Thanks for all the comments. I’ll add some responses.
About the driver breaks. He would stop, but when I asked responded that we were leaving right away. (Which was the actually case in all but the first two, where people would jump off for an un-announced break.)
About paying for a toilet. Yes, I have travelled often enough to understand paying for toilet privileges. But if you were at a restaurant and had to relieve yourself, wouldn’t you be pissed (no pun) if they charged for the toilet?
The airlines have slowly conditioned us to accept paying for everything. (I’m waiting to be charged for air.)—but even they don’t charge for bathroom use...yet.
As a side note, the ability for companies to charge for each and every thing is reallya result of third degree price discrimination, the ability to extract the maximum value from each person for a product. It used to be a big deal and most modem governments thought it was a bad thing to let companies do.
As far as public restrooms, yes, people can be disgusting. I don’t think charging will help; nor do I think the company will clean the toilet any more often with a charge.
I was just taken back that Alsa was trying to charge me a €1. Next time, I will check how close other prices are. After knowing, if I still go with Alsa, and complain, then I would say I do fall into the whiner category.
