<p>This might sound very stupid but the thing I'm scared of the most about going to college is using public bathrooms and showers, I'm just so used to having my own room with a separate, CLEAN bathroom that nobody except ME uses! How do I overcome this fear??</p>
<p>find a public bathroom that has shower stalls and shower in there a couple of times. the only way to conquer your fear is by actually facing it and doing it. the more you do it, the less it's going to scare you, and the more comfortable you'll get.</p>
<p>the hall bathrooms are probably cleaner than private bathrooms.</p>
<p>If you have a bathroom on the hall I'm sure they have people who come in and clean them.</p>
<p>Wear flip flops in the shower. If the showers are in a big room on the hall, they most likely have people come in a clean it. otherwise they would get way too gross way too quickly. If the showers are shared in a suite (like you and 3 other girls or something) just make sure you clean once a week or something. Believe it or not, your bathroom at home is probably pretty dirty too, it just doesn't matter as much since it's YOUR dirt.</p>
<p>I don't like dirty bathrooms... my dorm hall bathroom isn't like dirty compared to like a true public bathroom(gas station, bar, etc) but it's not as clean as I'd like. I supply the bathroom with nice smelling air scents and I bring can of Lysol and disinfectant wipes with me to wipe/spray the toilet seat, door handles, and faucet. Yeah, I know, crazy... but bathrooms are kind of gross.</p>
<p>Mark your territory and no one will dare enter.</p>
<p>Make the freshman clean them and have almost weekly inspections of the heads, other cleaning stations and their rooms. As well as yours. While standing at the position of attention for a freaking hour...</p>
<p>Oh wait, never mind
you go to a civilian college</p>
<p>a general tip is to go and take your $hits in bathrooms of academic buildings like the bio/science department building where the labs and stuff are. these bathrooms usually get less traffic and are cleaner. its also good to try learnign to go out in the open then you can avoid stepping into public bathrooms entirely.</p>
<p>hahahah poster above has it right, many a drunken saturday night ends in public urination, mostly on some awkward form of private property....like the football field or into a golf cart.
of course that's a pleasure for us males.</p>
<p>we had a guy in my fraternity like you. His parents lived in town and most of the time he would go home to shower and poo...at first we thought it weird, then we just started calling "$hitbreak" like the guy in American Pie.</p>
<p>people are right though, the hall bathrooms get cleaned daily.</p>
<p>Wow I am grossed out right now!
Also, my friend, who is already in college, told me that people do naughty things in the bathroom stalls. Like eww, what kind of filthy, dirty, disgusting wh0r3$ would think of doing THAT in THERE? And she goes to a reputable college too!</p>
<p>^ Hmm...I know that the police will be called if a male is seen in our bathroom (I am on a girls floor and we have a community bathroom). And, if what you're talking about is a community bathroom, I don't think people would want to do naughty things in there..(a bit embarassing when people are constantly entering and leaving the bathroom). And it's not just "wh03$" who do that in <em>there</em>, they're girls who have no respect for themselves and have no shame whatsoever. </p>
<p>Thank goodness I haven't walked in on that on my floor.</p>
<p>"Mark your territory and no one will dare enter."</p>
<p>LOL. Brilliantly Stated.</p>
<p>go to NYU and get your own private bathroom...</p>
<p>I never went to the bathroom once in high school, I just can't do it.</p>
<p>I hate public bathrooms. I HATE them.</p>
<p>When I normally have to use one, I kick the door open to get in there, I take a ****, I dispense some paper towel and use it to turn on the water faucet, I wash my hands, turn the faucet off with a towel, and then I open the door with a towel as protection.</p>
<p>And the sad thing is that I know tons of other people do it too, because there is always a large pile of towels in the corner after people have been opening the door using "hand condoms". LOL</p>
<p>^ have you considered antibacterial hand gel? </p>
<p>I hate public bathrooms (I avoid them in the lecture halls like the plague), but I don't have a problem with my community bathroom since it's cleaned daily.</p>
<p>"I kick the door open to get in there, I take a ****"</p>
<p>hahahahaha...reminds me of dane cook's public bathroom story....if you've heard it you know what i mean.</p>
<p>Geez, there are worse things in life than worrying about public toilets, believe me. And besides just think of yourself as lucky because I only had my own private bathroom for 6monthes of my life after my bro went to college. And after that, i had to share it with 3 girls and one usually took 2 hrs putting on make up and all that jazz in the morning.</p>
<p>Just wear your flip flops in the shower and try not touching anything in there. Its not that bad. And use the paper toilet seat covers or something.</p>
<p>The worst bathroom i think i went into was some gas station restroom... it was full of crickets. like 1000s of them.. It was pure **** but I was in the 4th grade and I had to go really bad. Can't get worse than that.</p>
<p>"...it was full of crickets."</p>
<p>I believe those would be roaches.</p>