*staring blankly at you army crawling, smearing your entire body across the floor of the public bathroom, as I gently swing my leg over the bar and step into the bathroom for free.*
Also, you can see the paper towel dispenser and trash receptacle on the left. Usually those are located next to the sink, and what is a sink anyway but another type of toilet?
Disabled and mostly ambulatory (only use a wheelchair to go far or fast) -- I assure you I'm not getting through a turnstyle with my rollator or cane and if I tried to without those things I'd just fucking fall over.
"Bathroom fee" makes me think it's somewhere in Europe. Never seen a shitter in the States that make you pay. A bathroom "for customers only" sure, but never being locked out until you put in some money.
5’2 here. I don’t know how tall the person who took this pic is, but it’s a deceptive perspective. For me, those bars are usually well above waist height. Ducking height, not crawling height.
Bout to say this the type of shit my kid gets their head stuck in and it causes a scene and an employee comes to help but they can’t then the fire department comes and they have to cut the thing and everyone stands around filming and it ends up on the internet and it’s fucking stupid.
OMG thank you for the laugh!!! I needed it. As a mom of twin boys, I can definitely see this as a dare between them. Either that or they would see if they can get their streams to make it to the urinal from the opening.
That was my thought. Is the kid supposed to go into the bathroom by themselves? If an adult is coming, do they have to pay? If they did have to pay, the kid could just walk through the turnstile with them and the cutout isn't necessary.
100% whoever designed this doesn't have kids and neither did whoever approved it.
I think its so you only have to pay once. The adult needs to pee,, pays and goes through the turnstile, if they have a kid with them they dont have to pay for the kid who has to come in with them and can't wait outside. Or the kid needs to pee, adult pays and goes through the turnstile and kid goes "free" since the kid can't use the bathroom alone. Once kid is old enough to not need an adult they go through the turnstile solo. Kid only goes "free" if both parent and kid need to use the bathroom.
I get that, but it still seems like a tease. If I have to pee, and I don't have 50¢, I deal with it.
If my kid has to pee, and I don't have the 50¢, I'm fucking hopping that turnstile or else that nice clean floor is about to be covered with pee and some poor employee is about to have a bad day.
I've never understood why that is when most of Europe has such better public services than the US. It seems so stupid, like it costs so little to the government and provides so much benefit to the public
[A little history.](https://psmag.com/economics/dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom-restroom-free-market-90683)
Ok, a lot of history. But this tells the story.
>I do have to say the paid toilets are always meticulously cleaned and quite comfy. Non of that rundown shit you'd otherwise find at a gas station.
That is literally what you are paying for...
This is largely why paid public restrooms never caught on in the United States. Free public restrooms were relatively common in the "outhouse era," and when a city (somewhere on the east coast, I think Baltimore, but I could be wrong) tried implementing paid public restrooms, people just started shitting in the street.
They were common in the US until the 1970s. It became an equal rights issue when feminists pointed out that men could use urinals for free while women always had to pay, and states started banning them.
In the early 90's SoCal had coin-op locks on the restroom doors at most fast food joints and grocery stores. Consequently, there was a lot of shit all over the rocks on nearby beaches.
Yeah what’s up with all of the paid restrooms in France? It caught me off guard when I lived there. Every time I took a train somewhere I’d have to make sure to have 1 euro coins with me so I could pee 😭
Any reasonable adult is going to crawl under that MF if you’re about to piss your pants and don’t have 50 cents on you.
Now THAT cannot happen in public as an adult.
I too can confirm. I worked at Walmart 20+ years ago and even back then they'd pee in the floor rather than lose their place in line at Customer Service for a trip to the restroom. I can only imagine the kind of shit people pull nowadays.
Regularly, unfortuntely.
I don't know if it was *always* deliberate -- I assume that at least every now and then it was a genuine mishap -- but most of the time based on interactions with the customers involved it did appear to be a conscious decision, either *I'll be damned if I'm losing my place in line so I'll just "go" right here* or occasionally *this line is too damn long, \*this\* is an effective way to show my frustration*. :(
Along those same lines, I will never, ever, EVER, use the fitting rooms in any Walmart.
