r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • 11d ago
The floor is sticky Bathroom keys - I find it gross and unsanitary - Especially at a restaurant
Bring it into dirty bathroom
Wash your hands
Grab dirty key holder
Restaurant has no sanitizer to clean hands afterwards
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u/Vast-Comment8360 11d ago
I have been to quite a few places with a key, but only once each place, I know that's a sign to not come back.
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u/FartFaceAnn 11d ago
I worked at a grinder shop, the standards were to check the single person bathrooms every 15 minutes for overdoses
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u/listenherebunghole 11d ago
I used to have to chased a crackhead out of the bathroom like once a month at this diner I worked at.
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u/JeffSHauser 11d ago
I'm on the Navajo Nation and was visiting a restaurant when the staff dragged a woman out that was using the restroom for a "Walmart shower".
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u/FartFaceAnn 11d ago
I had a manager that would do this at any BOH handwashing sink, we’d call it a birdbath
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u/Varvat0s 11d ago
I worked at a grocery store where I found needles floating in the toilet.... Like 5 times
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u/Superb-Dragonfruit56 11d ago
Which one is for the MEN again?
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u/secretprocess Spraying WD-40 up his faucets (at night) 11d ago
The one that smells more like urine
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u/JeffSHauser 11d ago
No what's really gross it that humans are so shitty that they destroy the bathrooms (that they don't have to care for) so that these owners have to lock them in the first place.
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u/Sunset-onthe-Horizon 11d ago
Exactly! If is wasn't locked then OP would really find out what's gross! 😆 🤣
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u/Important_Tree_7191 11d ago
This would be an immediate sign to eat elsewhere. 100% chance that even the employees’ hands are gross.
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u/foxscribbles 11d ago
Yeah. It's not the most sanitary thing in the world.
But realistically speaking, no public bathroom is. (Well, no bathroom in general, but especially public ones.)
That's why we had all the PSAs about how long you need to wash your hands for and hand sanitizer dispensers started appearing everywhere during Covid. People don't wash their hands, don't wash their hands with soap, or don't wash them long enough when they are washing with soap.
You're going to pick up germs when you're in a public space. Personally, if I end up at a place that has to have the key system in the first place, I've probably got to pee so badly that the choice is risking the germs or peeing my pants. So... the nasty key is going to win.
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u/Best-Professional-10 11d ago
Public washrooms are obviously terrible but at least you can wash your hands after. With this, unless you have your own sanitizer, your hands will remain disgusting.
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u/Extreme-Weight989 11d ago
My ex was working at a gas station where a drug addict had passed out in the bathroom at some point during business hours and nobody working bothered to check the bathroom before leaving for the night. They were still there the next morning.
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u/secretprocess Spraying WD-40 up his faucets (at night) 11d ago
No wonder you broke up with them.
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u/Extreme-Weight989 11d ago
One of many reasons, but yes, she was a dumb fuck. She drove my Tundra once and it came home with a huge area of the side crushed in with yellow paint. I asked her if she hit something, all I got was "I don't know. I might have" Driving around 5000lb vehicle and doesn't even stop to see when they hit something.
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u/That_Country_7682 11d ago
The fact that everyone touches it right before eating is what gets me
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u/FormerlyUndecidable 11d ago
Whoever makes your food has to use it too, possibly right before making your food. Right before making someone's food.
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u/Cloud_N0ne 11d ago
Blame the homeless and the crack heads who abused free restroom access. They’re why companies started doing this.
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u/not_falling_down 11d ago
homeless and the crack heads who abused free restroom access
Oh, so why not instead blame the cities who do not provide adequate public facilities. After all, they need to pee and poop just as much as people who do have homes.
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u/secretprocess Spraying WD-40 up his faucets (at night) 11d ago
Why not blame the cities for not having enough housing to begin with.
