Should public restrooms have shoe cleaning stations?

submitted by x0x7 from (self.AskSaidIt)

Ok, this is an uncomfortable question but it might be worth talking about.

We clean our hands when we leave a public restroom. I hope you all do. But have you seen the floor in a mens public restroom? I don't understand if people's homes look like this, but there is often a puddle of piss right beneath a urinal. We really do live with animals. Maybe it's just the area I live in.

But this is the real reason why we don't eat food off of the ground. People walk into public restrooms and they track that shit everywhere. They have no other option. If it weren't for that the ground would actually be reliably pretty sanitary. A little shoe rubber that itself has only ever been on clean surfaces would be cleaner than any sponge used to wipe a table. I'm not saying we should eat off the ground if we did solve this problem. The point is concern about the ground being dirty is legitimate, but it's worth noting that it is almost only due to the existence of public bathrooms. And even if you never go into a public bathroom it is still a concern because you or your family/peers walked over ground that someone else walked over who had been in a public restroom.

I think it is ironic that we do wash our hands because our shoes probably do more to contaminate public areas than if people didn't wash their hands.

So the need is obvious. The question is if there is a solution that isn't worse than the cure.

Here is my idea. A three station set up against a wall. One is a shallow basin of sanitizer. The next is a rubber mat used to get the bulk of the fluid off. Something like this. The next would just be a standard commercial rug. The rubber mat in between would prevent the rug from getting so wet it doesn't do anything.

I'm talking about 2 millimeters of sani-fluid on your shoe rubber. Would that be so bad? Of course the same people who piss on the floor will never use it but at least now I'm not tracking it.

Women, do other women just openly piss of the floor in your bathrooms? Maybe this is next level shopping cart theory. If you return a shopping cart it means you can build civilization. If you walk into a restroom and just piss on the open floor you can't be in civilization. If you are somewhere in between civilization can exist in spite of you despite your incapacity to create it.

Good idea? Bad idea? https://img.gvid.tv/img/3ouotsob.png

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[–]Smalls 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When I stop seeing grown men walk out from a stall without washing their hands, then I may entertain the idea of keeping shoes clean. Maybe the door lock should be de-activated by 30 seconds of running water from the sink faucet.

[–]x0x7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Now that’s an idea. With AI we can process video without storing it or having a human look at it. With a camera we can see that they did the job.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That would be a pain to clean.

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think most people would use them, also there's germs everywhere not just in restrooms.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I like the idea but I'm not sure how much cleaner it would make things, every time a toliet is flushed it's aerosolizing the particles and this is gross ... but I'm not sure most people realize how common accidentally getting sprayed with droplets of your own piss reflected weirdly from a urinal is. I wear flip flops all the time, it's very gross when it happens.