We used to have this joke; "You're about as funny as a pay toilet in a diarrhea ward."
I said that to my kids once and they looked at me like I had two heads!
2007-12-28 07:02:11 · 24 answers · asked by jersey girl in exile 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
We paid them off finally ......
2007-12-28 08:12:38 · answer #1 · answered by Diana 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do remember pay toilets and I remember people asking for change in a big hurry so they could get in to the toilets. The bus terminal in our town was the last of the pay toilets that i've ever seen. I don't know why they discontinued them.
2007-12-28 07:07:19 · answer #2 · answered by Wrong number 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes even in the ritzy department stores. As a child I did once climb under.
In Germany at the fairs you must put a donation in a bowl and if you want toilet paper you must pay. I noticed it was mostly gypsys collecting the money at the fairs.
2007-12-28 09:23:34 · answer #3 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember them and always made sure I had dimes when I went shopping.
This reminds me of a cute greeting card I saw years ago. On the front a guy trying to crawl under the door of a pay toilet ; the catchphrase was "It's H_ _L without money". :>O
2007-12-28 13:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Eyes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember pay toilets & often wondered why a person had to pay for doing a normal body function. I never heard that joke before. It's funny!!!
2007-12-28 07:58:54 · answer #5 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Gosh! I haven't thought about those in years. I saw them quite frequently when I was a child. Crawled under. Didn't all kids? Had to pay a few times when I was older, but in busy restrooms woman usually held the door open for the next lady. That's probably why they did away them. Couldn't make enough money. I'll bet people broke into to them too and ruined the mechanisms.
2007-12-28 07:45:08 · answer #6 · answered by curious connie 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm in Calif. also and the "Pay" toilets are in McDonald's and some gas stations but if you buy something there, you can ask the attendant or cashier for a token.
It's just a way to keep the homeless from setting up shop in there.
2007-12-28 09:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by Dan Bueno 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where I live (in Calif.), there are still "pay toilets" in laundromats. If I am "out and about"(and have to use the bathroom) and am near a laundromat, I go in there, put in my quarter, and use the facilities. I don't have a car, so can't just "drive" to the nearest fast food place to use theirs.. Doesn't anyone have pay toilets in the laundromats anymore?
2007-12-28 08:29:13 · answer #8 · answered by Judith H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
right here in my international places there are some public loos that are loose and a few we ought to pay around 10 cents USD. Our government be attentive to abt this and did no longer something ... right here the conventional public facility is amazingly destructive. yet while u question me no count number if i p.c. to pay funds to apply public rest room? the respond is confident EVERYTIME... reason that's cleanser. I consistently stay away from the loose public rest room reason i in simple terms can not stand ... it is so grimy and the odour oooh ... poor
2016-10-20 04:59:29 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't really remember them here in the States, but they drove me crazy in Europe a couple years ago. Couldn't believe we had to pay to "p"....and most of the time I couldn't figure out what coins were necessary to open the darn door and had to rely on the kindness of others. It was definitely a test on bladder control.....lol!
2007-12-28 11:02:38 · answer #10 · answered by night-owl gracie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I went to a bowling alley once in the sixties that had them, I was from the country, I had never seen such a thing. and I was with my grandparents, don't remember where we were, around New Orleans I think.
2007-12-28 09:38:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