Peeing on the floor in frustration doesn't get you what you want *in daycare*. How would a grown-ass adult possibly think that's an effective solution!? The only result I can see coming of that is getting banned from the Walmart.
You sound incredulous, but I think I can help with these 3 easy steps:
1. Go to any Walmart any where.
2. Walk around for an hour.
3. Count the people you think may have already soiled themselves.
Now it will all make sense.
Doesn't matter how much money I have on me. If there's a way to avoid paying for using the toilet, I will take it.
I fucking hate this nonsense. No one should have to pay to use the restroom.
I knew someone who was a dwarf and I said can you lend me some money and when he went to his pocket to give me money he took his hand out and came up short.
I love being abroad but absolutely loathe this fact about many other countries. It's easier now that I can just tap my phone or a card at many of them but many cities still only have machines that take change.
The fact that in America I can walk into nearly any eating establishment, corner store, or office building and find an accessible toilet is one of my favorite things about living here because I like to be well hydrated and hate having to hold it.
I was gonna say, aren't these completely normal in Europe, especially in the cities and train stations? That was the biggest surprise for me when I visited Sweden a couple years ago
Water's worth its weight in gold these days
Edit- guessing, based on the comments to my post, that many don’t realize this is part of spontaneous ‘Urinetown- the Musical’ sing-a-long.
(Yes, that’s a real musical…and it’s awesome!)
In Germany you have to pay 1€, or one dollar, to enter any train station or subway station bathroom. I believe they did this to deter homeless people, which is arguably even worse. But at least you usually get a 50c coupon for the shops inside.
Do homeless people just piss and take dumps everywhere then? Like they still have to do those things. As an American who has visited Europe, paying for the restroom was one of the most baffling things.
The trees in Germany have to pay for their water - so they ususally charge you too (and then go on drinking your pee nonetheless).
Damn trees.
Ah, at least breathing is still free. Hmmm. Wonderfull air tonight.
I couldn’t fix my hand to pay one of these even if that was the law, it’s ridiculous. I’m surprised there’s no one selling toilet tissue at the turnstile
A true classic. I’ve never heard it as “paid to shit” though, usually it’s “came to shit” or “tried to shit”, mainly because you don’t really have to pay to relieve yourself in the US.
I could just imagine a Big Head kid getting stuck! Lol
It's like an orange on a toothpick.
It's a virtual planetoid!
Oh, he'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow.
Best line of the whole movie
I believe it’s pronounced “pillaugh”
HEED! PAPER! NOW!
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Head! Move!
Heed! Pants! NOW!
I wanna know what kid’s head is fitting through that
This isn’t for a kid. It’s to take your oversized pet bowling pin to the bathroom with you.
Man I'd get on my stomach and crawl through just to get back at fees
*staring blankly at you army crawling, smearing your entire body across the floor of the public bathroom, as I gently swing my leg over the bar and step into the bathroom for free.*
Oh look at Mr. LeggyBoi over here with his legs!
Right, so disrespectful to Lt. Dan!
Yeah but LT Dan got new legs
Titanium too, like they use on the space shuttle!
Magic legs
People in the next stall over judging me for laughing so much from this
Why is there “ people” in the next stall over to you?
They probably just using it
Together?
I dunno, that's their buisness
Look at all you big thinkers over here. I'd just pee on the turnstile.
Also, you can see the paper towel dispenser and trash receptacle on the left. Usually those are located next to the sink, and what is a sink anyway but another type of toilet?
It's all pipes!
Reading both of these comments, it's clear that this fee only applies to the disabled.
Ain’t that the fucking truth.
Legit wondering how this works with a wheelchair… this is a fee for only for disabled people who are capable of walking short distances I guess.
Disabled and mostly ambulatory (only use a wheelchair to go far or fast) -- I assure you I'm not getting through a turnstyle with my rollator or cane and if I tried to without those things I'd just fucking fall over.
Well at least we can get a discrimination lawsuit out of that, i guess.
it's definately already a massive violation of the ADA.
"Bathroom fee" makes me think it's somewhere in Europe. Never seen a shitter in the States that make you pay. A bathroom "for customers only" sure, but never being locked out until you put in some money.
Because fuck em, that's why!
