We all hate public bathrooms right?
Wrong....
But I'm not here to be a huge buzzkill, so here's my story.
I was in Copenhagen and had to use the bathroom. There was a stall on the street that was totally free (rarity in european countries tbh). It was some high tech marvel, self-cleaning piece of... idk how to describe it. Actually this. It was very much like this:
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But not this exact thing. [/spoili]
Anyway, to make a long story short, I had multiple problems.
- couldn't figure out how to close the door behind me. Took me like 5 minutes to figure this shit out
- could not figure out how to lock the damn door behind me. Finally gave up and told my mom to guard the door.
- Couldn't figure out how to flush
- couldn't figure out how to work the faucet
- WHY IS THIS BATHROOM SMARTER THAN I AM
Exited the bathroom, there were other tourists behind me, I started apologizing about the condition I left the bathroom in (you know, being unable to flush and all that) and then, all by itself, the door closed and the stall commenced its 5 minute cleaning ritual, where it presumably cleaned fucking everything and left it sparkly clean, much to my and the other tourists' amusement (and lament, since they really didn't want to wait to use the bathroom).
I don't know, I left in sheer embarrassment.
You Europeans need some toilet standards. You have so many different types of toilets with so many different ways of operating them that I actually started taking photos of them to document how many different designs there are.
Actually now that I mention that, let me see if I took a pic of this damn smartass toilet.
[10 minutes later]
Looks like I didn't. Guess I was in too much of a hurry to leave. So here, have this toilet from Helsinki (or possibly Turku, I can't remember), Finland instead:
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European toilets need to come with instruction manuals, alright.
Especially you, Britian. Who the fuck flushes toilets by pulling a cords in the ceiling?
and Ireland, why the fuck is a cord in the ceiling how you operate the hot water for the shower?
Y'all's plumbing standards are all fucked up.