Touring Restrooms?!?!
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
September 5, 2010 11:35pm CST
I dunno if this is weird or a neat idea. There's a tour guide in German who shows people all the different types of potties to be found! Now I dunno if it's even a tour worth bragging about but rather chuckling about. Would pay money to go on such a tour?
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINTRE68231220100903
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@LaurenInLA (2270)
• United States
6 Sep 10
I can't imagine that anyone would actually pay money to go on a tour of restrooms but then again you will always find people who spend their money in silly ways. Don't know if you're old enough to remember the pet rock craze that caught on about 20 or so years ago.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 10
I thought the pet rock thing was in the 60's or 70's? It was before my time. Though on the line of that is what I think about the hermit crab as a pet. Seems like getting them a fancy painted shell was all that any kid cared about not the actual crab.
@hardworkinggurl (37062)
• United States
6 Sep 10
Figuratively speaking though when you gotta go you gotta go. Suppose it was the only toilet available and you really have to go. Wouldn't you dish out money asap to do your business. 
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
6 Sep 10
At least if a potty was part of the tour you'd know it was well maintained! I wouldn't take such a tour myself--a potty is a potty.
I remember rest areas with outhouse type potties, just seats over a hole in the ground. I'm glad those are gone!
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 10
I remember using one of those at a rest stop when we were driving around up north. Man talk about stinky & ridden with flies! But you know that's how they did it before indoor plumbing. I know MIL used to say when she was a kid they'd plant a garden in the vacinity of where the out house used to sit... though they say it's not safe to do so now days.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Sep 10
Why not? People go out of their way to see the men's room at the Madonna Inn, so why not other interesting restrooms?
@savypat (20216)
• United States
6 Sep 10
This is not that bad an idea, as an elderly person I am often in need of a restroom in a strange city or town, I would pay for a list of clean ones
issued by the Chamber of Commerce. As for the tour that would depend on how much I needed to use a restroom.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 10
I hear you about wanting to know where a clean toilet is! Trust me I got over not using public rest rooms when I was pregnant cause you had to go ALL the time!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
8 Sep 10
Funny enough, both of my children have gone through a stage in their lives that I've affectionately called the potty inspector stage. That said, I actually think that it would be quite interesting to take a tour like this. I really would have thought that it wouldn't have been something that would be interesting to me, but last year a friend of mine took a trip to Japan and shared the Eastern toilet with us and I thought that it was interesting. Besides that, there really are some beautiful bathrooms in the world as well.
@bounce58 (17380)
• Canada
9 Sep 10
I don't know about a tour, but my son has a habit of visiting restrooms wherever we go. We would be in a restaurant and he would surely run off there even if he doesn't have to go. Even if we are just passing by a hotel, and he would go and visit. He would pretend that he has to go, but I could never tell.
Maybe when he grows up he could be a client for that German tour!
@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
6 Sep 10
No,I would not pay money to tour restrooms. I have posted both here and on Gather about rest areas I have visited across the United States, though.
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
6 Sep 10
That sounds like a very different tour indeed. I am an experienced traveler and I have been to some rough looking restrooms in some places in the world. I was traveling in Los Angeles and the restroom didn't have any cubicles. It was essentially a room with lots of toilets in it. I was traveling in Indonesia and the restroom was a tire in the middle of a petrol station. I preferred using the bushes where I could get some privacy. These days I have a three year old son that needs catheter care. He is too long to lay on a baby change mat. He is heavy and nearly takes a baby change station off the wall. I wouldn't wish to go on a tour of restrooms.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Sep 10
hi 3SnuggleBunnines I had to think on this one while chuckling and forgot to respond. It might be interesting as I am curious why one would want to tour different types of potties, I shoulder to think of a tour here in my US specially at some service stations as those potties would have all the tour people upchucking so that would no do. We do have some places like some of the nicer malls here where the restrooms are really as c lean or cleaner than in a hospital, and they even have self flushing toilets too.
But brag about it,I dunno either. I was just thinking of the movable ones they set up out on the marine base a few years back when the blue angels did their annual air show. some of these were so over used well lets just not even go there , that surely would not be on a tour here. In one new mall they had bidets which is a different experience for most Americans while other countries use them all the time. I sort of liked the idea really . it was very clean and very sanitary too. just a tad
unnerving at first.
@gdesjardin (1918)
• United States
6 Sep 10
Wow! That is a little weird. I personally wouldn't spend money looking at different potties. It makes you wonder why this particular tour guide would think of such a thing. Strange!
