Why don't the women's restrooms at the Special Events Arena at the University of Hawaii have paper toilet-seat protectors in each stall? They are about the only public restrooms I can think of that don't provide that sanitary necessity! Isn't there a law or something that says they must be provided? If not, there should be! Law doesn’t specify
restroom ‘necessities’The answer to your first question is that nobody ever indicated it was a problem.
"Usually, if someone says anything, we will look into it. But if we don't hear anything, then we think it's running well," said Manager Rich Sheriff of the sports arena.
"I don't think it's a bad idea," he added, but said they'd have to look at costs, feasibility, etc.
In answer to your second question, there is no law specifying that restrooms be equipped with soap, paper towels, seat protectors, etc., said Brian Choy, sanitation chief for the state Department of Health. The only thing addressed is the plumbing fixture, he said.
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Is there any law that says a business has to post its prices? I regularly go to a delicatessen in Kalihi and there is nowhere that tells you how much each item is. When you ask the clerk, they say they don't know - only the person at the cash register knows. It would seem to be just good business sense to have some kind of posting just to save time or prevent misunderstandings, but there is no law that requires that, said Jo Ann Uchida, executive director of the state Office of Consumer Protection.
However, if people are being charged different prices for the same item, then "that's a different matter," she said.
To three women at Ala Moana Center on Sept. 20, who helped comfort us in the aftermath of a most frightening experience. My 21/2-year-old niece got lost outside Gymboree and my mom and I had been frantically searching for five minutes when they approached, carrying her. Mahalo also to the lovely woman who helped my mother look for Jennifer in the Disney Store. You don't know how much you helped to calm and ease her fears. -- Bette J. Au Mahalo
To the orange-haired driver of FBS --. In the Mapunapuna Ben Franklin parking lot on Oct. 4, a young woman waited for and parked in a space near the store. When she emerged, you screamed a range of obscenities, shouting "Can't you see I wanted that space?" and repeatedly threatened to physically harm her. You were parked in a stall five spaces away and there was no way anyone could tell you wanted that space. You continued your threats in the store, hunting down the woman in the aisle and prolonging your senseless abuse. How ironic you have an anti-domestic violence bumper sticker on your car. Auwe
To the Honolulu Police Department for starting to cite people who park on Merchant Street downtown. That three-lane street is effectively only one lane since people continually park on both the mauka and makai sides for long periods, frustrating ingress and egress downtown. But HPD's ticketing is starting to have an effect. Mahalo
To Videoland for salvaging a videotape that I thought I was going to have to replace. -- Jim Mahalo
