The Most Out-Of-Place Things People Found In Public Bathrooms

Eric Lund

Feb 14, 2022 12:00 PM EST

Public bathrooms are, at heart, a paradox. It's a public space designed to facilitate the most private of activities. Maybe the only more private activity than using the bathroom is painting your Warhammer mini figurines. But that privacy lasts forever.

But still, everything changes when you're in a public restroom. Every kind of human interaction takes on a new set of rules, from eye contact to unwarranted compliments. In everyday life it would be fine to ask a colleague if they needed help lifting something, but this universal gesture of goodwill is quizzically met with stony silence when uttered at a urinal.

The public bathroom is a zone of rigid expectations, which is why it's extra memorable to walk in on a whole Thanksgiving dinner in a toilet. We should clarify, a whole Thanksgiving dinner that hasn't been eaten yet.

It's moments like these that keep us up at night. When will the next toilet lobster find us? When will we come across a whole copy of The Declaration of Independence written on a stall door? The questions are too much. Here are some horrifying and cursed toilets.