The Wet:
I hate going to the toilet in Seef Mall..
Why does everyone think that wet is ‘clean’?! Once you walk into a toilet the floor is wet and covered in dust mud and the seat is also drowned with water and God knows whatever liquids, even when you use some loo roll just to rinse off the water.. Surprise Surprise! The toilet roll is soaking wet!
And to top off all this, even the door and its handle are soaking wet and because people keep on doing this the wood of the door starts to rot and starts to look like a bloody shipwreck under the sea!
The Uno:
What I mean by the Uno is when two restaurants adjacent to each other share one toilet. I find this disgusting! For instance, we’ve got Dairy Queen and Chilis right next to eachother in ‘The Centre’ or Alawi Complex whatever they want to call it anymore.
Anyways, these two popular outlets share one toilet and when I mean one toilet I mean one sink and one bowl for each sex. Now from an eye count there was at least 40 seats in Dairy Queen, and roughly the same amount or a little less in Chilis. So, in theory if both places were packed you would expect at least 6 or 7 people waiting at each toilet (male/female) queueing praying to God that their bladders won’t burst! This is very unhygienic and unconvenient!
The Uni:
Now, I’ve had used unisex toilets during my time in the UK in train stations and the lot but I was surprised that Bahrain have started using unisex toilets in restaurants, one I will use as an example is, Nando’s in Juffair.
I climbed upstairs to use their facilities and saw two doors opposite eachother thinking that they were male and female toilets. But the problem was that there was no sign on either door making it a lottery situation.
So being the good Muslim I am I opened the door on the right only to find that it was another door to the kitchen. I deducted that the second door would lead me to two other doors (m/f) but no.
It was a single sink and bowl.
Ughhh
I don’t know about you I would feel very awkward walking into a toilet after a woman with the mix of perfume,body spray and body waste odours, or even worse a girl walking into a toilet after I’ve just ’dropped the workers’
Muncinipality Council Members… Do something about this
MORE TOILETS TO THE PEOPLE!
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*** I know the blog looks like a bananarama right now and I apologize! I will fix this once I get home
lol this is funny “**for other toilet related sh*t (pun intended) flush here”
Need not to mention the toilets on the corniche near the New Finance Building. Seems those bogs are always blocked up with nasties and creepies
I haven’t been to the King Faisal Corniche in the longest time but I do know the toilets at the Al-Ghous Corniche in Muharraq are also just as terrible
public toilets and bahrain dont mix. if you feel the need to go, either go home, or go to a 5 star hotel. ahem.
Ammar, when I come to think of it at least our toilets are more civilized than the ones in Saudi especially the ones in the petrol stations *cringes and feels sick*
I saw one of these “Uni” toilets at Costa Coffee in Adliya. I went in, yes expecting to see two doors but found my self staring at a woman putting on make up! She Actually pushed me out with her hands yelling “out! out!”
I looked at the sign and it seemed like a “UNI”. Asked the staff to confirm and they did.
I went back, opened the door again, explained the situation and polietly asked to bugger off and put her make up some where else.
I had erm… some business to take care of.
Ouch! That sounded quite awkward but good for you for telling her what your priorities were at that time lol
wahahahahaha, poor thing you
saudi?
toilets?
ermmm… no thanks…
didn’t know there were uni bathrooms here!! i hope there are locks and only one person can go in at a time!
as far as the wet bathrooms. believe me… you’ve seen nothing until you’ve gone into a govt bathroom – at work! i don’t know what it is, but the ladies there do the same thing! every single day i’d go into one particular bathroom and the same situation you experienced was the case. water everywhere. it was totally disgusting. my clothes would get wet – pants – from having to stand around in that stuff.
i don’t get it. i really don’t.
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Toilet Talk.. The Wet, The Uno and The Uni, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.