Take your nose out of the air and please, wash your hands
April 22, 2009 5 Comments
Many would argue that the water cooler is the control tower of office gossip, but I am gonna go ahead and dispute that, today. I am normally disgusted when I have to use any public bathroom. Even though there may not be any chocolate-stained surprises on the toilet seat or golden puddles with pieces of toilet paper soaked in it on the floor, I cringe at the thought of making skin to skin contact with a toilet seat that has been inhabited by a multitude of rear ends. Despite my fears of cooties I visit the bathroom at work. And no matter what anyone tells me the women’s bathroom at work is the core of gossip and scandal. Believe it or not, many things are revealed about someone’s character by the few minutes they spend in the bathroom. No I’m not a peeping Tee at work, but I have seen the nastiest of the nasty and neatest of the neat freaks pass through the bathroom doors.
Scene One-Not too long ago when I came out of the stall to wash my hands I was followed by the silence of an “executive” who must’ve had her mouth and eyes sewn shut because she did not know how to say HI to me. I don’t pay too much attention to what others do, but I noticed that the tap did not go on once, while she quickly fixed her hair. And just like that the mute left the bathroom. DOUBLE TAKE? Yes, the mute left the bathroom without washing her hands. Keep in mind this particular “executive” never acknowledges my presence, ever. I mean that’s great and all but with the extensive zeros on her paycheck I expect a certain level of class and furthermore cleanliness.
Scene Two- Just recently one of the toilet tissue holders broke for whatever reason, rear end labor pains? A clever member of the firm decided to take it upon herself to make the feminine napkin disposal box, the replacement toilet tissue holder. Mind you there is a toilet bowl cover that could temporarily suffice as a holding spot, so whatever short bus this lady got off of, she might as well get back on it, because that shit is nasty.
Scene Three- A minor one in comparison to unwashed hands and feminine napkin disposal sabotage. Paper towels thrown on the floor and flooded sink counters bug the shit out of me! We have not one two but four disposals in the ladies bathroom, but somehow, even though conditions have considerably improved, paper towel snowballs end up on the floor. This is not the NBA, if you miss a shot there is no one on the court to pick up the ball but you!! Same goes for the flooded sink counters, it takes all but two seconds to wipe up your mess- so why is it not being done more often?
I know! How the hell did she manage to write a 500+ word blog post on the women’s bathroom? It was on my mind. But more importantly I am curious to know if the gods out there experience the same or similar issues- ok, we know y’all leave the toilet seat up, but besides that, any filthy urinal stories??!!. Gods and goddesses, any tales to add to the ladies bathroom hall of shame?
I once found a pubic hair on the toilet seat,
Tee’d Off
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this has been going on for years. I truly don’t know how or why women are like this. WTF!
I know who this is!!!
lmao I had to share LWhite..I would’ve let it go at the unwashed hands bit, but the toilet paper roll in the fem napkin disposal- ummmm noooo!!!!!
I hope we are not alone in this nightmare lol
Thank you for your comment
Hey Tee,
I have two:
1)the guys in my office are always complaining about boys parading as men who feel the need to dig for gold while taking a piss, then post their ‘treasures’ on the walls in front of the urinals for all to see. NASTY!
2) One of my first jobs was working for a movie theatre. One day a co-worker and I had to check the washrooms. While we we sweeping the floors and replacing paper towel, we saw a patron walk of out her stall with an open bag of Twizzlers candy. She tripped a bit and dropped half the bag on the bathroom floor. Without missing a beat, she picked up candy, stuffed in back in the bag and walked out of the washroom (not washing the hands of course) like nothing ever happened. We had to laugh at that one! Yuck!
O M G @ #2…that’s disgusting!!!
Even in this recession you wouldn’t catch me using the 10 sec rule on the floor of a public bathroom yuck!!
@ #1- I am less surprised by this strangely enough..but in agreement that thats NASTY!
…This topic is more important than I thought!! lol
Hahah yes it is! But I will say with #2, this was hardly a recession back then, people really could deal with re-purchasing another $4 pack of Twizzlers, c’mon!