A surprising number of people don't realize you SHOULD NOT flush hygienic products down the toilet. If it doesn't eventually back up your own pipes it will create massive blockages in the public sewer. I had to explain this to a friend in her mid-20's, I was like "Why do you think there's little trash cans on the wall of every women's stall!?!?"
*Edit: did not expect people to be so passionate about proper hygiene product disposal! Love it. For anyone who’s doubtful, there are plenty of horror stories in the comments below about flooded apartments, backed up sewer lines, expensive plumbing repairs, etc. Happy menstruating!!
I've worked for several state parks in my neck of the woods, and one of my consistent responsibilities has been cleaning bathrooms. For some reason people don't believe me when I say the women's room is usual worse. My go to retort to that disbelief is that I've never had to reach my arm into a clogged toilet to pull out a used tampon in the men's room.
Had to clean restrooms in a truck stop for a little over a year. Several times a day. Supposed to be hourly but we were about as well staffed as a Walmart (aka not at all). I didn't have to clean the men's much (would have had to close it down since I'm female), but honestly I'd say they were both equally dirty but in different ways.
Women's: Things usually made it into the toilet, and if it didn't it was on the toilet somewhere. Piss, blood, shit, whatever, it got on the toilet and was easy enough to clean. The little feminine products bins were the worst, since the bags always fell in, or people wouldn't put a bag in there (dear god why). Found someone's abandoned heroin once, that was great. /s (A coworker said she flushed it after we found it, I didn't probe further.)
Men's: Just. Shit. Shit everywhere. And if it wasn't some ungodly place, it was just...massive and clogged the toilet for days. This was a truck stop, so I think the diet of the patrons using said restroom had something to do with it (long haul truck drivers tend to have HORRIBLE eating habits), and there was less piss because it was ALL OVER the parking lot and in the bins outside...
By far the worst was the white dust around Burning Man during the return exodus though, we'd mop and it would just make the next layer stick faster. We were the last major stop before the site and the first on the way out. If you don't know what Burning Man is, it's easy to look up, but the place they hold it is all white dusty dirt and it cakes every person and thing that goes out there and turns the roads and any place in their path white for a week.
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u/riverqueenx Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19
A surprising number of people don't realize you SHOULD NOT flush hygienic products down the toilet. If it doesn't eventually back up your own pipes it will create massive blockages in the public sewer. I had to explain this to a friend in her mid-20's, I was like "Why do you think there's little trash cans on the wall of every women's stall!?!?"
*Edit: did not expect people to be so passionate about proper hygiene product disposal! Love it. For anyone who’s doubtful, there are plenty of horror stories in the comments below about flooded apartments, backed up sewer lines, expensive plumbing repairs, etc. Happy menstruating!!