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Originally Posted by SpongeG
my friend was at an old Mcdonald's on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver waiting for his order at the counter and a vagrant came in and dropped his pants in the middle of the lobby area and took a big dump. My friend and everyone else just fled the place and he never went back.
Most McDonald's and fast food and coffee places here keep their bathrooms locked, even suburban ones so you need to get a key or buzzed in to use the facilities. Is that pretty standard across the country these days?
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Who knows. Maybe he was denied a key last time he went and this was pay back. Bathrooms are a basic human right. It's not just the homeless, but people with IBS, Crones, Colitis. On the one hand, why should a private business give public access to their facilities, but on the other hand... Cities should do a better job at providing public facilities, or maybe give tax incentives to businesses who do. A system needs to be worked out.
But yeah, in Ottawa, outside of the pandemic when washrooms were inaccessible, I'll say 50/50 balance between open to anyone and needing to ask for a key. Even in the suburbs some businesses have signs saying customers only.
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