OK, so I will probably land on r/suspiciouslyspecific, but this topic is my bane. First off, we need to differentiate between public WCs, which are usually small huts you find in parking lots that are easily accessible without getting off the Autobahn, and the private WCs you get in rest areas where you can only use them after paying a small fee.
Of the first kind there are enough spread out throughout Germany, but the second kind is much rarer. Now, the first kind of WCs can go from decently dirty, that is, you are not stepping in 10cm of piss and there is at least soap when you wash your hands, to a Pollock mural made out of shit on the stall’s door and not even water is coming out of the faucet. Every time you are entering one of these, it’s playing poker with fate.
The second kind is, as I said, rarer, and the average cleanliness and amenity level is not that bad. However, they cost 1€ a pop. The Germans here will say “What do you complain, it’s actually free as you get the money back in the form of barter you can use at the rest area’s shop”. Fine with me, so I will go, my GF will go and we will get a shitty 5€ coffee for 3€ instead. No, wrong, they cannot be combined, only one per purchase. I have now started fucking with the cashiers and when I have a bunch of them, I get like a bunch of small items and ask for a different invoice each time. They won’t get me to bend down.
However, there is a third kind, which are just random porter potties that are not even anchored to the ground and their doors do not close either. These look like the docks of Beirut a few years back if the nitrate explosion took place inside a septic tank. Sometimes, I have the feeling they haven’t been cleaned since Berlin still had the wall. But somehow, this is the only option you get in some areas, especially in rural Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt.
So, the thinness of this sheet of toilet paper is only a small part of a generally unpleasant experience that every German has to go through on a regular basis.
Carpaccio of paper
It’s copy paper.
Every time you copy a piece of 💩 you use some copy paper.
Toilettenpapier is what you are looking for
Well r/fuckcars use a train toilet instead. For short journeys you do not need to use a public toilet anyway.
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OK, so I will probably land on r/suspiciouslyspecific, but this topic is my bane. First off, we need to differentiate between public WCs, which are usually small huts you find in parking lots that are easily accessible without getting off the Autobahn, and the private WCs you get in rest areas where you can only use them after paying a small fee.
Of the first kind there are enough spread out throughout Germany, but the second kind is much rarer. Now, the first kind of WCs can go from decently dirty, that is, you are not stepping in 10cm of piss and there is at least soap when you wash your hands, to a Pollock mural made out of shit on the stall’s door and not even water is coming out of the faucet. Every time you are entering one of these, it’s playing poker with fate.
The second kind is, as I said, rarer, and the average cleanliness and amenity level is not that bad. However, they cost 1€ a pop. The Germans here will say “What do you complain, it’s actually free as you get the money back in the form of barter you can use at the rest area’s shop”. Fine with me, so I will go, my GF will go and we will get a shitty 5€ coffee for 3€ instead. No, wrong, they cannot be combined, only one per purchase. I have now started fucking with the cashiers and when I have a bunch of them, I get like a bunch of small items and ask for a different invoice each time. They won’t get me to bend down.
However, there is a third kind, which are just random porter potties that are not even anchored to the ground and their doors do not close either. These look like the docks of Beirut a few years back if the nitrate explosion took place inside a septic tank. Sometimes, I have the feeling they haven’t been cleaned since Berlin still had the wall. But somehow, this is the only option you get in some areas, especially in rural Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt.
So, the thinness of this sheet of toilet paper is only a small part of a generally unpleasant experience that every German has to go through on a regular basis.
Carpaccio of paper
It’s copy paper.
Every time you copy a piece of 💩 you use some copy paper.
Toilettenpapier is what you are looking for
Well r/fuckcars use a train toilet instead. For short journeys you do not need to use a public toilet anyway.