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Leading edge German toilet payment system
Just returned from Munich to Vienna to Munich over New Year with
toilet payment phenomenon information. Stopped on the autobahn near German/ Austrian border for lunch. Wife needed to use toilet and was surprised to encounter subway type turnstile requiring deposit of .5 Euro to enter toilet area. Area was equipped with a single turnstile requiring exact change but would accept multipile combination of coins to use toilet. Clever way to thwart toilet thieves not depositing money in toilet dish. Big disadvantage though for tour bus tourists. Noticed huge mob scene at turnstile while bus tourists fumbled for exact change to get into toilet area. Only one turnstile but multiple toilets. Not very good crowd control. Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. She was also surprised that toilets had automatic cleaning rotators with electric eye or timing device. She couldn't determine which but it operated while she was sitting. She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area |
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Leading edge German toilet payment system
On 8 Jan 2004 06:05:19 -0800, PJ O'Donovan wrote:
Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. You'd just get the jam outside the cubicle doors then in stead of at the turnstile, wouldn't you? -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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On 8 Jan 2004 06:05:19 -0800, PJ O'Donovan wrote:
She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area which were free? -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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Leading edge German toilet payment system
wow, really essential cultural information there..lol
"PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message om... Just returned from Munich to Vienna to Munich over New Year with toilet payment phenomenon information. Stopped on the autobahn near German/ Austrian border for lunch. Wife needed to use toilet and was surprised to encounter subway type turnstile requiring deposit of .5 Euro to enter toilet area. Area was equipped with a single turnstile requiring exact change but would accept multipile combination of coins to use toilet. Clever way to thwart toilet thieves not depositing money in toilet dish. Big disadvantage though for tour bus tourists. Noticed huge mob scene at turnstile while bus tourists fumbled for exact change to get into toilet area. Only one turnstile but multiple toilets. Not very good crowd control. Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. She was also surprised that toilets had automatic cleaning rotators with electric eye or timing device. She couldn't determine which but it operated while she was sitting. She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area |
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Leading edge German toilet payment system
Better this than running into a big African woman at a McDonalds in
Heidelburg, who's not satisfied with .5 in the dish and not doing her job of cleaning the stalls "PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message om... Just returned from Munich to Vienna to Munich over New Year with toilet payment phenomenon information. Stopped on the autobahn near German/ Austrian border for lunch. Wife needed to use toilet and was surprised to encounter subway type turnstile requiring deposit of .5 Euro to enter toilet area. Area was equipped with a single turnstile requiring exact change but would accept multipile combination of coins to use toilet. Clever way to thwart toilet thieves not depositing money in toilet dish. Big disadvantage though for tour bus tourists. Noticed huge mob scene at turnstile while bus tourists fumbled for exact change to get into toilet area. Only one turnstile but multiple toilets. Not very good crowd control. Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. She was also surprised that toilets had automatic cleaning rotators with electric eye or timing device. She couldn't determine which but it operated while she was sitting. She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area |
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Leading edge German toilet payment system
PJ O'Donovan schrieb: Just returned from Munich to Vienna to Munich over New Year with toilet payment phenomenon information. Stopped on the autobahn near German/ Austrian border for lunch. Wife needed to use toilet and was surprised to encounter subway type turnstile requiring deposit of .5 Euro to enter toilet area. Deposit? You mean you got your money returned? I'm aware of at least one service area down in Bavaria where they have a vending machine for tickets to enter the toilets. The ticket is also a voucher that you can use in the snackbar. Good if you know that in advance, not so good otherwise. T. Area was equipped with a single turnstile requiring exact change but would accept multipile combination of coins to use toilet. Clever way to thwart toilet thieves not depositing money in toilet dish. Big disadvantage though for tour bus tourists. Noticed huge mob scene at turnstile while bus tourists fumbled for exact change to get into toilet area. Only one turnstile but multiple toilets. Not very good crowd control. Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. She was also surprised that toilets had automatic cleaning rotators with electric eye or timing device. She couldn't determine which but it operated while she was sitting. She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area |
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yea those kraut toilet women are really scary.
"euro mmii" wrote in message ... Better this than running into a big African woman at a McDonalds in Heidelburg, who's not satisfied with .5 in the dish and not doing her job of cleaning the stalls "PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message om... Just returned from Munich to Vienna to Munich over New Year with toilet payment phenomenon information. Stopped on the autobahn near German/ Austrian border for lunch. Wife needed to use toilet and was surprised to encounter subway type turnstile requiring deposit of .5 Euro to enter toilet area. Area was equipped with a single turnstile requiring exact change but would accept multipile combination of coins to use toilet. Clever way to thwart toilet thieves not depositing money in toilet dish. Big disadvantage though for tour bus tourists. Noticed huge mob scene at turnstile while bus tourists fumbled for exact change to get into toilet area. Only one turnstile but multiple toilets. Not very good crowd control. Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. She was also surprised that toilets had automatic cleaning rotators with electric eye or timing device. She couldn't determine which but it operated while she was sitting. She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area |
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Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote in message ws.com...
On 8 Jan 2004 06:05:19 -0800, PJ O'Donovan wrote: Equalizing toilet/ turnstile ratio would improve traffic flow to toilets there. You'd just get the jam outside the cubicle doors then in stead of at the turnstile, wouldn't you? There was only one turnstile with people going through very slowly due to the time to come up with exact change combined with time for the machine to swallow the coins and then spit out a ticket. The ticket appeared to be useless other than to establish that one had paid as opposed to jumping over the turnstile, if asked. My wife still has her ticket as a souvenir. It has a bar code, amount of Euros, date and time down to the second printed on it. Once past the turnstile people fanned out quickly to multiple cubicles for the particular period I was outside waiting for my wife. It might have been slower at the turnstiles because the particular tour bus consisted of elderly ladies not moving too fast and some appeared confused. I live in South Georgia. I would bet on my life there is no such contraption for toilets in all of Georgia, other than Atlanta. They do some weird things up there in Atlanta but I would be surprised if even Atlanta has such a contraption where one has to pay to pee. |
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Leading edge German toilet payment system
PJ O'Donovan wrote: Just returned from Munich to Vienna to Munich over New Year with toilet payment phenomenon information. rest of idiocy snipped Does anyone else here begin to get the impression this guy is obsessed with his digestive by-products? this is his third thread of this sort! |
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Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote in message ws.com...
On 8 Jan 2004 06:05:19 -0800, PJ O'Donovan wrote: She didn't complain since it was better than the public toilet she encountered last spring in San Girmignano that did not have seats in toilet area which were free? Yep. Free to pee there. |
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