“Replace the roll“? Fair enough. Any special requests after that, though, I’m not so sure about. As our submitter in Lexington, Kentucky writes: “Does that extra .34-second step really cause your day to go so horribly?”
On the flipside…don’t flush ‘em, I understand. but…really, ladies? As our submitter in Orlando put it: “I don’t know what scares me more: the fact that this was a problem, or the fact that my employers had professional signs made up to deter people from doing it.”
related: a filthy hap pit
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#1
Neeners
As opposed to throwing unsanitary napkins in the shower? I would prefer a clean one in there if I must put up with it in the first place. Are they cleaning them in the shower? I know these are tough times but please go out and splurge on yourself a little.
Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 pm rating: 18
#2
Faux Pas
That clown paper border is terrifying.
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:06 pm rating: 26
#3
nigedo
Tail? What sort of tail? I prefer not to find anything hanging on toilet paper myself.
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:08 pm rating: 10
#4
QuarterRoy00
Well if I can’t throw sanitary napkins in the shower I will just have to stick them gently on the walls and floor. Or throw them at other people by the lockers. There are no signs against that.
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:25 pm rating: 22
#5
nigedo
snippy snip plx :*
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:27 pm rating: 0
#6
Will
It seems like passive-aggressive people focus 99% of their attention on either the bathroom or the kitchen. it’s fascinating.
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:35 pm rating: 10
#7
ryanmalloy
Thanks to this website, we are familiar with people taking a dump in the shower. I’m not sure if toilet paper was involved there.
But sanitary napkins? That’s a new one…
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:50 pm rating: 1
#8
Neeners
“Please leave a ‘tail’ on the toilet paper AFTER use.” Gross, wouldn’t that be as unsanitary as the napkins in the shower? Used toilet paper shaped into a tail? How about putting it in the shape of a point like they do at the Holiday Inn also? Bite me, you’re lucky I put a new roll on in the first place bud!
Sep 3, 2009 at 11:59 pm rating: 6
#9
Julie
I know someone whose dormitory had a problem with girls leaving used tampons in the showers… I had no idea women were so gross.
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:01 am rating: 4
#10
mamason
Maybe they were just playing a light hearted game of catch. You know how playful naked women can be.
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:05 am rating: 35
#11
Canthz_B
But, no bridal shower is complete without the traditional throwing of the sanitary napkin.
It’s said to be predictive of who gets their period next!
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:26 am rating: 12
#12
Canthz_B
Sanitary napkins are just fine tossed into showers.
It’s the unsanitary ones they should be concerned about.
Shucks! Neeners, comment #8.
Gotta remember to ctrl+F
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:28 am rating: 1
#13
Canthz_B
I wonder which wag came up with the idea of calling it a tail?
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 am rating: 2
#14
Alyssa
I think for the tail one they might be referring to one of those really scary big plastic things that traps the roll so far up that it’s impossible to get paper out if someone doesn’t leave a tail
Just saying – maybe.. haha but maybe not. This site *is* full of signs that are a little… excessive
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:40 am rating: 1
#15
Canthz_B
Lavatory reading, by Geoffrey Chaucer XVII:
The Toilet Paper Tails
Sep 4, 2009 at 12:41 am rating: 4
#16
aaa
All I have to say about the second one is EWWWWWWWWW. Menstruation is so fucking nasty. It’s like regular bleeding, but a thousand times grosser and with all sorts of random other ick thrown in. :c
Sep 4, 2009 at 1:29 am rating: 6
#17
Powdered Toastman
If they would just keep a trash can in the shower they could avoid all this nasty business.
Sep 4, 2009 at 1:30 am rating: 4
#18
mamason
Well, I happen to think it could be useful to have some sanitary napkins in the shower. You know… in case someone poops.
Sep 4, 2009 at 1:35 am rating: 5
#19
bowloftoast
Maybe the napkins weren’t so much thrown in the shower as left there. Perhaps some enterprising employee was just practicing the three R’s and an overzealous putzfrau interrupted the process…would also explain the note about ‘throwing’ sanitary napkins in the microwave.
Sep 4, 2009 at 2:56 am rating: 0
#20
Brad F.
I’m not really surprised. Women as a whole are far more disgusting and vile than men could ever be. I’ve heard stories about menstrual blood being smeared on the walls of bathrooms, dripped all over seats, etc etc.
Sep 4, 2009 at 5:54 am rating: 0
#21
CrankyProfessor
Have none of you seen Carrie?
The shower scene, where the evil bitches throw sanitary napkins at Carrie scarred me about blondes for life!
