warning: gross, with overshare

[zanzjan]

Everybody has a creepy bathroom, somewhere, sometime, that they've encountered. In my daily life, this'd be the women's room on the 8th floor of the building I work in. There's only one bathroom per floor, and they alternate irregularly between men's and women's. The floor my office is on has a men's room, so if I want to use one, I either have to go up one flight to 11 or down two flights to 8. Since I spend a lot of time on the 7th floor, it seems sorta natural to just stop briefly at 8 on my way up or down the stairs. However, it's a creepy bathroom. By which I mean it is both disgusting and attracts disgusting people. For example:

1) someone (or several someones) on that floor are "sprinklers"
2) once, from the stall next to me, I heard typing. I know it's called a "laptop", but...
3) someone else on that floor apparently felt the need last semester to share, once every month, their frustration with certain female biological processes by smearing evidence thereof on the walls of the handicapped stall.
4) even worse and nastier things (I know, hard to believe) which I've mostly blotted out.

Anyhow, I totally avoid that bathroom like the plague, except today when I was leaving work and in a hurry and it was far more expedient to hit the 8th floor and then catch an elevator the rest of the way down. And, since it's a photo kind of day, this is what I saw when I got there:



I didn't even go in. And I'm never ever ever ever going to that bathroom again. Ewwwwwwwwwww....

Just remember that pic next time you think we state workers have it cushy.

Comments

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

Suddenly I love my coworkers with a white-hot passion! Because, ew.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

I suspect the culprit of the nastier bit up there was a student, because it seems to have stopped with the end of last semester. However, it's also true that I have only very rarely used that bathroom since that behavior started, so it may just be that I've timed it right to miss further repetitions this semester.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

EW!!!!

I wonder if the cockroaches are related to #3?

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

Another idea: someone put the sign on the door after the janitorial staff cleaned, and they're reserving the now-clean bathroom all for themselves. A very clever ploy!

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

given the giant squished dead cockroach that's been in the stairwell on 9 for the last three weeks, I suspect not. )-:

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

This is really disgusting. Aren't you worried these people are now going to move on to a different bathroom?

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

Not until you mentioned the possibility, no. Thanks! >:-/

[mlp367.livejournal.com]

This is why, when I was an undergrad there, I made a mental map of all the bathrooms on campus and used only the ones in bizarre out-of-the-way places -- like the one in the service hallway behind the loading dock in the Campus Center, which as far as I could tell never got used by anyone else. (I think it must have been the janitor's favorite, too, since it was always super-clean.)