Well, besides that whole skin cancer thing, there’s the fact that tanning booths — like thrift-store fitting rooms — seem to bring out the animal in everyone. And that’s probably not the kind of “golden glow” you were aiming for, right?
Exhibit A) From Margo in Indiana:
Exhibit B) From Lisa in Ohio, an ominous threat indeed:
Exhibit C) From Emily in England:
Exhibit D) From Ann in Arkansas:
And Exhibit E) From an anonymous fake-baker in Louisiana:
related: When nature calls
extra credit: GTK is the new GTL
120 responses so far ↓
#1
beerwad
It won’t be tolerated NOW. But it was tolerated before, apparently.
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:32 pm rating: 14
#2
Jesse
Is this really a problem?
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:36 pm rating: 10
#3
FeRD
If they don’t want us to use tanning rooms as toilets, why do they provide these handy chamberpots?
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm rating: 46
#4
Lisa
So sick and wrong. LOL
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:41 pm rating: 1
#5
Lucy
Number one!!!!
get it? lol
oh…nevermind…number five doesn’t really apply.
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:44 pm rating: 7
#6
Capt_Video
A friend of mine works at a tanning salon… at least these animals are using the trash cans and not just peeing in the tanning beads!!! Apparently that’s an ongoing issue for most tanning salons.
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:47 pm rating: 4
#7
bowloftoast
Apparently, tanners aren’t planners.
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:49 pm rating: 37
#8
the tsars fajita
For just how long were the folks at A Total Tan tolerating people using their tanning rooms like the pee troughs at a stadium? The customer is always wrong when urine is involved.
I love how the note then clarifies that “it wont be tolerated in the future.” So any previous offenses the staff are aware of are grandfathered under the old plan, and immune to the being very embarrassed.
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:50 pm rating: 11
#9
mostnobleblack
I don’t think I’ve ever been more grateful for being a pasty redhead who is incapable of tanning.
Jun 1, 2011 at 8:52 pm rating: 67
#10
Lauri
I think people who do this kind of thing have to have mental problems. Normal people would do anything to avoid doing something this gross. I’ve heard first-hand stories from people who work in clothing stores so I know people actually do poop in dressing rooms.
Jun 1, 2011 at 9:04 pm rating: 11
#11
TickleMyBambo
These tanning places are fortunate that having their trash bins continuously being mistaken for some idiots personal urinal is the only disturbingly disgusting incidents to happen. They haven’t seen nothing until they come across the grotesque graffiti artwork made by “The Poopy Bandit”. Trust me it’s not very pretty.
Jun 1, 2011 at 9:21 pm rating: 13
#12
Michele
Another reason to avoid UV rays.
Jun 1, 2011 at 9:32 pm rating: 3
#13
Elizabeth
My housemate likes to piss in random places as well. He told me it was normal acceptable behaviour. He pretends he can’t speak English when I ask him.
Maybe I come from a different culture/planet.
Jun 1, 2011 at 9:54 pm rating: 14
#14
Nikki
They don’t seem to mind the customers who use the tanning bed as their own personal masturbatorium… Those towels are always fun to pick up!
Jun 1, 2011 at 10:02 pm rating: 5
#15
Cognitive Dissenter
This problem won’t go away as long as the tanning salon sign creators presume the violators can read. They’d have better success (maybe) if they posted signs with instructive illustrations. Maybe an alligator rising out of the can and biting their asses?
Jun 1, 2011 at 10:31 pm rating: 45
#16
chesire cat
This is probably a flame worthy comment but most people I know who use tanning beds are trashy so you know…….
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:03 pm rating: 9
#17
Jen-ay
The worst part for me is that there were five examples from five different places to include in this. Apparently, this is pretty common.
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:04 pm rating: 28
#18
trillium
Every time I think I couldn’t be more disgusted by people, I read something like this. Seriously, WTF??!?
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:08 pm rating: 6
#19
Pit Pat
Wait – where does A Total Tan get off titling their note “Health Notice?!” Since when were tanning salons concerned about anyone’s health?
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:11 pm rating: 28
#20
Leonna
eww – I just started using a tanning salon so I dont burn – again – when I go on vacation. But now I’m curious – who the HELL pees in a garbage can or in the TANNING BED THEY ARE LAYING IN?
What type of person thinks to themselves “oh, well, whatever, I’m just going to sit in my own urine as it heats up around me. Helps bring out the color in my asscheeks.”
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:34 pm rating: 24
#21
JetJackson
The ‘flat bottom taco’ kid says…
“Why not just remove the bins from the room?”
♫“Yaaaahhy! Dah-da-da-da-da-dah-dah dah-dah-dah dah-dah-dah-dah! ♫
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:40 pm rating: 21
#22
James L.
To all of the guys whom I have made fun of in the past after reading about you being arrested for installing hidden video cameras in tanning salons, I hereby apologize.
I had assumed that you were all perverts. I now realize that you were merely health inspectors.
Jun 1, 2011 at 11:53 pm rating: 20
#23
Canthz_B
All I can say is, “Hahahahaha, you need a tanning bed to get some color and I was born with it…and can pee without losing toning time…and the color is free, doesn’t fade away, doesn’t cause skin cancer, but helps prevent it. Not a bad trade-off in the end!!”