Sep 4, 2009 at 6:22 am rating: 5
#22
auditory cortex
I gave a job talk at a UK university a couple of years ago. In the ladies toilet was a sign asking people not to throw used tampons on the floor ‘because the cleaners refuse to pick them up’. I was impressed that the sign writer felt they needed to give people a reason not to do that.
Sadly, no photo, as these were the dark days before I found this site.
Sep 4, 2009 at 7:37 am rating: 2
#23
Snarky
I had the shower scene from Carrie flash through my head when I read the second one.
Sep 4, 2009 at 9:16 am rating: 1
#24
N/A
Looks like it’s a sign in a preschool or elementary school. I’m betting they had issues with kids not wiping because some other amusing kid rotated the roll so they had to fish around and turn it all the way round to find the end. Who’s going to bother when there’s play-doh to be played with? It’s so annoying when you have to dig around up there to find the end, especially since so many places seem to mount the dispensers way down the wall for no apparent reason.
Sep 4, 2009 at 9:18 am rating: 0
#25
C.S. Harmonikah
I wonder how much the signmaker giggled when he had to make that sign.
Sep 4, 2009 at 10:38 am rating: 1
#26
Michelle S.
I have concluded that people are insane.
Sep 4, 2009 at 11:33 am rating: 1
#27
Michelle S.
I have concluded that people are insane.
Sep 4, 2009 at 11:33 am rating: 0
#28
TheOldSchool
The signs I had installed in my bathrooms say:
“This toilet paper is for decorative use only.”
Sep 4, 2009 at 11:45 am rating: 4
#29
pope suburban
The second sign actually becomes quite reasonable when you learn it’s in Carrie’s old high school. One burned-down prom was more than enough for them.
Sep 4, 2009 at 1:35 pm rating: 3
#30
Snippy
[Yet another careless gigglebrax fail.]
Sep 4, 2009 at 2:15 pm rating: 2
#31
Mi
They should have had these printed for my dorm floor one year. We had a huffy sit-down with our RA about the used tampons in the shower. The janitorial staff was threatening to stop cleaning our floor. Ew-zers.
Sep 4, 2009 at 2:50 pm rating: 1
#32
Xenobiologista
Both in my college dorm in the USA and my sister’s college dorm in Singapore, you could find tampons and pads in the shower. For the information of those unfamiliar with dorm life, it IS a pain in the neck to have to go into a toilet stall, remove the old tampon/pad, shower, go back into the toilet to put in a new tampon/pad, but circumventing that by leaving used menstrual products in a public space is inexcusable.
Sep 6, 2009 at 10:36 am rating: 0
#33
thatjessicagirl
Once again – the first one isn’t passive aggressive. Just picky. The second isn’t either. Just because someone leaves a note doesn’t automatically qualify it as PA.
Funny.
But not PA.
Sep 7, 2009 at 12:02 am rating: 1
#34
park rose
What the Dickens? It’s obviously the tail of two shitties.
Sep 7, 2009 at 10:58 am rating: 4
#35
MAMARILLA2
Sep 7, 2009 at 11:18 am rating: 0
#36
Canthz_B
I’d appreciate a clarification as to where to leave a toilet paper “tail”.
On the roll, out of my butt or on my shoe as in a Roseanne Roseannadanna moment?
For those who may not be familiar with SNL’s Gilda Radner character Roseanne Roseannadanna:
She was talking about eating a hamburger in a restaurant and how she felt something hard in it. And she spit it out and it was white and looked like a toenail. She said, “I thought I was gonna die. I mean, what was a toenail doing in my hamburger?” Then she went to the restroom and on the way to the restroom she saw Princess Lee Radziwill who she described as the “classy lady that no one knows where she’s the princess of.” But what the Princess didn’t know was she had a tiny piece of toilet paper hanging off her shoe, and she was walking around and the toilet paper wouldn’t fall off. “I thought I was gonna be sick. So I says to her, ‘Hey Princess Lee—what are ya tryin’ to do, make me sick?’ ” So Jane Curtin asked her what this had to do with anything. Roseanne said, “Well it just goes to show you, it’s always something, you either got a toenail in your hamburger or toilet paper clinging to your shoe.”
Sep 7, 2009 at 2:47 pm rating: 3
#37
Anthony McKenzie
There are classes for eating and dining politely, maybe there needs to be some kind of class for toilet-roll etiquette.
Sep 17, 2009 at 12:01 am rating: 0
#38
pony girl
I just have to mention that the first note is just beautiful.
Such perfect penmanship. And the writing is so even.
*sigh*
Oct 11, 2009 at 4:29 pm rating: 0
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