Your bathroom business, how much time do you spend?

Even in a public restroom where you know there is line of people waiting?

I'm not talking about at home. I relax at home with a magazine sometimes lol. I'm talking about in a public restroom where odds are there are at least 2 or 3 people waiting for you to do your business and get on with it.

That's the thing, the doors have frosted privacy glass on them which means you can't see out OR in, so people inside have NO idea there are people waiting. I wonder if it would change their slowness if they knew someone was waiting.

Our mall did some major remodeling when they redid the theater. They put in a kids play area by the food court and blocked off the mall entry to the theater and redid the bathrooms. Even the regular bathrooms are pretty nice. What I love about the family ones is because you can take little ones in with you and lock the door. There is no worrying about a little boy having to go into the mens' restroom alone while you hover, and no concern about a kid crawling under the stall door or god forbid OPENING the door while you're still using it lol. I have been in several malls that have nursing rooms. My employer put in a nursing room for employees shortly before I resigned. I was excited about it but bummed since I knew I wasn't going to get to use it. Maybe I have lived in progressive areas, who knows. I know what you're talking about with the gross ones. I don't understand how people can be so gross either. You go in and there is toilet paper and those seat covers all over the floor or partially flushed. There is pee on the floor, on the seat(s), etc. Some people leave things unflushed or starting to overflow even if there's a PLUNGER available. I used to be real good at the hovering technique, to not really touch the seat just in case. I hate to tell you there is a sizable slice of population who IS the same at home. They are also the folks who sneak out without washing their hands.... BTW I think my mall bathrooms are staying nice because they have hired an army of cleaning staff. There is always someone sweeping, sanitizing, or doing something in or near one of those bathrooms every time I bring my daughter to the mall. I'm glad, it means I don't have to whip out the hand sanitizer every other minute lol.

Maybe it just feels longer because I'm always waiting with a little girl who has to go! Once I was waiting and I heard a flush.... and then had to wait longer... and then when the guy finally came out, he was holding a NEWSPAPER, I swear he was in there just reading his paper, unaware that there was a kid jumping up and down trying not to pee herself!