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Ask Dave and Luke: Are the Pike Place Market bathroom doors too short?

Aug 3, 2012, 12:57 PM | Updated: Oct 11, 2024, 1:15 pm

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Ross and Burbank
discuss and hear from listeners on dirty bathroom
behavior. (AP Photo/file)

The Seattle Times recently posted a story about a
Canadian tourist that wrote a letter to the mayor and Pike
Place Market about the poor quality of the bathrooms at
Washington’s most visited tourist destination. The man
reportedly thought the bathroom stall doors were too short
and made using the restroom humiliating.

Dave Ross says bathrooms seem to be something no
civilization gets right.

“I have commonly left places because I don’t want to
use the facilities,” says Luke Burbank.

He says the city should just add more privacy and says
even if the short doors eliminate opportunity for
criminals, he’s willing to trade off for the added
privacy.

“Even if someone was shooting up in the stall next to
me, if they had a full door, they could shut it away from
me. I would rather have more door in any bathroom
situation than less door.”

Listener Glenn in Seattle disagrees:

You are wrong on the toilets. The more privacy, the
more disgusting people are. I have worked in a public
retail store and people throw feces, pee all over, not to
mention leaving needles and other paraphernalia around.
Short doors are a good thing. Also, women are not cleaner
than men, at least in public. Ask any janitor and they
will agree, at least ours have. I’ve heard very disgusting
stories.

Luke had suggested women keep things tidier in their
restrooms than men.

“Women’s bathroom experience is vastly different than
guy’s bathroom experiences in most public bathrooms. Women
keep them cleaner,” Luke says.

Listener Terrie in University Place responds:

Women’s bathrooms are just as disgusting as men’s.
Especially in bars or clubs! They’re usually filthy,
feminine products can be a problem when they’re not
wrapped, stinky gross. The ladies bathroom at my work (a
medical facility) is soooo disgusting, pee all over the
seats and number 2 residue Yuck! and reality check…many
woman don’t wash their hands either ugh!

Ken in Puyallup says he’s seen the worst of the
worst:

Ex-truckdriver, and I have seen the worst bathrooms
on the planet…2nd rule of truckdriving, learn how to
flush the toilet with your foot…1st rule of truck
driving, have good balance. If you fall, you will want to
burn ALL your clothes.

Listen for all of Ross and Burbank’s Friday
Magic Message responses:

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