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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.