just in case gas prices aren’t hurting you enough lately, tim from madison, wisconsin brings us this stomach-turning (yet impressively restrained) note from a petrol station somewhere en route to green bay.
meanwhile, tonya in oakland passes along a photo taken by a traveler brave/desperate enough to actual enter a gas station restroom somewhere in utah.
and finally, the kicker (from jim in columbia, s.c.): who would’ve guessed that germaphobia and gas-station employment aren’t mutually exclusive?
related: “if it wasn’t for the toilet, there would be no books”
117 responses so far ↓
#1
zombieBlanco
Wow. Totally stunned. Wisconsin is apparently nothing like I had envisioned.
Jun 11, 2008 at 4:51 pm rating: +1
#2
Quite Contrary
We need to add “pinking sheers” to the list of must haves for PAN’s. And to cut the paper into a circle. Brings a tear to my eye.
Puts all our little passive aggressive little sorority girls/bitchy roommates/scrapbookers to shame. (If I knew how to create the links in this box, I would link to Cody, Sam/Katelyn, and the chick who did the scrapbooking extravaganza about driving on campus.)
Jun 11, 2008 at 4:57 pm rating: +6
#3
zombieBlanco
What’s with the Equus asinus hatred coming out of South Carolina? Can’t we all just get along?
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:02 pm rating: +3
#4
Morning Sunshine
Sometimes the funniest things in life are found on a piece of paper.
http://englishfail.wordpress.com
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:07 pm rating: 0
#5
Sarah
Well, I guess we now know the reason for Dave’s inexplicably high toilet paper usage.
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:08 pm rating: +10
#6
Canthz_B
…And there followed a parade of mooning flu sufferers the likes of which the world had never before seen…
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:10 pm rating: +7
#7
Canthz_B
Since you feel no need to clean your restrooms, turn around.
The mop handle is inside!
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:13 pm rating: +3
#8
tk.
This reminds me of a sign outside of a Dari-Mart in Eugene, OR:
“Sorry”, no customer restroom!
I’m gonna guess that they weren’t very sorry at all.
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:21 pm rating: +1
#9
Nathaniel
I guess somebody watched Clerks.
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:31 pm rating: +1
#10
KittyKat
No flu germs, please, but bring your crabs right on in. They’ll feel right at home in our filty bathroom.
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:38 pm rating: +9
#11
Mishee
But I can still do my drugs in here right? Ok, cool.
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:40 pm rating: +14
#12
Canthz_B
OMG, They don’t mind if you jerk off in their restroom as long as you buy the magazine!
Visa, Mast(urbation) Card and Discover (yourself) Card accepted here!
Jun 11, 2008 at 5:52 pm rating: +19
#13
Canthz_B
Dirty restroom complaints.
This is why your gas station attendant is cranky.
That and having a job just above ditch-digger.
Jun 11, 2008 at 6:15 pm rating: +1
#14
Erik
Someone should write a passive-aggressive response on the wall of the Utah gas station:
“Cleanliness has an L in it, and 7REE is not a word.”
Jun 11, 2008 at 6:25 pm rating: 0
#15
Canthz_B
Pardon me Miss, if I purchase this Massive Mammaries of Madison magazine will you clean up what John Hancock writes on your walls?
Jun 11, 2008 at 6:43 pm rating: +7
#16
marcopuffin
The first one is poetry. The suggestive look of the life size model. The understated, yet yuckily apt message. The circular ad for Copenhagen something at bottom left saying, “it satisfies” (evidently). Whoever wrote this has class.
Jun 11, 2008 at 6:45 pm rating: +5
#17
Canthz_B
South Carolinians are unique in that they pass influenza infection by fart.
Jun 11, 2008 at 6:50 pm rating: +9
#18
KittyKat
If I pay Casey in Human Resources $5, can I get a hat with my nudie magazine?
Jun 11, 2008 at 6:59 pm rating: +3
#19
se
I don’t understand. If you have the flu, why would they want you to come in with your ass out? Is someone going to give you a flu shot?