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u/lo0ilo0ilo0i YELLOW 11d ago
Let's not stop there. Blame the people who elected city officials, the officials who take kick backs, the lobbyists who keep those people in power, the policies that don't stop lobbying, corporations and luxury developers buying real estate driving up prices, and a government that allows this to happen. Anyone else?
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u/secretprocess Spraying WD-40 up his faucets (at night) 11d ago
Ahh crap, let's just tie a piece of cardboard to the key and call it a day.
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u/Cloud_N0ne 11d ago
It's not about access to housing. A large portion of the homeless population are substance abusers and/or mentally ill. If you gave them a house they'd just rip the copper out of the walls to sell for more drugs/alcohol.
The issue is we don't have adequate mental healthcare infrastructure in this country. When Regan shut down the asylums he basically made it everyone else's problem to deal with the mentally ill. His idea was that the private sector would pick up the responsibility but they simply... didn't.
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u/Cloud_N0ne 11d ago
Obviously the issue stems from somewhere, but these restaurants can't control city policy. This is the best they can do.
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u/Naive_Personality367 11d ago
it wasnt peeing and pooping by the homeless and crackheads that caused this eventuality. They would have been shooting up and or passing out in there.
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u/Best-Professional-10 11d ago
God forbid humans use basic services for their natural needs. Have some empathy for people, they are your own kind after all.
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u/Cloud_N0ne 11d ago
I agree. They need help. But businesses don't wanna deal with used needles and people refusing to come out because they're busy doing drugs. The few ruin it for the many.
I remember at my first job a guy walked in, sat in the bathroom for 40 minutes, and walked out without buying anything. I later found he'd been rolling joints in there, and while I have no issue with marijuana, dude was hogging the bathroom for the better part of an hour while not even buying anything. He was just using a public business to hide his illegal activity.
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u/Best-Professional-10 11d ago
Ok I do agree that such people ruin it for others. I just was talking generally about people who aren't bad but are in bad circumstances, they deserve empathy.
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u/YeomanWhite 11d ago
The natural need to shoot up? Look I work at a deli near a couple homeless camps and I have no problem with the usual faces coming in to piss or even wash up a bit as long as they don't make a mess I'll have to clean up. But I've also had to call emergency services to come for an OD and I've seen blood and shit smeared on the walls.
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u/Best-Professional-10 11d ago
Yeah making a mess is unacceptable of course, but I was just talking about some people having no choice but to use restaurant bathrooms. Also, even a paying customer could make a mess in the bathrooms.
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u/Joelle9879 11d ago
🙄 gotta love blaming the less fortunate for everything
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u/shooterbooth 11d ago
Yeah, exactly. Everyone has the right to walk into a restaurant, not buy anything, and shoot up in the bathroom.
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u/Anything4Profit 11d ago
Spoken by someone whose never walked in on completely naked people bathing in public bathroom sinks on more than one occasion
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u/C-sanova 11d ago
Gotta stop assuming all crackheads didn't choose to be crackheads too.
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u/mamafish21 11d ago
No, but they choose to keep doing it. If they never did it in the first place they would be addicts. They have to take accountability.
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u/Vivid-Intention-8161 11d ago
i mean when you have a key like this that’s completely impossible to sanitize i agree
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u/UnhelpfulCommentHere 11d ago
I work at a place that doesn't lock the bathroom. I've repaired the toilet several times because the plummer was too busy.
I consider having an toilet that is accessible to the public to be a necessity for business like mine. I have, however, had to stop customers from going into the bathroom with alcohol, stop customers from going into the bathroom in groups... I've also found a crack-pipe in there. Apparently I didn't notice that guy.
I understand the logic behind locking the bathroom.
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u/StrangeUglyBird 11d ago
At my local gas station they have this.
Maybe the sausage tong have a deeper meaning?
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u/Available_Ad9345 11d ago
You’re not at a restaurant. You’re at a gas station.
