That a customer in a bucket squashed in his garden center in Roosendaal was remarkably enough for owner Hendrik-Jan Verheijen. But he had not expected that the images he shared online would provide so much attention and reactions. “It’s a bit bizarre.”
A woman peeed Tuesday afternoon at the cash registers in garden center De Landerije Garden and Dier in a bucket and then emptied the contents under the cash register tire. She did this after she was told that the toilets in the garden center were temporarily out of use.
Owner Hendrik-Jan Verheijen placed the camera images of the promotion on Facebook, after which the incident was picked up en masse by the media. “Everyone is apparently very interested in someone who is peeing,” says Verheijen. “I didn’t expect it to get so much attention, it’s a bit bizarre.”
“Not everyone apparently understands that this is simply not possible.”
In the garden center, Verheijen has not received many responses to the event in recent days, but people do not shy away from their opinion online. “Those reactions are very varied,” says Verheijen. “People find it strange that the woman did this, but there are also people who turn it around and look at us. That is not about anything. Not everyone apparently understands that this is simply not possible.”
For example, someone under the message from the garden center on Facebook responds: “No toilets available for customers? So no coffee and tea in your restaurant. In other words: close as long as the blockage is not resolved.” Another wonders: “And therefore the staff cannot go to the toilet? Is a working toilet sometimes not mandatory for a company? “
“She wanted attention and that succeeded, beyond expectations.”
Yet the indignation dominates. “Peeing in the bucket ok. But in the middle of the store and then throwing it under the cash register is really simply anti -social!”, Someone says. Another says: “If you have to do so if necessary and the toilets are broken, then you go outside next to your car or something? Not in the middle of a store!”
The garden center has not heard anything from the woman in question. “That is not necessary,” says Verheijen. “She wanted attention and that succeeded, beyond expectations. Now it is ready for us and let’s rest.”
