Public restrooms

I avoid using public resrooms for the Big Event. But today, well, maybe you've had one of those days where you just cannot avoid having to use a public restroom for the sit-down job. Today was one of those days and in addition to absoutely having to use the public restroom I didn't have much in the way of choices considering where I was.

So, as U.S. citizens we're subject to all kinds of health codes: Restaurant workers are required to wash their hands before returning to work; restaurants have to pass health department inspections; in Missouri at least you're required to pick up a clean plate each time you head to the buffet. The DCFS can come in and take away your children if your house isn't clean. You can't give home made canned products to to the poor because some buerocrat says you might kill a poor homeless person from botulism. I've even heard that some health departments are going after church potluck dinners because all that food brought from home spreads death and destruction.

But if you have a public restroom, as is required by most business establishments serving customers, you can have people shit and piss in and all over it and don't really have to worry much about cleaning it up. As far as I know there are no state or federal regulations setting minimum standards for public restroom cleanliness. There ought to be.

When you enter a restaurant there's a health department sticker plastered on the front door and its almost always an A rating. I think there should be a second sticker on the front door with the establishment's bathroom rating.