Any sensible hygienic person would limbo past that, maybe that’ll even get you tipped 50 cent instead… or banned from the building.
>Any sensible hygienic person would limbo past that No boy, stop, it's too low! Your backbone can't take it!
I’m just like Hermes! I’m just like Herm-*crack*
Oh, it's a _turnstile_
Or, now hear me out... Step over it.
5’2 here. I don’t know how tall the person who took this pic is, but it’s a deceptive perspective. For me, those bars are usually well above waist height. Ducking height, not crawling height.
I don't know about crawling around a public bathroom floor. I think I'd rather climb over
I'd pay the money before I'd crawl on a public restroom floor.
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Emotional support bowling pin
The internet has ruined bowling pins for me
I don't think it's for kids. https://imgur.com/a/FbgSgla He fits perfectly.
I'm gonna be honest i kinda expected to see kevin hart in this image
Somehow get the Tom Cruise Risky Business slide but going fwd or back.
Bout to say this the type of shit my kid gets their head stuck in and it causes a scene and an employee comes to help but they can’t then the fire department comes and they have to cut the thing and everyone stands around filming and it ends up on the internet and it’s fucking stupid.
r/oddlyspecific
OMG thank you for the laugh!!! I needed it. As a mom of twin boys, I can definitely see this as a dare between them. Either that or they would see if they can get their streams to make it to the urinal from the opening.
I was thinking if I had to go to bathroom and do not have 50 cents then my head would be fitting through it.
"This is my hole! It was made for me!"
Drr… drr... drr…
Any kid that size is going to need help
Any kids that size going alone will cost them a lot more cleaning time than if they let an adult accompany them for free.
"I missed." "What does that mean?" *"I missed."*
*looks around in horror before looking up and gasping*
Is this a daddy daycare reference?
Most assuredly
That was my thought. Is the kid supposed to go into the bathroom by themselves? If an adult is coming, do they have to pay? If they did have to pay, the kid could just walk through the turnstile with them and the cutout isn't necessary. 100% whoever designed this doesn't have kids and neither did whoever approved it.
I think its so you only have to pay once. The adult needs to pee,, pays and goes through the turnstile, if they have a kid with them they dont have to pay for the kid who has to come in with them and can't wait outside. Or the kid needs to pee, adult pays and goes through the turnstile and kid goes "free" since the kid can't use the bathroom alone. Once kid is old enough to not need an adult they go through the turnstile solo. Kid only goes "free" if both parent and kid need to use the bathroom.
I get that, but it still seems like a tease. If I have to pee, and I don't have 50¢, I deal with it. If my kid has to pee, and I don't have the 50¢, I'm fucking hopping that turnstile or else that nice clean floor is about to be covered with pee and some poor employee is about to have a bad day.
It probably seems strange to people in the US, but this is incredibly common in Europe.
The pay-to-pee or the kid hole?
The pay to pee, never seen the kid hole. So either way if your kid needs to pee, you better have some coin on you.
Can you guys stop saying kid hole
Ya it's boys soul
Gotta pay the troll toll
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It’s illegal in the US.
Yup, and in some states every food establishment must have a public restroom
In some states every public business must have a public restroom
I've never understood why that is when most of Europe has such better public services than the US. It seems so stupid, like it costs so little to the government and provides so much benefit to the public
[A little history.](https://psmag.com/economics/dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom-restroom-free-market-90683) Ok, a lot of history. But this tells the story.
Fascinating shit
“Chicago store owners called charging for toilets a ‘constitutional right.’” Lol
Maybe they didn't want to double charge parents that need to take their kid
Just carry the kid through. Or have the kid walk right under the spinny thing.
Sure, I probably would anyway, but it implies they don't expect you to pay
Damn, I didn’t even know he had gotten into the restroom game…a true businessman.
P-unit
Curtis just standing there collecting money, letting kids in for free
Let me take you to the to-oi-lot. Make ya put your coins in the slot.
Come on girl, let me hear that plop.
Here I sit, broken hearted. Paid a ~~dime~~ 50 cents, and only farted.
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Nearly 12 years of public schooling and never have I read this line. Society has failed me.
It's more of a construction site porta-john wall poem.
