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I Fu**ing Hate Toilet Attendants In Bars

I Fu**ing Hate Toilet Attendants In Bars

I was out for a couple of beers at the weekend in a Bar close to the Tube Station in Hammersmith, not exactly the classiest area in London. I would also hasten to add that the bar wasn’t exactly full of the classiest people either, just your normal Friday night crowd of drunk girls and boys.

As you do when you have had a few pints of lager, (which I may hasten to add, wasn’t the best Fosters I have ever tasted), you need to go for a call of nature. Upon entering the toilets in this second rate bar, which was selling over priced drinks, I couldn’t’ believe that there was a toilet attendant standing there greeting me as I entered.

Now if there is something that I really hate, it is toilet attendants in bars and especially in rather small and narrow toilets like this one. For me going for a pee is something that doesn’t require someone standing there, watching you with there beady little eyes and believe me this wackjob was watching everyone too closely.

It really wasn’t my day, just as I tried to unzip my jeans, my fly got stuck for a couple of seconds and for a very horrible moment in time, it looked like the wackjob toilet attendant was going to come over and lend me a helping hand. I gave him a look that told him to forget it, come near me and you will end up wishing you never.

My old flat mate would have got stage fright by the mere presence of  toilet attendants and would have had me turning on the tap to help him deal with the problem!

I don’t know about you, but I don’t need someone to put some soap on my hands for me and to turn on the tap for me, I don’t know where his hands have been? And do you really think, I would want to put any of those knock off aftershaves on my skin, no chance that stuff gives you a rash.

The guy next to me was spraying on the Hugo Boss fake aftershave like it had went out of fashion, and he willingly put two quid in the plate, young loons in London haven’t got a clue. I swear when I saw this guy later his skin looked irritated and he was itching his face like he had fleas.

Bars like this one, if you ask me have a fu**ing nerve, they charge you a fortune to buy a drink and then they want you to pay for going for a pee, give me a break. Maybe if I was in the Ritz or somewhere like that, a toilet attendant doesn’t look too out of place, but in a crap bar in Hammersmith, your having a laugh.

Am I the only guy in the world that really hates the presence of toilet attendants in bars or clubs? The worst thing was that this particular toilet attendant looked like the spitting image of George Michael, HONEST! Well if your colour blind he might have!

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4 Comments

  1. While I agree this particular attendant went overboard, there is a reason for it. Yes, the young loons are to blame, indeed, but they need to keep people like you from hating the joint. I’ll give you two of the biggest reasons they’re necessary:

    1) To stop people from smoking (and I dont mean just cigarettes) and drugs

    2) Couples getting in there for a quick bang

    If you were to run a bar… how would you control stuff like these? An attendant is the easiest way out.

  2. I so know that feeling. The first time I experienced that was in Mexico and it was so intimidating and intrusive. Some fingers creeping in under the toilet door with one hand and toilet paper with the other and there I was …no money and no damn toilet paper…now being of the female gender this was not a good thing…did anyone warn me of this rip-off service before hand…of course not…so a lesson was learned well..pay first or drip dry :)

  3. Ryan you have a point, but for me the job of the toilet attendant isn’t about the points you have raised. It is about money, they are so in your face expecting cash for turning the fu**ing tap on for you and putting soap on your hands. Give me a break!

    If people want to take drugs they will find a way, whether there is an toilet attendant or not, I have seen people popping pills outside the toilet door, while an attendant was happily standing inside, unaware, trying to make some money from knock off aftershaves…I however seen the need for attendants in certain bars where they are probably a necessity.

    Dorothy, a hand appearing under the door would have scared the hell out of me, now that is creepy. I would have probably stomped on it.

  4. I have to agree. I was in a pub, yes a pub of all places this weekend and some guy charged me a pound for some paper and a spray of aftershave!! We ended up getting into a kung fu fight over it!! you can read all about it on my blog or see a video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLCN0oT-Os
    .-= Jamie´s last blog ..So what’s the deal with paying to go to the toilet!! =-.

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