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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Greater Greater Washington wants to see more public parks given over to homeless toilets and, yes, housing.[/quote]

Yes, because homeless people are the only people who would ever potentially have to use a restroom in a park. o.O[/quote]

This particular toilet is in an area where normal people could easily fine an alternative - like a grocery store or restaurant. [/quote]

Do you habitually walk into random restaurants, where you are not a customer, and ask to use their restroom? How does that go for you?[/quote]

Are you claiming you never walked into a Starbucks or any other number of places, used the bathroom and walked out?  [/quote]

Do you do this when the sign says NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS or RESTROOMS FOR CUSTOMERS ONLY?[/quote]

Yeah..I spend enough money at Starbucks that I don’t feel bad if I am not buying something on that one occasion.[/quote]

What do you do? Pick the locks? Shove your way in?[/quote]

What are you talking about?  Most don’t need a key, but if they do I go ask for it and they give it to you (or code).[/quote]

I'm talking about places where the sign says NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS or RESTROOMS FOR CUSTOMERS ONLY. What do you do at those places? You just go and use the restroom anyway and nobody bothers you? You go and ask for the key or code and they give it to you?[/quote]

Yes.  So you need a tutorial on how the world works?[/quote]

I'm happy this strategy works for you, but please recognize the reality that there are plenty of people whom this strategy does not work for.[/quote]

[b]And PP not using the bathroom in these places will not change anything for those people.[/b]

If you have a story about someone being barred from using the bathroom at a McDonald’s or wherever, please share it here so people can avoid that location.[/quote]

Huh? Nobody said it would.

The problem is that lots of people who need access to restrooms in public places don't have access to restrooms in public places. "I never have this problem, why can't you just do what I do?" does not address this problem. Crowdsourcing McDonaldses that bar the people from the restrooms, or hassle people, also does not address this problem.[/quote]

[b]What do you want people who use these restrooms for free to do?[/b] Tell me explicitly.

Also, fwiw, I have literally never seen any type of person turned away from a fast food bathroom. There’s not an employee checking for a receipt at the door. [/quote]

Understand that plenty of people who also need restrooms do not have the ability to do what these people are fortunate to be able to do.

"Nobody has ever stopped me from using a restroom" is pretty close to "If they don't have bread, why don't they eat cake?"[/quote]

If people are so dysfunctional that they cannot step into Trader Joes to use the bathroom, then they should probably be institutionalized. [/quote]

It should go without saying that there needs to be a Trader Joe's for you to be able to use a restroom in one, and also that there are a lot of places in D.C. where there isn't a Trader Joe's.

Where there is a Trader Joe's in D.C., I don't know what the restroom policies are, and you probably don't know either.[/quote]

The one I’m talking about is across the street from a TJs. [/quote]

You are welcome to use the restroom at Trader Joe's, if you wish. Nobody is forcing you to use the restroom you're complaining about.[/quote]

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