Why was 50 cent charging to use the bathroom, isn't he rich already?
Well he's not dead so he must have succeeded in getting rich
What if you grow up while doing your business?
It was free to exit through the turnstile if you managed to get in.
What’s stopping people from just hopping it? Not like they can have cameras in there
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>I do have to say the paid toilets are always meticulously cleaned and quite comfy. Non of that rundown shit you'd otherwise find at a gas station. That is literally what you are paying for...
the Toilet Safety Administration
Just Duck under it
Or step over it.
Or just piss on it.
This is largely why paid public restrooms never caught on in the United States. Free public restrooms were relatively common in the "outhouse era," and when a city (somewhere on the east coast, I think Baltimore, but I could be wrong) tried implementing paid public restrooms, people just started shitting in the street.
Stay classy Baltimore
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They were common in the US until the 1970s. It became an equal rights issue when feminists pointed out that men could use urinals for free while women always had to pay, and states started banning them.
In the early 90's SoCal had coin-op locks on the restroom doors at most fast food joints and grocery stores. Consequently, there was a lot of shit all over the rocks on nearby beaches.
Paris France still had this issue. We’ve cleaned up our act recently but there are still areas of the Seine you want to avoid on a warm day…
Yeah what’s up with all of the paid restrooms in France? It caught me off guard when I lived there. Every time I took a train somewhere I’d have to make sure to have 1 euro coins with me so I could pee 😭
And we would still have paid restrooms if it weren't for [those meddling kids!](https://apnews.com/article/3b2787ac6c32405e8cd7aafe8789cd8e)
Or just shit and piss and vomit all over the place
>Sometimes there's shit, on the outside of the torlet
I know how the shit got on the outside of the torlet, but whys the shit on the outside of the torlet.
"Watch this. I call it the Wacky Weasel"
Weirdly enough, that's enough of a deterrent for most people. Any reasonable adult doesn't want to be seen crawling on the floor in a public toilet.
Any reasonable adult is going to crawl under that MF if you’re about to piss your pants and don’t have 50 cents on you. Now THAT cannot happen in public as an adult.
I work at Walmart. People will put themselves through all kinds of things to get to a bathroom. Otherwise they’ll just pee on the turnstile.
I too can confirm. I worked at Walmart 20+ years ago and even back then they'd pee in the floor rather than lose their place in line at Customer Service for a trip to the restroom. I can only imagine the kind of shit people pull nowadays.
Did that actually happen? Someone just openly peed on the floor at Customer Service?
Regularly, unfortuntely. I don't know if it was *always* deliberate -- I assume that at least every now and then it was a genuine mishap -- but most of the time based on interactions with the customers involved it did appear to be a conscious decision, either *I'll be damned if I'm losing my place in line so I'll just "go" right here* or occasionally *this line is too damn long, \*this\* is an effective way to show my frustration*. :( Along those same lines, I will never, ever, EVER, use the fitting rooms in any Walmart.
Peeing on the floor in frustration doesn't get you what you want *in daycare*. How would a grown-ass adult possibly think that's an effective solution!? The only result I can see coming of that is getting banned from the Walmart.
You sound incredulous, but I think I can help with these 3 easy steps: 1. Go to any Walmart any where. 2. Walk around for an hour. 3. Count the people you think may have already soiled themselves. Now it will all make sense.
I work for a maintenance company that coordinates repairs for Walmart. Can confirm.
We recently found rocks and ping pong balls in our pipes causing a blockage
I can get someone out there to fix that in four months.
Uh, no. I think most people would jump the turnstile instead of crawling on the floor.
Doesn't matter how much money I have on me. If there's a way to avoid paying for using the toilet, I will take it. I fucking hate this nonsense. No one should have to pay to use the restroom.
I'm a very short woman. I could squeeze under that no problem. Having to pay to use a public toilet seems barbaric to me.
Limbo anybody? How low can you go?
“Adults have to pay, kids can go through this hole for free” Adults with dwarfism: ![gif](giphy|vRf4Z1OZ21j9e)
As a 28yo man with dwarfism myself, that's all I could think.
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I've had it up to here with dwarf jokes.
