Another Person Denied the use of a business restroom

Sorry it's been a while since I've been on....all good with me but I thought you might find this interesting.

http://consumerist.com/5354646/plaid-pantry-says-bathroom-off-limits-lets-customer-poop-pants

Sorry Fixed the link

Post Edited (Mac_Gyver) : 9/8/2009 1:07:39 PM (GMT-6)

Her only mistake was in leaving the store. She should have stayed right there to let him see the results of his pigheadedness.

Ugh, it makes me sad to read these stories, and even more sad that one day it could be happening to me.  Luckily though Pennsylvania is a pending state for the law to pass.

I can see both sides of the story, however I think the employee was a total jerk for laughing at her. That's just rude and inhumane. I suppose having some kind of card or something would make the situation run a lot more smoothly, I can understand that some of these places only have their restrooms in places where stuff can easily be stolen, and might have had things like that happen in the past. However, if they were that worried about it, an employee could accompany the person and wait outside to make sure nothing is stolen (unless only one person is working or something, then I guess it wouldn't be possible). I really hope I never find myself in a similar situation though, it's too bad that so many people are dishonest and make it harder for people to trust strangers going into employee-only zones.

I've usually beg people and that works for me.
But I usually am in a bad way... Red faced,sweating,cramped up...
If they laughed at me ???????I'm not sure what I'd do...
Hope I never find out.

I have worn a pad and still had enough poop come out that it did not matter what protection I had on. I know that because of the little girl at Old Navy I still boycot that company 100%, no matter what they say their policy is now. I wish this store was national so I could boycot is too.

I am so sorry any of us have to deal with this accident happening in public places. It is bad enough to not make it across my house but the times I have been in the car or in public, it just does something to your soul.

May we all find peace.

Ok I have worn diapers and the problem is I have so much explosive poo that it leaks out of the diaper. I need astronaut diapers, you know the ones with legs.

It doesn't make sense. Anybody who has ever had anything to do with a baby knows that a nappy / diaper solves nothing - as soon as it's soiled, it smells and makes the person wearing it miserable, and needs to be changed.... and that will also need to happen in a bathroom (usually with a shower at that point).

I do believe in karma and that guy has his coming.

Well, and what I want to know is if they expect people to wear and use their diapers instead of the restroom, where do you dispose of said soiled diaper? Because you generally would change a child's in the BATHROOM. And I doubt people are thinking about how miserable someone is wearing one...or how badly it smells, but I think they would quickly reverse that suggestion to us once they realized what it actually meant for them. Unfortunately it seems they won't care otherwise it affects them personally.

People make me so mad..

Nice going SnowCrystal. I have had dirty looks from people before but non say anything. Pehaps its a man thing , and the fact that I look back at them as if to say, "open your mouth and you wont need a toilet because I'll knock crap out oy you."

To me it's just sickening that our society can be this cruel about something another can't help! I got real sick today, thankfully I was at home, but I did NOT make it to my own bathroom. I can't imagine having to deal with that, only to have some clerk tell me no bathroom. I mean what is really worse to them? Someone using their bathroom or me standing there with poop running down my legs?

People need to think of others a little more.