Restrooms...?

From calling the toilet "loo" back in school, to a "Rest room" more recently.. i was taught by my parents, and at school to keep it clean. But leaving home and school restrooms and 'expriencing' public toilets came as... *phew* i have no words to explain... even the thought of the toilets at the railway stations makes me sick in my stomach.

It has to come from each person, a sense of responsibility and understanding... that a public toilet has to be kept hygenic. A lot of people use it...

First of all.. please understand that the FLUSH is there for a purpose, and when they made it and fitted it there, they wanted people to make use of it. You can't just pee and leave that place smelly you know.. When the next person opens the door.. its a blast of..erm.. disgustingly-ammonia-smelling-making-you-want-to-puke kind of air(if you can call it that)...

Secondly, toilet walls weren't exactly made for your purpose of writing your unsuccessful love stories or your rebellious feelings aganist a political party or your fantastical erotic realizations while imagining your next door neighbour or your deep craze for a filmstar... they were just meant to be... walls.. try go buying paper for such purposes.. if you're so broke that you can't afford a sheet of paper and pencil ask me.. i'll lend them to you.. even gift them to you.. better yet go write on the sea shore.. that way you can play with the sea.. you can write all you want and the water can wash it away..

Thirdly, women.. kindly understand.. others do not want to see traces of your monthly cycles displayed at the window or near the toilet seats... kindly keep it private and know where to throw.

Fourthly, this one's for men.. kindly aim into the toilet seat and not around it.. i dunno if you do it for fun or you love watching it flow down like harpic flows down from the sides of the toilet seats in the Harpic ads.. but.. while you do it standing.. We are compelled to sit.. i might not have complained if we were capable of standing and getting our business done like you.

Fifthly, keep the place clean, that is not dustbin, it's disgusting to see bits of paper on the wet toilet floor, strands of hair, empty plastic bottles.. and such things... i know each one of us goes around discussing unclean public loos but if each one of us is careful it can be avoided you know.

Sixthly, this is for people who think mugs and such things kept in public toilets can be thrown around, stamped on, or taken home... That isn't the case... you've got it absolutely wrong.. you just use those mugs or buckets or whatever and leave them in position..

Lastly, Kindly close the door behind you.. do you leave the bathroom door in your house open???

I should list out here just for the attention of those who don't know which toilets are categorized under public toilets... toilets at railway stations, bust-stops, petrol-pumps, colleges, libraries, restraunts, offices.. and any such place where people other than you can 'drop-in'.

There are more things i might have missed out.. but these are the major ones.. before each one teach one.. each one teach oneself..i am confident that i'm a careful user of public restrooms.. are you..?

-Evangeline