Jun 2, 2011 at 12:23 am rating: 5
#24
Canthz_B
I’ve never been to a tanning salon, but now I can imagine what they must smell like.
If you’ve never been, urine for a surprise.
Jun 2, 2011 at 12:26 am rating: 19
#25
Earl Hamsher
i’ve seen stories like this a lot. apparently it’s very common for people to use the trashcan as a toilet in tanning rooms. i really don’t give a shit though as i believe tanners are 99% shitheads anyway. let them smell each other’s poo.
Jun 2, 2011 at 12:42 am rating: 8
#26
Canthz_B
Use our bathroom facilities.
This is not the wilderness.
If it were, you’d be out in the sun and would not need our tanning facilities.
You’d be an active, outgoing person unashamed of your natural appearance. Not someone paying us to help you build your self-esteem in a most superficial way.
BTW, your membership expires at the end of the month. Please see Sandra at the front desk to continue paying us to give you a temporary sense of well-being.
Jun 2, 2011 at 12:57 am rating: 33
#27
KJS
Oh. Good. God. I knew there was a reason I’ve always been irrationally wary around unseasonably orange people. I guess it’s not just an Oompa Loompa phobia after all…
Jun 2, 2011 at 3:25 am rating: 8
#28
Daisy
Wow – I have never tanned in a salon but it shocks me to think that people would do this…It’s insane!
Jun 2, 2011 at 7:32 am rating: 1
#29
havingfitz
I’d love to leave these people a voicemail advising them to come back to the tanning salon at once to retrieve their lost property, and then hand them a baggie upon their return. “Here. I’m sure you didn’t mean to throw this away.”
Jun 2, 2011 at 7:36 am rating: 24
#30
Pit Pat
HEALTH NOTICE
Toilet Issues
The Restroom is not a Tanning Room!
It is extremely dangerous for A Total Toilet employees to clean up trash cans and under rugs that people have used instead of the tanning bed. This will no longer be tolerated!
A Total Toilet has a record of everyone using each toilet. In the future, using the toilet as a tanning room will not be tolerated. This will be very embarrassing to you!
It is not embarrassing for us to restart your toilet if you need to stop before or during your session. Simply put on your clothes and ask the employee to stop your toilet session.
Jun 2, 2011 at 8:21 am rating: 3
#31
Buck
Glad I live in Arizona where tanning salons are really not a necessity of life. I always thought people who went to those things were a little gross on general principles but it’s nice to have empirical evidence that they’re disgusting. Ewww….
Jun 2, 2011 at 9:09 am rating: 1
#32
Canthz_B
Peeing inside a tanning bed isn’t tanning…it’s braising.
Jun 2, 2011 at 9:27 am rating: 24
#33
Nope
While this habit is certainly disgusting, couldn’t the problem by solved by putting actual toilets in the rooms with the tanning beds?
Jun 2, 2011 at 9:44 am rating: 4
#34
Canthz_B
Which episode of “The Golden Girls” was this again?
Jun 2, 2011 at 9:59 am rating: 2
#35
Victoria
It just goes to show the people who would use a tanning salon are such selfish assholes that they assume this behavior is fine, and that their pee isn’t gross in anyway because it’s THEIRS. I’m a professional body piercer and you wouldn’t believe the grossness I witness because humans assume their own staph bacteria/blood is harmless and have zero concept of cross contamination. “I got this pierced and now it hurts”… as I watch them rub their dirty finger into and then attempt to touch other things in the shop, including the door on the way out… I need a bubble.
Jun 2, 2011 at 11:01 am rating: 10
#36
danielle
I used to work at a tanning salon and, yes, this did happen to us numerous times! Freakin disgusting!! I mean seriously, our computers know who is in each room, so we know who you are! Although by the time we would go to clean the room, they’d be long gone & usually would never come back for a scolding…such a gross job, never mind the massive puddles of sweat on the beds, or the period blood :/
Jun 2, 2011 at 12:27 pm rating: 2
#37
Name Withheld
I have a friend who has worked at a major dept. store. She told me they have found poop in the dressing rooms on more than one occasion. Evidently this kind of act is rampant.
Jun 2, 2011 at 5:29 pm rating: 2
#38
Robyn
I worked at a tanning salon while in college…its a great job while being in school. Three times I had to clean up after someone. Thank God it was only a #1. It was so offensive and disrespectful. After the first incident we started checking the garbage before and after each person. By the third time, I found out exactly who it was. A 15-year old girl! Needless to say a very, very embaressing conversation was had with her and her mom who signed her waiver to go tanning as she was underage. Shame on her and anyone else who does the same.
Jun 2, 2011 at 7:36 pm rating: 7
#39
Carl
I’ve never been to a tanning salon before, and I’m very confused by this post. One typically lies in a tanning BED, right? Where exactly are these people relieving themselves?
Jun 8, 2011 at 10:27 am rating: 0
#40
Sadie
A Total Tan is in my hometown, where there is a huge university (which definitely attracts a huge number of Jersey Shore kids), and their tans cost $3 or something–that combination is dangerous, and, apparently, potentially disgusting…ah, students are gross.
Jun 9, 2011 at 1:12 pm rating: 0
#41
Elizabeth
GTS.
Gym. Tan. Shit.
Jun 30, 2011 at 3:34 am rating: 0
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