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It’s that time again: Time for another review of a bathroom. I know you people love this stuff. Look at you, you’ve got that look on your face again. Stop it. No…really… it’s kinda creeping me now.

Today we’re reviewing Buehler’s Buy-Low located at 4635 N 1st Avenue, Evansville, IN.

Odor – 3
The smell inside of the bathroom ranged from “the toilet is clogged” to something that, generally speaking, smelled like nothing. However, the place never actually smelled pleasant. Whenever they did bother to put in something that tried to kill the odor, it really just masked it–leaving the room smelling something like berries and human waste. The smell was never unbearable, I’ll give them that, but there were times, in using this, that I would have much rather just held it until I got home simply because of the smell.
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Cleanliness – 2
This bathroom was rather unbearable. While the toilet itself was clean during my last visit, it has previously been in rather disgusting situations. However, the place was just generally unclean to the power that I really was uncomfortable. The floor looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in a few days, and in a situation like a public restroom, I would expect at least once-a-day cleaning. The sink also looked dirty. Everything just looked really dirty. I can only say this so many times.

And someone hadn’t flushed the urinal.
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Appearance – 2
It was, like you might expect for a grocery store, a generally plain, and boring place. This was made worse by the giant pieces of metal that covered the doors (one led outside and the other led to a section that I assume held cleaning supplies for the bathroom). It, like several other bathrooms in grocery stores, seemed more like an afterthought than anything else.

They also fixed the broken toilet seat, which was a plus.

It was a big room, though. Which, given the arrangement, was completely meaningless as the door was the farthest thing from everything.
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Functionality – 5
Everything did, however, work. Which was surprising. I can’t fault them on that.
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Comfort of Toilet Paper – 3
You know how it goes.
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Number of Stalls/Urinals
One urinal, one actual toilet.
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I wasn’t originally going to do this one, because I’ve never really liked this bathroom–for obvious reasons. However, I felt I should.

One of the main things that bothers me about this place, aside from there not being a single automatic thing in the entire room, is that there are no paper towels. Instead towels they use one of those air-dryer things that don’t really do much but make a loud noise. My main objection with the absence of paper towels stems from that, with everything being so dirty, I was less-inclined to actually TOUCH things after I washed my hands, since I feel like I’d just have to wash them again.

You ever been in that kind of situation?

Turn the page…wash your hands. Turn the page…wash your hands.

A bit like that, only with less Jewish turtle and more slight bother.

Another thing that struck me as odd was that there was a urinal and a bowl. Why is this odd? Well, there was no divider between the two, and they were so close together that no one could have thought that the two were going to be used at the same time. I would, really, have done like most smaller bathrooms and done only the bowl–especially since it really looks confusing and like a waste of a urinal. Either that or they could have separated the bowl with something. There was more than enough room for there to be two people.

Not like Pie Pan, which tried what I’m suggesting, but was actually entirely too small for that.

Also, for a rather long time, the seat on the toilet was broken towards the front. It wasn’t a clean break, either, so the broken area held a dull edge that made sitting there rather nerve-wracking. It’s a dirty place, and the possibility of getting a cut in a dirty bathroom is one of the most frightening things out there.

There was also one sink, that featured a separate hot and cold section, instead of it being all on one and you just turn it from one side to the other.

Did I mention there’s no paper towels? And the door was one that you had to pull to open, which made it much more uncomfortable.

There are better bathrooms in other grocery stores. I’ll get to those at a different time.