Jun 11, 2008 at 7:45 pm rating: +18
#20
ErikaBlare
And for the love of god, can’t you even make it to your CAR before wanking off to your stroke mag? It seems to me as though the fly paper on the ceiling, overflowing toilets, and yelling “Occupied!” when people knock on the door might just spoil the mood.
Jun 11, 2008 at 8:32 pm rating: +18
#21
kristen
Oh…I’ve peed in that Utah potty box…it’s nasty nasty bad…ew…gross…I need to go take a shower….
Jun 11, 2008 at 8:57 pm rating: +1
#22
Canthz_B
I saw the cleaning supplies. I read the instructions because I did not buy a magazine on my way to the john. I’m only out here complaining because someone with flu sat in the stall next to me with his ass out!
Jun 12, 2008 at 1:28 am rating: +5
#23
Canthz_B
Posted: The cure for Influenza is to go about bare-assed!
Jun 12, 2008 at 2:26 am rating: 0
#24
Jsmoke
I would actually clean the bathroom, then leave my own PA note. Call it PA’ing it forward.
Jun 12, 2008 at 4:38 am rating: +15
#25
unholyghost2003
1. Being a Wisconsinite I am not surprised at all by this sign. Don’t forget the Wisconsin is also the land where every gas station sells beer, wine, and hard liquor. Throw in a bag of cheese curds and you could have yourself a nice little “me-time” date in those restrooms. Also, between Madison and Green Bay there is very little ANYTHING (this coming from someone who lives between Madison and Green Bay) this note is aimed at truckers and I would bet money that this is also one of those strange gas stations that also have showers for truckers.
2. So is that green cup the “cleaning supplies” mentioned? Use it to scoop the floaters and soggy TP up?
3. THANK THE DEAR LORD they say that the sign is “posted” right at the top. I was wondering!
Jun 12, 2008 at 7:26 am rating: +1
#26
RALPHY
If I leave my ass outside, can the rest of me come in and take a piss in your filthy bathroom.
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:12 am rating: 0
#27
Kev Orng
Funny, where I come from those magazines are usually kept behind the counter with the cigarettes.
I don’t think it’s because we’re prudish, though. It’s probably because we find that inaccessibility is more effective as a theft deterrent than PA notes.
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:40 am rating: 0
#28
claw71
I usually like to take my porn out for a test wank. Isn’t that customary?
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:47 am rating: +11
#29
GhostWriter
“Excuse me, Ma’am. I just filled up on Pump 8, can I use the restroom?”
“Sure; that’ll be $8.95.”
“What? Oh, I already paid at the pump…”
“Sir, we have a new policy here. Did you see the sign? You gotta buy a magazine before you can go in.”
… … …
“…gimme the Penthouse.”
Jun 12, 2008 at 9:09 am rating: +6
#30
southern girl
Keep your ass out times ten!!!!!
Jun 12, 2008 at 9:33 am rating: 0
#31
Ryan
Our bathrooms are dirty. We know it and we don’t appreciate your criticism!
A bathroom like that should just be devastated so it makes it look like they have no standards whatsoever.
Jun 12, 2008 at 10:33 am rating: +1
#32
Stufsocker
When I worked at one of the two large bookselling chains in the USA, there was a regular we called Fingers (not to his face) who often scoured the magazine racks (he had to touch everything, hence the name) and then he’d take a stack at least 4 or 5 inches high and take them to the bathroom. We weren’t allowed to ban him from the place though. Stupid rules. There were a LOT of unsavory types we couldn’t ban.
Jun 12, 2008 at 11:07 am rating: 0
#33
claw71
Posted
Duh. You know, for some reason hicks, rednecks and yokels love to purchase, and apparently craft, signs that include the word “POSTED” in big bold letters at the top. As if not doing so automatically renders the sign moot.
Being a relatively educated man I generally assume that if a sign is glued, stapled, nailed, velcroed or otherwise attached to a surface it is posted.
Do they sell signs at Tractor Supply Company that are adorned with the term “unposted”?
Do chicken-fried tourists from the South ignore signs that don’t have “POSTED” on them?
That’s why I’m voting for Obama. He’s going to identify all the rubes and kill them with their own guns while they’re in church. At least that’s what Glen Beck’s been saying.
