I was at McD's with my dad, and I had to use the washroom.
It didn't feel right going to the womens, it makes me feel like a creeper, like I don't belong there.
So I went into the mens.

MY FIRST TIME EVER.
USING THE MENS POTTY.

Its so messy in there, holy ->-bleeped-<-.
Its like, all the cleanliness effort goes into the womens bathroom so the mens is kind of yuck.
And I was nervous, VERY nervous, but I'm good at faking confidence.
And seriously only ONE stall? Whaaat.

But anyways, in I went (though it felt silly, cause I had to change a tampon) and when I left, I accidentally make eye contact with an employee. But it was brief and he didnt look at me funny and I went back to my seat, feeling a bit like a female rebel who don't know no gender bounds, instead of being a guy.

But I'd call it a success!
I need to get used to going into the guy washrooms.

OH.
YEH.

At WalMart the other day, the husband was supposed to change Jellybeans diaper, and hes like I CANT DO IT cause theres no changing station in the mens bathroom. So I was forced to do it in the womens. Booo.

Since I don't use the urinal I often find it difficult as there is frequently only one stall in many men's restrooms. I would like to see multi-user unisex restrooms with an adequate number of private stalls acessible to all.

It depends on the restaurant. I don't eat at McDonald's, but wendy's has had horrible filthy bathrooms as well as bathrooms that were absolutely spotless and smelled great. My expectations are it between.

Oh and having worked retail myself I've noticed more often than not, but not always, the Women's room was worse than the men's room. When I worked at KFC it was about the same, but women would leave tampons and maxy pads laying around. On the other hand my worse experience at cleaning them was so bad I'm not mentioning the details because I don't want to gross anyone out, but it was the mens. It also took me 2 hours to get over how sick it made me.

Congratulations.

I held a number of menial jobs before transition, so I was pretty well familiar with the men's room ahead of time. But you're right, they are usually smellier. And the fewer-stalls thing can get frustrating. I employ a lot of strategy in where and when I use public restrooms, and I have no problem waiting in line for a stall, or finding another place if there isn't one. Lots of guys do that.

I don't eat fast food much. I went to taco bell a couple weeks ago though and I was a little afraid to use the bathroom because I vaguely remembered a news report about some transperson being assaulted. You have to get buzzed in by an employee though so I was comforted knowing there wouldn't be a ton of traffic.

Grats again. That is a huge milestone.

Walmart has a family bathroom with a baby changer in it...

Not all Wal-Marts have family rest rooms, Alex. The older ones, especially. As more get remodeled and turned into super centers, they're getting them, but I can think of at least two off hand that don't have family ones.
Congrats,  Rawb! It's always very exciting the first time you use the correct rest room.

Quote from: devention on June 28, 2014, 09:50:25 AM
Not all Wal-Marts have family rest rooms, Alex. The older ones, especially. As more get remodeled and turned into super centers, they're getting them, but I can think of at least two off hand that don't have family ones.
Congrats,  Rawb! It's always very exciting the first time you use the correct rest room.

The one here is considered a supercenter, because it was a tester for the supercenter model and has no family bathroom. 

Congrats

I tend to not use public restrooms unless I absolutely have to, mainly for the reason of there only ever being one stall in the mens.
One particularly awkward experience I had was at a state park restroom...3 dudes cleaning their fish in the bathroom sinks. I'm pee shy and took forever to actually go, and then couldn't even wash my hands 

I find that surprising. I've never met another guy that wants to expose his junk to other guys. Many guys (including this girl trapped in a guy's body) have a don't talk to me while I'm holding my junk policy.

I feel I live (lately, not in my past) a fairly charmed life, and most men's rooms are not any worse than women's rooms. OTOH, I would say general "repair" is worse. If a lock is broken, a door latch is broken, water on the floor, etc etc. no one ever complains and the problem stays a problem. On the plus side, there is ALWAYS soap.

--Jay

Congrats Rawb!

Quote from: aleon515 on June 28, 2014, 02:41:49 PM
I feel I live (lately, not in my past) a fairly charmed life, and most men's rooms are not any worse than women's rooms. OTOH, I would say general "repair" is worse. If a lock is broken, a door latch is broken, water on the floor, etc etc. no one ever complains and the problem stays a problem. On the plus side, there is ALWAYS soap.

