By no means am I a public restroom aficionado. We all gotta go sometimes, but I’m very qualified to tell you the best I have been in,
and here’s why…
My son Donovan is almost 15 years old now, but there was a time, I’ll say ages 2 through 10, that every single solitary damn time we went shopping. he without hesitation would have to go either number one or number 2. No matter how many times we made him go at home before we left, Donnie Boy had to let loose as soon as we started our shopping adventure. So, as the Dad, it’s my job to take him. After a while I started making mental notes of the places with nasty restrooms in hopes my son could “hold it” til we either got home, or to another store with cleaner facilities.
Funny thing is, now my kid is a big boy and doesn’t need me to take him to the bathroom anyplace, but I still find myself ranking bathrooms while shopping! Like I said, when ya gotta go, ya gotta go! I really think this is important for those of us that still like to go to brick and mortar stores for our shopping as opposed to ordering our groceries while actually on the toilet. So I did some “research”, while grocery and general home shopping over the past few weeks to come up with this list.
Here’s the general criteria for a solid store restroom, in my opinion:
It’s gotta be fully stocked at ALL times. you have to have someone on top of this! Post Covid we cannot have a large, let say big box store not have soap in the soap dispenser, or a second roll of toilet paper hanging around. How about the places that never have paper towels? Or worse, have a hand dryer from 1986 that blows like a soft Summer breeze? I need more POWERRRR!
Next, the floors. Now this is where personal hygiene really comes into play. Fellas, you can’t be dribbling. Enough said. However, the floors need to be mopped at minimum every night or morning. For God’s sake monitor the paper towel trash container for overflow, and please let’s pick up the dirty paper towels that made it to the floor.
Finally, I could go on with more infractions, from mold to graffiti to boogies on the wall. No I’ll stop with this one – Nobody, and I mean nobody needs to see a poop overflow while they’re waiting for their cold cuts.
So here are the BEST restroom’s I’ve been in recently:
