With a lack of publicly available bathrooms in Seattle, many City employees, delivery drivers, and service workers use Volunteer Park restrooms. Unfortunately, sometimes Volunteer Park completely closes all bathrooms and doesn’t provide any other restroom service to replace it. This can be hard on many workers who use the park as a rest stop. 

Are we supposed to pee in bottles because the City can’t keep restrooms open for the public?

If the bathrooms are closed for extended periods, then Volunteer Park should consider putting out porta-potties for Seattle’s service workers who keep the city running.

Sincerely, 

A Seattle Worker Who Just Needs to Pee!

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9 replies on “Urine Trouble”

  1. Odd that you make it sound like those are the only bathrooms in the entire city. Can’t you just do what everyone else does and use the bathroom at a starbucks, target, grocery store, bar, restaurant, etc? Also if you are a delivery person there are bathrooms you can use at many of the buildings you deliver to.

  2. So thats where all the bottles of suspect liquid that appear on my lawn are coming from. It turns out it’s our beloved city employees and delivery persons. Color me stupid I suspected it was general ne’er do wells.

  3. As a beloved City Employee, Janell8me Dear, I can assure you that no one in my department would leave a bottle of urine on anyone’s lawn. For one thing, most of the bigger trucks have their own little bathroom, and when you drive any city vehicle, everyone’s eyes are on you.

  4. Mrs. Vel-DuRay, thank for your assurance, I’ll go back to suspecting the ne’er do wells. Maybe IA needs to contact the labor department if their department doesn’t offer them restrooms if indeed they are a city employee.

    Pettiness .5 (due to lack of standing) irrelevance 10.9, overall score 4.25

  5. @1 Yep. Problem solved in the same way we everyday folks handle it. Boring ass anonymous. It’d be more interesting if bottles were appearing all over the city.

  6. When I first started with the city, I had a city assigned car, and was expected to be in the field most of the day. My district was Ballard, so I often ate lunch at Golden Gardens. There would always be cranky old white men who would ask why I was sitting there ON THEIR DIME! I’d explain to them that I have a 30-minute lunch break, and then some of them would stand there and time me.

    One time I stopped at the Goodwill in Ballard to use the restroom and an old fart started harranging me about shopping during work hours. I went into full Grandpa Simpson mode and did long and tortuous explanation of how the Goodwill always had a clean bathroom, much cleaner than the one at the Safeway on Roosevelt, but that’s mostly because teenagers tend to staff stores, and you know how teenagers can be. We used to have keys to the substations, but of course 9-11 changed all that…..

    and that’s about the time he walked away in disgust. 🙂

  8. @1: I suppose it’s the suspicion that most Seattle businesses have developed of non customers just walking in to use the facilities. “Shooting up heroin, are we?”

    When I worked out in the field, it was a rural area. And all I needed to do to be welcome was to slap the magnetic company sign on the side of my vehicle. A different culture altogether.

  9. urinals

    in autos?

    Brilliant. all’s

    you Need’s a funnel

    a hole in the floor & a hose

    and maybe a

    bucket for those

    Diarrhea days or when

    you’re Expecting a consti-

    pational Breakthrough of Renown.

    but

    do NOT

    forget the TP!

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