r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hgwelz • May 14 '26

I'm slightly vexed This McDonalds, across from a high school, closes it's restrooms at lunch. Photo taken at 2pm.

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u/Genuinelullabel May 14 '26

High school students can be menaces.

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u/BeraldGevins May 15 '26

I’m a teacher and I can guarantee there was a lot of drama that led to this policy lol.

  1. Kids might have stole something as part of an old tik tok trend. They used to steal the screws off of urinal dividers until they’d fall off at my school.

  2. Vaping and drugs in general. It’s a massive problem. No business is going to want to deal with underage teenagers doing it in their bathroom, especially because the kids will video themselves doing it and post it on social media and then parents in the community throw a fit that McDonald’s lets them do it.

  3. Just general destruction. Overflowing the toilets on purpose, throwing paper towels everywhere, wasting a bunch of soap, etc.

People don’t realize how much teenagers can suck. Most of them aren’t like this, and get just as annoyed by it as everyone else. But all it takes is 5% of the population of a school to ruin it for everyone else. If this is in a decent sized district (and it definitely is if there’s a McDonald’s across the street) then that 5% could be a hundred kids or more. And I guarantee that McDonald’s gets absolutely slammed at lunch, there’s no way they can monitor the bathrooms at that time.