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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear you. I have family members with IBS and have been part of many family dramas when people who needed bathrooms urgently couldn't get them in a timely manner while running errands.

Also, state of Maryland, people driving on rural roads to your Civil War battlefields might need bathrooms if theyre little kids, elderly, or have IBS!!! Thanks for nothing for an especially traumatic road trip years ago when we discovered MD gas stations don't usually keep bathrooms public and have absolutely no mercy.[/quote]

It shouldn't be on individual businesses to shoulder the burden, though. It's a public good. The expectation that all small businesses should maintain a restroom for public use, keep that restroom clean and in working order no matter how many people might stop to use it, is unreasonable.

There is a lot of technology now that would enable municipalities and counties to serve this public need by maintaining portable bathrooms for public use. It could even create jobs and businesses if governments invested in this, because you would need to hire people to maintain them and also more companies would go into the business if it they knew they had a customer for it. The technology would improve further (as it is, the technological advancements are largely driven by government investments in Asia and Europe, where this is viewed as a public health and sanitation issue).

But getting mad because some tiny gas station in the middle of nowhere isn't maintaining a bathroom for you doesn't make sense. I say that as a parent who has had to stop many times and been rejected from place even as my toddler literally peed on himself. It sucks. But it's not the fault of the business (nor the employee who is just following company policy).[/quote]

None of this sounds reasonable. [/quote]

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