Recently while enjoying these mini-breaks, I've found it really interesting how others handle the locked door. There seems to be a variety of ways:
- The Meek: They come and ever so gently try the door knob to see if it moves. When it resists, they walk way. This is my approach.
- The Aggressor: They walk up to the door, turn the handle and before it has registered in their head that the handle isn't moving, their whole body is pushing the door. I've seen it where the door moves inward about an inch. Thankfully the lock held.
- The Passive Aggressive One: These people really confuse me but always make me chuckle. They knock as if they are expecting an answer but immediately after knocking, they attempt to push down on the handle. What is the point of knocking if you're going to immediately try the handle? Or what is the point of knocking at all? As if I will say "Just a minute" and out myself as to who is in the one seater bathroom. No way, Jose! While location-wise it is closer to some people's work area, we all know that most people come to this looking for that special level of privacy that can only be topped if a) you visit a bathroom on a totally different floor where no one knows you or b) you change your shoes before and after using the 3 seater so no one can identify the strange sounds or smells with you via your shoes.
Much like the sociological study that was the McDonald's that was built on a corner and had two drive thru entrances, this could easily also be a great thesis topic to delve into further.
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You and your bathroom buddies are lucky that I was not a supervisor there. If I knew and or discovered that people were leaving their assigned work areas to use restrooms on different floors or even buildings; I'd give them a warning slip for wasting time.
Three strikes you are out.
Geez, get written up for sexual harassment much? When 95% of the employees are female and there are only 4 toilets, sometimes one has to leave by necessity. I don't know of anyone that left the building just to use the bathroom other than that kid in the American Pie movies.
Also "assigned work areas"? There are more jobs than those found in factories, you know.
You know, I know way more about Bone's and your bathroom habits than I should!
Speaking of Bone...that poor guy. We might not see him for awhile. His team got spanked today by a team that uses the name 'Gamecocks'.
What do you do when the handicap person needs to use the crapper while you are in there doing your studies? ;)
I just realized, I read an entire "bathroom post." Awesome start to the day.
Cheers.
Ed - I've seen the only remotely handicapped person use the main one. That leaves the one seater a free for all. :-)
R. - May this awesomeness carryover for your whole week! :-)
I hate going to the bathroom at work. We have a men's and women's (though both are one-seaters so I don't really see the point). It's just right there off the secretary's office. Not even like down a little hall or off in an alcove or anything.
I try to go when she's at lunch. But a couple of times she's come in and "caught" me.
(I do love those handicapped bathrooms though. So spacious. I feel so unencumbered.)
It's been five weeks. Aren't you at least going to write a farewell to blogging post?
Geez, it has been 5 weeks. I need to get on it. But if this was a farewell, I couldn't think of a better, more Murf-like way of ending it than with a bathroom entry. Wouldn't you agree?
FYI - check your email. :-)
Tomorrow (November 19th) is World Toilet Day.
It'd be a perfect time to make your comeback.
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