Posted on 07/04/2011 6:47:45 AM PDT by markomalley
Hey buddy, can you spare a square?
The city is so hard up for cash that it's rationing toilet paper in women's public restrooms -- to the point where bathroom attendants are doling out a few measly squares per patron -- along the world-famous Coney Island boardwalk.
The Post witnessed stone-faced Parks Department employees leave toilet-paper dispensers empty last week and instead force astonished female beachgoers to form "ration lines" in the bathrooms.
Regina Ballone, 25, of Brooklyn visited a boardwalk bathroom at West 16th Street Wednesday and was "grossed out" at the thought of someone else handling her toilet paper.
"Never in my life have I experienced anything like this," she said. "I walked toward a stall, and a bathroom attendant stopped me by shouting, 'Hey, mami! There's no toilet paper here,' and she whipped out a big roll for me to grab some."
Beachgoers also have been forced to line up for their paltry allotment of the city's cheap, single-ply toilet paper at the boardwalk's other women's restroom at Stillwell Avenue.
Benedikte Friis and Ann Damgaard, both 22, from Denmark, said they enjoyed visiting Coney Island last week -- except when it came to the bathrooms.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Standing in line for toilet paper.....where have I heard that before? Hmm.
So much for Bloomberg’s efforts to clean up the city.
It is beginning. Many of us preppers knew that toilet paper would be the first to disappear.
...and now we see it.
Everyone sing with me. Start spreading the newwwwwwwws...paper.
The city is so hard up for cash that it’s rationing toilet paper in women’s public restrooms — to the point where bathroom attendants are doling out a few measly squares per patron — along the world-famous Coney Island boardwalk.
Government IDIOCY!!
Can not afford toilet paper but can afford to employ a person to hand it out??????
Does anyone think we are not getting screwed by our Government at all levels?
forgive me
I believe they pull stunts like this to cause maximum pain to the taxpayers. It’s why they always threaten to cut firefighters instead of desk jockey bureaucrats, because nobody would care if a desk was empty but they can see a house burning down with nobody to fight the fire. Evil people causing intentional distress to protect their own jobs.
I remember my wife reporting that someone handed her one square of toilet paper when she visited the ladies room during a stopover at the airport in Amman, Jordan.
ML/NJ
City people are so stupid.
People laugh when I tell them that toilet paper will be a valuable trade item once the collapse comes.
But it will be worth its weight in gold.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer State.
I guess Sheryl Crow was right!
“I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.”
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/node/12234#ixzz1R8yafHFu
It’s being stolen. Either in the stalls (a common problem in public restrooms) or straight out of the warehouse. Probably both...
As they say in some parts of Europe, you better tip the attendent pretty good if you want the toilet paper.
Maybe now New Yorkers will “give a crap” who they vote for.
Well it could come down to doing this: BYOTP as in “bring your own toliet paper”.
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