Not only schools. We went to dinner at the Slanted Door in San Francisco last night. An upscale trendy restaurant at the Ferry Building. When you spend nearly $500 for dinner for six, the very least you would expect is some privacy to allow men and women to ‘do their business’, touch up their makeup and hair or chit chat privately.
I went to use the restroom before dinner. There are 4 enclosed stalls with locking doors and a common area for washing your hands. I walked in and men were milling about, one came out of one of the stalls. When I entered, the seat was up, pees drop all around, the bowl was full of piss and the manual override flush mechanism didn’t work. I didn’t use it and then waited 4 hours until I got home to use a restroom.
Civlilized, progressive, inclusive, tolerant???? No, Absolutely DISGUSTING. I barely like sharing the restroom with the men in my family. Since it’s San Francisco, there’s no consideration for people with young or even teenaged children to have some privacy and safety. I always think of my 90 yr old mother-in-law having to stand in line with a bunch of men and walking into a stall that was just evacuated by a man..... These people rally have no sense of decency whatsoever.....(don’t even get me started on the extra 8% tacked onto your bill for health care....)
I wonder if you should have made a complaint - not about same sex bathrooms but about the pigs who wrecked the stall you were using. Enough complaints might get some restaurateurs thinking.
San Francisco. There’s your problem.
I would have told the manager on duty about the condition of it. Also, I would tell them that for $125 per person, I would st least have clean restrooms. (Side note: For $125, we could feed the boys for 4 days...). If I ever go to SF, I’m not going there...(Slanted Door).
Same exact setup at Firefly Restaurant here in Sherman Oaks. High end restaurant with unisex bathroom. I made the personal executive decision to hold it in until I got home. The male friends in my dinner party didn't care if it was a mixed bathroom. But I do. I flat out will not be in such a familiar private situation with men.