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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The grocery store nearest to us recently started locking their restroom so you have to find an employee to unlock it for you. I’ll be shopping at the other grocery store a little further away a lot more now because of this. [/quote]

Really?  How often do you have to use the bathroom in the middle of grocery shopping?[/quote]

NP.  When I was super pregnant and needed to pee every half hour or so, I used the grocery store bathroom regularly.  That being said, I *don't* think every single business everywhere needs to provide public restrooms.  Food service should, but I don't expect it of anyone else.  That being said, I have generally found that grocery stores, big box stores (Target, etc), libraries, museums, and hotels almost always have public bathrooms.  In most other countries there are regularly available public restrooms you have to pay to use (yes, they're often disgusting but sometimes that's what you have to live with).  I don't see why it's a big drama that the nursery doesn't have a public bathroom.  The cost of the plants is irrelevant -- I would expect Walmart and McDonald's (the cheapest of the cheap) to have bathrooms before a high end jewellery store or one of the artsy clothing boutiques.

[b]Frankly, I astonished by the number of people who have not mentally planned out of the house bathroom usage (for toddlers or as a tourist or whatever) consistently enough to know where you can and can't find public bathrooms[/b].[/quote]

This. I've worked in both retail and food service and I've been pregnant and a parent, and I've had GI issues. I understand the need. But of course not EVERY SINGLE STORE can provide a bathroom. Many do, and when you are in a situation to need one regularly, you just figure out what those stores are and plan outings around them.

When my kids were really small, we almost exclusively used the big box chain bookstore near us instead of the cute little independent bookstore down the street, even though if I were going to bookstores on my own, I'd go to the indie one. But the big box one had a bathroom, and more space for the kids to run around. When I was pregnant, I only went to the nice Wegmans or Whole Foods in part because they have much nicer, cleaner bathrooms than the Harris Teeter near my house. When I have had GI problems, I've planned my whole schedule around access to a bathroom, including rescheduling a vacation because I didn't want to be in the situation of needing a bathroom and not knowing where to find one.

This is life.[/quote]

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