During the National Day, a friend who took her children to Shanghai told me an embarrassing thing: a 6-year-old child suddenly had to pee while playing in Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street. So his friend was anxious to find the toilet sign on the side of the road. Perhaps because he was unfamiliar, he couldn't find it, so he hurried into a nearby hotel and asked the hotel waiter if he could go to the toilet. The waiter told him that there is no one here, but there is one upstairs in the shopping mall next door. In desperation, I had to drag my children to the shopping mall next door. The child couldn't hold it any longer, so he hid in the corner of the mall to solve it.

I also saw a lot of news and posts about the difficulty of going out to the toilet on holidays. According to peninsula metropolis daily, during the National Day, there were long queues in front of public toilets in many tourist attractions and shopping malls in Qingdao. According to the reporter's "calculation", it takes a person at least 10 minutes from queuing to going to the toilet.

Going to the bathroom is not news. As early as a few years ago, many places began to solve this problem. For example, as early as 2002, Shanghai stipulated that public toilets should be set up and opened in large shopping malls, restaurants, financial trading places, theaters, entertainment venues and other places where people gather and distribute. In 2007, Shanghai decided to build another 800 public toilets in the city, focusing on solving some problems such as outdated public facilities and unreasonable layout, simultaneously promoting the comprehensive transformation of dry (simple) toilets in the suburbs, and further improving the service supply capacity of public toilets.

However, the actual "effect" shows that it is still "inconvenient" for citizens to go to hotels, restaurants and entertainment places facing the street, and they are often given a cold reception and supercilious look. I have experienced many times as a friend myself. Public toilets can be seen when they are not needed, and it is troublesome to find them when they are needed, and the signs are not clear. Sometimes on the roadside, you have to cross several intersections to find a public toilet. A student once told me that he used to take a taxi in the street to find a toilet.

Going to the toilet is not only related to people's livelihood, but also related to the civilization of the whole society. Why are people on the roadside taking advantage of people's inattention? Even if passers-by pass by, there are male compatriots facing the wall to solve the problem? On the one hand, we can't find the toilet, on the other hand, we can't find the toilet in the past, and in the long run we have developed bad habits. If it is convenient to go to the toilet, I believe such bad habits will decrease day by day.

Similar to the problem of going to the toilet, there is also a trash can. I once walked a mile on the streets of a city with a bag of garbage. I didn't see the trash can, and finally I saw the garbage all over the wall, so I had to throw the garbage bag there. Strictly speaking, this is also littering, but everyone regards this place as a garbage dump.

Add hundreds of public toilets, make the logo of toilets clearer, open toilets to the public as much as possible in public service places with toilets, and add some trash cans on the streets ... This does not require much capital investment, but it may play a great role in the construction of basic civilization, far exceeding civilized propaganda and preaching. Just like my friend's children, from the age of 6, they had the personal experience of being forced to urinate anywhere in the corner of the mall. This kind of "education" may affect his life.