Retail business without public restroom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In some downtown areas of cities, there are basically no public bathrooms in businesses, and where there are, you must show that you bought something AND request a key or passcode for the bathroom door.

I asked an employee where the restroom was and she told me they had no public restroom, not even for customers spending hundreds on plants. Not even a restroom with passcode.
This was in Alexandria, VA.

If you would have discreetly said it was an emergency, I assume an employee would have let you use their restroom. Especially since you were spending hundreds of dollars -- you're clearly not some druggie.

[Anonymous]

Urinary leash in practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some states have Ally's law for certain medical conditions. But generally no restrooms in public establishments unless they serve food. Even then they can say customers only.

I do wonder how you got this far in life without knowing this.

Same. So many people are just mind-numbingly stupid.

[Anonymous]

We have disposable portable urinals in the car trunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s legal, and stupid. I was at a niche type store making a similarly large purchase when my then-4yo said he had to go #2 NOW! I asked and they said they couldn’t accommodate. It all happened so fast and before we could get out the door to the car he let it all out all over the carpet. I had a boy covered in excrement and they still wouldn’t let me use the restroom. So not only did they lose out on the sale, they had a crappy mess to clean on the carpet.

It sounds like your son was sick. If he had so little control over his bowels, it's very likely he would have crapped all over their bathroom, too. At least in this case, he had clothes on which likely captured most of it.

Be honest: if your son had crapped on the floor of the their bathroom, how much effort would you have put into cleaning it up? Or would you have thought, "eh, I'm sure they pay someone to clean this" and left?

It's an unfortunate anecdote but actually doesn't change the equation for most businesses at all. There is little to no benefit to providing a bathroom and there are huge downsides.

THIS THIS THIS. Would you have been happy if you'd been met leaving the bathroom with an employee handing you cleaning supplies and requesting you to clean up after your son? I bet not. But it isn't their job to clean up your kid's shit.

Well, it was when he shit on the carpet and we left. They also had to put away my cart full of stuff I had to abandon.

You should have cleaned up after him.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s legal, and stupid. I was at a niche type store making a similarly large purchase when my then-4yo said he had to go #2 NOW! I asked and they said they couldn’t accommodate. It all happened so fast and before we could get out the door to the car he let it all out all over the carpet. I had a boy covered in excrement and they still wouldn’t let me use the restroom. So not only did they lose out on the sale, they had a crappy mess to clean on the carpet.

It sounds like your son was sick. If he had so little control over his bowels, it's very likely he would have crapped all over their bathroom, too. At least in this case, he had clothes on which likely captured most of it.

Be honest: if your son had crapped on the floor of the their bathroom, how much effort would you have put into cleaning it up? Or would you have thought, "eh, I'm sure they pay someone to clean this" and left?

It's an unfortunate anecdote but actually doesn't change the equation for most businesses at all. There is little to no benefit to providing a bathroom and there are huge downsides.

THIS THIS THIS. Would you have been happy if you'd been met leaving the bathroom with an employee handing you cleaning supplies and requesting you to clean up after your son? I bet not. But it isn't their job to clean up your kid's shit.

Well, it was when he shit on the carpet and we left. They also had to put away my cart full of stuff I had to abandon.

You should have cleaned up after him.

DP

Nope. They can do that. They created the situation that caused there to be sh!t all over the carpet to begin with, by refusing a paying customer access to the readily accessible bathroom for employees.

This wasn’t some non-customer rando off the street, this was a person presumably spending a sizable amount of cash. The employees should’ve had the brains to exercise some discretion. Instead, they stuck with their inflexible, stupid no exceptions policy. And as a result, they lost a large sale, a repeat customer , and had to clean up poop.


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