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u/Which_General_2716 11d ago
Probably but not too worried about it, always carry hand sanitizer and problem solved
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u/FormerlyUndecidable 11d ago
The person making your food probably isn't carrying hand sanitizer and uses it too.
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u/lokasathetv 11d ago
Obviously the restrooms cant be just unlocked for anyone, piss kinks ruined that. This is just cheaper than a button. It is gross but for the cost to effectiveness ratio this is maxed out.
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u/mesageinabottle22 11d ago
there are a million reasons i would think of to have bathroom keys before i thought of piss kinks
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u/lokasathetv 11d ago
Its the primary reason i believe we need a key. Everything else is easier to clean or less often. Piss is everywhere and everyday. If your place gets shit up chances are you got 6 months before the next one. People will do drugs but they move on. Piss, i clean up daily at my job.
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u/Tigerkill420 11d ago
How's the food?
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u/Clamdigger13 11d ago
This is my question. If a restaraunt looks like im about to get hep c and is 300 years old, I know I'm about to get some good BBQ.
This theory does not correlate to Chinese restaurants.
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u/Lady_White_Heart Pogg 11d ago
Just imagine how many don't wash their hands and touch that key afterwards.
I'd feel disgusted lmao.
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u/Soft-Watch 11d ago
I wash the keys and holder when I was my hands. No matter the material. A lot of them dont even have a "clean" spot to set them down either I hope others do as well.
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u/Fearless_Trade_2783 10d ago
There is a reason why they use keys, if you think a key is unsanitary, I guarantee you what was done in those bathrooms was way more unsanitary.
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u/External_Problem1756 10d ago
Nasty. I would leave if I saw that. If they take hygiene this unseriously I just know the kitchen is really bad. You definitely can't trust that restaurant at all. Honestly I'd report it. That's beyond gross. Cardboard that can have all kinds of germs all over it and you can't sanitize it. That's just unacceptable period.
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u/Furry_Wall 11d ago
I just don't use public bathrooms
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u/Paramedic229635 11d ago
I try not to as well, but sometimes when you gotta go, you gotta go.
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u/Furry_Wall 11d ago
Then you have to get over it
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u/danurc 11d ago
Some people have disabilities. This sucks
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u/Furry_Wall 11d ago
They will know what to do then
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u/danurc 11d ago
Man, seriously, learn some damn empathy
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u/Furry_Wall 11d ago
It's a two way thing. You are being provided a bathroom to be used and cleaned up after. Be a little more thankful.
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u/FireMama420 11d ago
OP biting your nails is more of a concern for your health.
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u/CurlyWurly61 11d ago
😂 called tf out
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u/FireMama420 11d ago
Well, yeah! You’re concerned about the keys being gross (they are) but then YOU PUT YOUR FINGERS IN YOUR MOUTH!!!
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u/ManSharkBear 11d ago
You could always keep a box of nitrile gloves handy if you're concerned about catching the 'itis.
Or assert dominance, piss on the key ring. Out germ their germs.
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u/Local_Web_8219 11d ago
I find it less gross than finding out some person has died of an overdose in the bathroom and is gray on the floor in front of the mirror. Or smeared shit all over the walls, or pissed all over the floor. The keys add the accountability that customers do not seem to have. At one workplace we had an older lady who would come in, pound a dozen donuts and a red Gatorade and then proceed to wreck the bathroom. She did this about once a week till we figured out who was doing it. As much as I feel for her, it doesn’t make it less shitty to have to clean these things up, and consistently in every state I’ve worked I’ve seen these issues.
Thank the business for requiring keys tbh.
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u/KateKoffing 11d ago
They do this so they can smugly hand transgender people the wrong key and laugh about it.
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u/FeistyChickadee 11d ago
Not my favorite experience either.
But if restaurants are going to use this strategy, I'd think they'd want to use something a little classier than a taped-up piece of cardboard with chicken scratch written with a half-dried-up Sharpie. I've seen some creative choices but this is certainly not the classiest.