Things you see with an active bladder.

Yeah, yeah, I am old and need to use the restrooms more often than young buck. Most of the things you see in public bathrooms are not that unusual, but this last week I saw a couple of things that made me pull out the phone and record for posterity.

First one at a gas station was the white-ish box on the left.

It turned out to be a sharps container for needles and other contaminated things that poke.

That box looks like it has been there for some time now and begs the question about the type of clientele that populates the neighborhood. Insulin and related Glucose-control users are very unlikely to be applying dosages of their medications in a public bathroom because they strive to avoid sepsis. Same can be said for other medication short of the emergency use of an epi-pen and stuff like that. Ladies and gents, that is what the safety and self-defense experts define a a big fucking clue that less than desirable critters abound nearby.

This next one is a doozy.

This is at a location with elderly and handicapped people. If one of those individuals were to fall while using the toilet or become sick to the point of needing help, then a simple pull of the sting activates the alarm and help will come rushing in. That is unless some effing idiot decides to tie the pull string to the grab bar reding the device useless. My guess is that some neuron-challenged staff member realized the string was too long and rather than shortening it by trimming the excess, decided it would be a good idea to wrap it and tie a knot so it would not touch the ground. It would be unsanitary otherwise, right?

I am hoping that string was tied just 30 seconds prior to me using that particular facility because otherwise that says a lot about the “give-a-shit” level of care at that facility that shall remain unnamed.