--Jay

Haha yes, I do appreciate the abundance of soap in men's bathrooms.

I haven't been in many bathrooms that are real bad, but the one complaint I have is when there is a reaaaally dirty urinal cake or when someone just took a very vile poop and the smell lingers in the warm air lol.

I have only been to one men's bathrooms which was at a lecture hall/diner and it was spot clean and largely unisex toilets so YOLO. I actually didn't even reflect over it at the time. I just decided I needed to go so I went there and while inside I was like hey, wait a minute. It's the only public one I've used that was referred to as specifically male so I can't tell how unique the experience is as Sweden tends to house unisex at most places like McDs. I felt weird because I was sitting down instead of standing up even though it was just a regular bathroom with a door (not really a stall in such a sense) and no one could see me even.

At least it was nice and clean lol. I tend to avoid public restrooms in general for this reason. The hygiene just isn't the best overall.

I'm Pre-T and I've always found it strange going into the ladies room since I've dressed in guys clothes practically all my life. Ever since my mom let me pick what I wanted to wear this was my clothing choice. Minus holidays where she forced me to wear dresses (eww). But I always find it strange to go into the ladies room because I always get the eye like "What the hell are you doing in here?" Because I pass as an 19 year old boy a lot of the time. So I've never felt like I belonged in the ladies room, because I don't for many reasons but it's kinda like this is where the hell I have to go until I start transitioning.

Quote from: aleon515 on June 28, 2014, 02:41:49 PM
I feel I live (lately, not in my past) a fairly charmed life, and most men's rooms are not any worse than women's rooms. OTOH, I would say general "repair" is worse. If a lock is broken, a door latch is broken, water on the floor, etc etc. no one ever complains and the problem stays a problem. On the plus side, there is ALWAYS soap.

--Jay

This has been my overall experience.  Speaking of broken locks, the lock in the men's room at work was broken for at least 3 months before it was resolved.  I remember the lock in one of the women's having been broken pre-transition and the issue was resolved within a few days.

Quote from: awilliams1701 on June 28, 2014, 11:18:15 AM
I find that surprising. I've never met another guy that wants to expose his junk to other guys. Many guys (including this girl trapped in a guy's body) have a don't talk to me while I'm holding my junk policy.

Not sure if this was in reference to my post, since it was directly after, but I'm assuming it is cause it seems to be the only one that fits lol.
"Cleaning their fish"  wasn't an innuendo, I literally mean that they caught fish out of a lake, took them into the bathroom, and proceeded to gut/clean them in the bathroom sinks.

Oh lol. I really thought you were calling it a fish. Ive never seen anything like that in a bathroom before either. Most guys I've known try to leave ASAP even if it means not washing hand properly.

Quote from: aleon515 on June 28, 2014, 02:41:49 PM
On the plus side, there is ALWAYS soap.

This made me laugh.

I agree though that the general state of disrepair has a lot more to do with less upkeep than with men just treating facilities worse.

Nope awilliams, I wasn't calling it a fish 

Seems that places where one bathroom is disgusting or trashed, more often than not, all the other bathrooms will be as well. The same people usually clean all the bathrooms so if they don't feel
like cleaning, restocking, or maintenance, no bathroom is getting special attention.
Of course, not saying this is true of all public bathrooms everywhere all the time, just an observation I've noted from personal experience. It's always one of those "unspoken gratitude to the sh*tscrubber gods" situations when you walk into a bathroom and can feel safe not hovering 8 inches above the bowl with a flimsy paper seat cover being drowned by toilet water as it slides into the bowl.

Sorry if that went slighy off-topic.

The guys restroom has a stench that is unbearable to me now that I am transitioning to female.

I am sexually attracted to females so I like their smell much better (although it does verge on sickeningly sweet occasionally now that I am on hormones myself.) I use this to explain why the mens room smells bad to me. Even more now that my own hormone smell is not blocking some of it lol.

Big truck stops are the worst. The guys sit there and hold their body functions for up to several days and let it rot inside themselves. But on the other hand, a lot of bigger restrooms have a changing table. For travelers and all.