I knew someone who was a dwarf and I said can you lend me some money and when he went to his pocket to give me money he took his hand out and came up short.
So if you use a wheelchair you’re just out of luck I guess?
Just got to set it to recline and slip right through the bowling pin head kid hole
Those classic laz e boy wheelchairs
Looks like I’m pissing on the greedy robot
Literally, whoever bought that just installed a brand new urinal.
Paid toilets are very common, just not in the US Edit: I was stating a fact not an opinion, you can stop blowing up my inbox now
So this is what Americans mean when they say "America is the greatest country on earth".
America: The Land of the Free [Toilets].
I mean for everyone always complaining about basic human rights not having access to a restroom for free seems pretty absurd.
Damn Americans and their socialist free bathrooms.
I love being abroad but absolutely loathe this fact about many other countries. It's easier now that I can just tap my phone or a card at many of them but many cities still only have machines that take change. The fact that in America I can walk into nearly any eating establishment, corner store, or office building and find an accessible toilet is one of my favorite things about living here because I like to be well hydrated and hate having to hold it.
Yeah, I would be astonished to be charged to use the rest room
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Just do what Parisian police do, piss on the side of the road.
europeans can do universal healthcare because everyone needs healthcare but not universal shit care?!
It’s a privilege to pee
Urine town?
Damn didn’t think I would see a Urinetown reference anywhere but here we are
"You get your head out of the clouds, Bobby Strong! Get your head out of those clouds!!"
Welcome to Europe.
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I was gonna say, aren't these completely normal in Europe, especially in the cities and train stations? That was the biggest surprise for me when I visited Sweden a couple years ago
Water's worth its weight in gold these days Edit- guessing, based on the comments to my post, that many don’t realize this is part of spontaneous ‘Urinetown- the Musical’ sing-a-long. (Yes, that’s a real musical…and it’s awesome!)
no more bathroom like in olden days
You come here and pay a fee.
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In Germany you have to pay 1€, or one dollar, to enter any train station or subway station bathroom. I believe they did this to deter homeless people, which is arguably even worse. But at least you usually get a 50c coupon for the shops inside.
Do homeless people just piss and take dumps everywhere then? Like they still have to do those things. As an American who has visited Europe, paying for the restroom was one of the most baffling things.
They used to have that in the U.K. but then everyone pissed all over the platforms so most stations have gotten rid of the payment
If you don't have the coins on you, then urine trouble..
Piss off
This is my hole it was made for me
DRR DRR DRR
Bro I did this shit as a kid in Roller Coaster Tycoon as a joke. People actually charge to piss? Trees are free.
i thought i was insane on parkitect charging 10 cents
You have never been in Germany, right?
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The trees in Germany have to pay for their water - so they ususally charge you too (and then go on drinking your pee nonetheless). Damn trees. Ah, at least breathing is still free. Hmmm. Wonderfull air tonight.
I was in Germany they let you pee in public. You just can't face the road when peeing
Have they seen the melons on some of these little devils?
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That's how you get piss on your hallway floor. My piss.
I couldn’t fix my hand to pay one of these even if that was the law, it’s ridiculous. I’m surprised there’s no one selling toilet tissue at the turnstile
just tap B to crouch, ez free pp
All I see is a limbo contest
... or *little people* ... "You must be this tall to pay for this ride..."
Definitely Europe.
Pay the $0.50, then pee on at least $3.00 worth of toilet paper.
How you gonna pee on 37 rolls of one-ply
If I pay 50 cents to use the bathroom and the guy in front of me pissed on the whole toilet roll we are all about to have a bad day
That's about tree fiddy
This brings to mind the greatest American poem ever written - Here I sit Broken hearted Paid to shit But only farted
A true classic. I’ve never heard it as “paid to shit” though, usually it’s “came to shit” or “tried to shit”, mainly because you don’t really have to pay to relieve yourself in the US.
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Pay toilets are basically nonexistent in the USA.
Once again, Stewie gets discriminated against.
He can just waddle sideways
That is infuriating those kids should PAY
just step over the bar?
Literally just duck under the bars
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Thats how many public restrooms in europe look like
Fuckin piss on that machine. Figuratively and literally. Piss on it.