The police probably shouldn’t have looked up the license plate. However, it is a pet peeve of mine that businesses that maintain restrooms for their customers get taken advantage of by people who stop but do not purchase anything. My husband and I travel often by car and see this often especially at McDonalds. In my opinion it is just dishonest and rude. If one doesn’t want to purchase something, there are roadside travel stops. It is the old “something for nothing” attitude. It is just too prevalent today.
I sometimes stop and use the restroom at McDonalds, if I need to, because I am a customer of McDonalds.
I may not buy anything on that particular instance, but I have done business with them before and will do business with them again.
If I owned a business, I would not mind at all if travelers stopped and used the restrooms. If I ever get the urge and am shopping at a nearby town, I always use Lowe’s because they are the cleanest.
I also do a lot of shopping there tho not necessarily at the same time I visit their bathrooms
Using a restroom is dishonest?
>>The police probably shouldn’t have looked up the license plate. However, it is a pet peeve of mine that businesses that maintain restrooms for their customers get taken advantage of by people who stop but do not purchase anything.<<
I can assure you the businesses don’t feel that way. Not only are you ignorant of the fact that the individual may be a regular customer all but the time you see them, you’re thinking of it like its your home with someone ringing the doorbell to come and use your bathroom. Businesses with public restrooms don’t care if one hundred or one thousand visit them. But the more people that come into their store for ANY reason, the better. If they don’t come in, they won’t buy. If they do, they might.
I will grant you the very small mom and pops feel like you do, but for the bigger chains, toilet supplies cost almost nothing compared to their annual revenue.
I go to McDonalds regularly, I like their Cokes and I get something to eat there several times a week and I often get breakfast for the whole office. This is all at the drive up window. Now there are some days when McDonalds is the closest bathroom and I don’t want anything to eat or drink and I go use their restroom.
Believe me, I have given them enough business that me using their restroom once every couple of months w/o buying anything is not dishonest or rude.
Sometimes I go in and then get back in my car and go through the drive through to get what I want cuz it is going to be faster than ordering in the restarant. Many times when we are traveling my husband drops me off to go to the bathroom, goes through the drive up and then picks me up.
That’s thing about making judgements without the whole story.
Oh, get over yourself. I live on the road in my job. You have to take care of Nature’s call, the last thing you think about is buying some damned piss poor excuse for “food” to do it. You go in, you don’t soil the place, you don’t hurt a damned soul, you take care of business....you leave.
Sue me.
Guess I have to start budgeting for bu***hit fast food whenever I have to stop to please your ilk. What has this country come to......
Have yet to see a rest area in a city.
Sometimes you have no choice but to find the nearest restroom, or would you rather people just take care of their business on the side of the road? If i’m on the road, i try not to drink soda, so even buying a soda from a fast food restaurant would sometimes be just a waste of money.
Using a public restroom in a business is a crime to you? Nice attitude. I hope you at least practice what you preach.
You're correct of course. The me first entitlement attitude is disgusting.
I’d figure if I looked over their shelves real good to see if there’s something I might want to get, I’ve “shopped” them well enough.
If a business has a clearly displayed policy that their restrooms are for customers only your comment would have some credence. There was a time when "service" stations used to lock their restrooms in order to keep them maintained and folks had to ask for a key to gain access. Those don't exist much more and rest stops are few and far between.
When one is driving along the road and decides one needs to pull over to heed the call of nature to relieve oneself, they are to be called “Dishonest and rude” Hmm
How are they being dishonest exactly? And why is it rude to take advantage of a “public” restroom?
Only on interstates-not on secondary routes. Of course, there's always roadside bushes. A certain percentage of people who stop at McDonalds to use the rest room do, in fact, buy something, even if it's only a cup of coffee (a high profit margin item). If they don't stop at all, you can be certain that they buy nothing.
Sometimes the next rest stop is 20 minutes further away than one can hold it...How many folks decide that they're just going to "get something for free" and then do it by "oh my God" using a restroom without making a purchase?
Balderdash. If I am a regular customer of a business, I have absolutely no qualms about using their restrooms even if I happen not to buy something ON THAT VISIT.
I've stopped at McDonalds many times and they made a profit off me each and every time...But I rarely used their bathrooms...They owe me a lot of trips to the bathroom...
BS...I buy stuff at McD’s and never use their facilities...once in a while I stop to pee and do not buy anything. Until they put up a sign saying I can’t, I will do that when I need to go. If McD’s didn’t want this to happen, they could make a person wanting to pee in their pot have to get a key from a clerk at the counter.
And btw, it has nothing to do with ‘something for nothing’...get a life.
When I lived in Ireland back in the late ‘70’s it was sometimes necessary to use the sheep loo...it was often hard to find any public facility.
So basically you and your wife look down at people who use the bathroom. You two sound like such lovely people.