferent maintenance. </p>

<p>I could tell you a story about a pit toilet being used by 30 people on a snow camp on a sub-freezing weekend that would … well. It wouldn’t make it on Dirty Jobs but it was pretty disgusting. I can tell you for sure that frozen urine is pretty slippery.</p>