Ugh! My three-year-old needed the toilet when I collected her from nursery recently. It was smelly, there was a soiled potty on the floor and no toilet paper. I was appalled. I’ve often heard it said that you can judge a restaurant by its toilets – if the loos are clean then the more likely they are to also run a clean kitchen. Call me naïve, but I’d never thought to check out the toilet facilities in my child’s nursery.
Of course, I alerted the staff to the fact that they’d run out of loo roll – that’s something that’s easily addressed without offence. But I didn’t know how to say that I thought the toilets were generally unclean. So I was a typical Brit, squirmed but said nothing. I reassured myself by the fact that my daughter is very rarely ill so the nursery’s hygiene levels must be decent.
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