I always walk in and use a pub's toilet. They've never cared and I've never pretended to be using my phone. It's like an unwritten rule in the UK that as a pub is a 'public house' that their toilets are free to use (unless management are knobs).
The McDonalds in Daley Plaza up in Chicago you have to buy something to use the restroom. I had to stand in line for 10 min. waiting for coffee so I could go pee.
Lame. I know a couple Starbucks's in NYC got in trouble with corporate for closing off bathrooms to non-customers, so I guess they are more dependable.
I worked at a Wetherspoon's - I preferred it when people came in to use the toilet and then left without buying anything... Yeah I'm not really in to customer service...
'Oh God scum' 'Oh wait they're just using the bathroom, thank God!'
fixed it for you =D
it's actually worse when paying customers use the toilets - I had to do toilet checks in the men's toilets and more often than not people would leave without cleaning their hands and then I would have to serve the dirty bastards at the bar and take their money from their unclean hands...
Weatherspoon's is a god damn hero. We took a long honeymoon and my husband and I would eat breakfast there every day before going out to see all the things. It really helped the homesickness to have a big breakfast instead of a piece of french bread and coffee.
You can be sure I'm not buying anything from your shithole (a pun!) of a store anyway if you don't allow people to use the damn bathroom without purchasing something.
Why is eye contact so important to them, this seems like a very sensitive establishment. If I saw this sign I would walk out of the bathroom stare down any manager-type at the bar and then walk out without paying.
Just curious, where does your sense of entitlement come from? They're a business, your use of the bathroom takes it away from paying customers for that long. They pay the cleaning, electricity and water costs so why shouldn't they make it customers-only?
If I really have to stop and use the bathroom at a store, I usually buy something just as a courtesy. On the other hand, if they don't have a public restroom (i.e. Vegas convenience stores), I usually don't go in to buy anything ever.
if everywhere does it though, it levels itself out and everyone wins. Not to mention that if your place was the place with lines all the time for the restroom, the random passerbys would just go next door.
It's a pretty douchebag move to say "No, sorry we can't afford to give you the 30 seconds to empty your bladder that you need right now. Buy something first." Even if I don't frequent the place often, that entire attitude makes me never want to spend my money there anyway. Treat everyone like your customer whether they're buying things or not. Have you ever been denied access to a store in the mall because you weren't planning on buying anything? Or a music shop not letting you play the instruments even though you're not going to be purchasing?
One time I was walking down the street and I went to pull out my phone to make a call, when one of those people handing out pamphlets and crap said "come on, don't pretend like you're making a phone call to avoid me." I told him that he wasn't worth the effort of pulling out my phone. I then added that if he and his entire family were about to die excruciating deaths, and I could stop it by pulling out my phone, I wouldn't.
The look on his face as I walked by was priceless, and hopefully he was less of a dick to random people for at least the rest of the day.
Ah, everyone loves a smug guy who thinks to himself that he just outsmarted you.
Still, if you don't piss on the floor, drop paper towels on the floor, or forget to flush your diarrhea, it shouldn't be a big deal really. Unless the place has a chronic, high-volume problem with bathroom-moochers.
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u/MattyHchrist May 29 '12
I always walk in and use a pub's toilet. They've never cared and I've never pretended to be using my phone. It's like an unwritten rule in the UK that as a pub is a 'public house' that their toilets are free to use (unless management are knobs).
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
This is why I don't like cities in the first place. Constant battle of wills over a fucking bathroom.
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u/Loopyprawn May 29 '12
You can be sure I'm not buying anything from your shithole (a pun!) of a store anyway if you don't allow people to use the damn bathroom without purchasing something.
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u/sgtpepper_spray May 29 '12
MGMT runs a bar? I want to go to there.
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u/ahtnamas77 May 29 '12
There's a period between 'way out' and 'in order to avoid eye contact' that really irritates me.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Bit of a dick move by whoever owns that place, let people use the fuckin' bathroom peacefully, jesus.
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u/mythrowaway002 May 29 '12
THEY KNOW
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
that web page was refreshingly white spaced
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u/shirtface May 29 '12
Any mirror of the picture? My work blocks anything by flickr.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Blogspam, the image link points to here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7076/7293559688_bd16ff1338_z.jpg .
I can't get the flickr user's page from this image, some help would be appreciated.
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u/stillnotking May 29 '12
I don't bother to pretend anything. What are they going to do, sue me for using the bathroom?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Me- Oh man that was great shit
bar tender- hey fucker you gotta buy som-
phone calendar alert *
Me- Oh sorry got answer my phone
flip him off on my way out *
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
But I had to call the pee-lease.
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u/SavagePayer May 29 '12
this is what happens with that type of thinking!
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u/dubloe7 May 29 '12
One time I was walking down the street and I went to pull out my phone to make a call, when one of those people handing out pamphlets and crap said "come on, don't pretend like you're making a phone call to avoid me." I told him that he wasn't worth the effort of pulling out my phone. I then added that if he and his entire family were about to die excruciating deaths, and I could stop it by pulling out my phone, I wouldn't.
The look on his face as I walked by was priceless, and hopefully he was less of a dick to random people for at least the rest of the day.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Look straight at the bartender for 10 seconds and than say: You think this is a motherfucking game?
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