Jun 12, 2008 at 12:19 pm rating: +8
#34
the dawd
This one time at band camp, i went into the bathroom of a fabrication shop and hovered. There was one of those tonsillectomy styled mens magazines on the back of the toilet disguised as a watercolor painting. These kind of sights sometimes are par for the course at a fab shop, but the icing on my vomit cake was when i went to wash my hands and found the open jar of mildly crusty vaseline.
Jun 12, 2008 at 12:53 pm rating: 0
#35
secondsout
Is there anything a little more high-brow for my bathroom reading? National Geographic, the Economist, Fortune? Maybe some people just want to read, and not to rub one out. Then again, maybe there are some odd ones who find the Economist strangely arousing.
Jun 12, 2008 at 3:45 pm rating: +5
#36
kostia
That last picture just makes me think of “The Stand.” Yeek.
Jun 12, 2008 at 5:01 pm rating: 0
#37
secondsout
I would purchase one of the magazines, but you don’t have a copy of “Piss-Guzzling Grannies.” I’m a man of discerning taste.
Jun 12, 2008 at 6:03 pm rating: +2
#38
aaa
So, they don’t mind people camping out in their bathrooms masturbating to porn as long as they purchased the porn from their store?
I actually saw a porno mag in a gas station bathroom once when I was about seven. Seeing a naked dude didn’t scar me. I turned out okay, didn’t I?
Jun 12, 2008 at 6:16 pm rating: +1
#39
secondsout
I’m wondering if anyone has ever taken the Copenhagen poster into the bathroom. That woman is HOT!
Jun 12, 2008 at 6:44 pm rating: 0
#40
secondsout
Too cheap to get a flu shot this year? No problem! Just post a sign to keep out the viruses.
Jun 12, 2008 at 7:04 pm rating: +1
#41
Olivia
Wow. Normally I find the entries to be more or less funny, but these actually piss me off.
#1 Note: This one isn’t as much irritating as it is gross. Really, guys? You’re going to masturbate in a public restroom? You can’t wait until you get home?
#2 Note: This one pisses the hell out of me. Bathrooms are “free,” like they’re special privileges rather than common necessities? This isn’t a third-world country. Honestly, not upkeeping your store’s restroom – that falls into the realm of DISGUSTINGLY lazy.
#3 Note: AAAAARGH! That word “posted” is really ticking me off! I don’t know why, but it makes me want to yell and shout. Is it really necessary? Does the common man really need to see the word “posted” on a sign to know that it has been posted? Do you need to write the word “dead” on a cadaver for someone to know it is indeed dead? It makes me want to slap the note writer.
On a side note, I never knew I was such an angry person! : – ) This batch must’ve awakened something in me.
Jun 13, 2008 at 5:27 am rating: +3
#42
Stufsocker
Mishee!
Actually, they were stripped, noted as loss, and thrown away.
Jun 13, 2008 at 11:04 am rating: 0
#43
badfae
The second note really irritates me. When you work for a business that doesn’t have a separate janitorial/maintenance department, keeping the restroom(s) clean is part of the job description, and is included the service the employees are being paid to provide. Requesting that customers be considerate and not make more of a mess than necessary IS perfectly reasonable, but expecting them to perform part of your own job, for free, is definitely crossing the line.
Jun 14, 2008 at 11:03 pm rating: +1
#44
Russ
Can’t get over the magazine one. Very creepy. I wonder what the actual laws are about providing sanitary bathrooms to the public though? All three of these are classic though.
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
Jun 16, 2008 at 4:33 am rating: 0
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Jun 16, 2008 at 5:31 pm rating: 0
#46
sadi
Milwaukee WI doesn’t sell beer at gas stations. Wanking is optional.
Jun 19, 2008 at 2:06 pm rating: 0
#47
tomservo
badfae – yeah, I had the same problem when working as a cleaner on a porno shoot. Whenever I went anywhere near the sets, the guy stars *always* insisted I get up on the bed with the girls and perform part of their job for free…
Jul 2, 2008 at 1:25 pm rating: +1
#48
ccc
LOL! Very funny! Thanks for sharing!
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Jul 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm rating: 0
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