Where is it? There are places that sign would be completely warranted. Bourbon Street, 6th Street, on the beach.....

When I was three my grandmother took me to Medimart and I had to use the bathroom. They wouldn't let me. I'm told I pooped in the middle of the aisle.

I see no problem with the "restrooms for customers only" part- But the actual mention of "poop" and "pee" is off-putting. I'd probably go to the Starbucks that's across the street, because they don't put an image of feces into my head when I'm walking through the door.

WELCOME TO OUR SWIMMING OOL
NOTICE THERE IS NO P IN IT
LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY

That's the sign at my local public swimming pool.

Where is it? There are places that sign would be completely warranted. Bourbon Street, 6th Street, on the beach.....

The policy isn't at all uncommon - reserving restrooms for customers only is common practice in the busy parts of nearly every city I've lived in - just the tastelessness of how its expressed.

Maybe the sheer volume of poo I deal with on a daily basis around here has made me completely unbothered by reminders of it. I probably haven't eaten a meal in 8 years without immediately prior changing someone's poo. With 8 mammalian butts in this house (of varying species) I'd starve if poo put me off my food. I think I'd laugh if I saw that, and go ahead and get my coffee. And then probably pee, as chances for me to do THAT in peace are few and far between.

momof4, while we agree on little, I find a fascinating person. I wonder if someday we'll read momof5?

Aside- I have only chaged a few diapers in my life. My first time was outside a Border's book store with my son, in an SUV, as I alternated between changing him and throwing my guts up into a Borders shopping bag.

Aside2- I worked for a grocery store chain when I was 16, and served janitorial duty on Sunday. I had to clean up a women's room once that served as a suicide site for a Vietnamese woman who had shot herself in the head.

You may read momof5 someday, but it would have to be from foster-to-adopt. We'll almost certainly foster in a few years. I imagine I'll fall head over heels with at least one and have to keep it.

I can't fathom that bathroom, Eric. Sorry you had to see that.

In the store, I'm a nation; you're a nation.
But when you're in the bathroom, European.

"It's a privilege to pee
Water's worth its weight
In gold these days
No more bathrooms
Like in olden days
You come here and pay a fee
For the privilege to pee

You think you've got
Some kind of right?
You think you'll come in here and go for free?
The only thing you'll get it "no" for free!
I'm a business gal, you see
I sell the
Privilege to pee!"

Come on, you didn't think that the only theatre actor on this board was gonna let this one go by without the Urinetown reference did you? Ironically enough we are doing that show for our next season...lol!

Rewrite the sign thus:

To see a man about a horse
You have to pay some dough of course!

See how easy that was? And no direct poo or pee references.