Bathroom Incidents
Mood:  smelly
Ok, so I thought I entered this in here before, but apparently not. Today at my new office, I was reminded about a couple of bathroom incidents that occurred at my old job.

Well, everyone knows about the office restrooms and how they can sometimes pose as their own little private hell...for example, in my current workplace we actually have keys to get into the bathroom. Apparently they had a problem with people coming in off the street to use the restrooms, so now we all have keys. The worst thing I have encountered here has been the norm...unflushed toilets...messy seats, etc...however, there was one person who was in a stall while I was in there and I could have sworn that I heard paper rustling. No, I thought, that couldn't be. Well, I was washing my hands when this person emerged from the toilets and with no amount of embarrassment or anything and proceeds to fold up said papers and tuck them under her arm. Now, let me say that I can understand the thought to take something in there, but seriously folks, that is so unnecessary. You are not at your house and if you do make the bad decision to take reading materials into the restroom, at least have the decency to hide it from everyone else.

Now, with that being said, the real restroom tragedies occurred at my old job. There I was happily headed to the bathroom early one afternoon. I walked in and opened the door to the second stall only to be greeted with what can only be described as a feces explosion. It was on the seat, it was on the back of the stall wall. It was everywhere and it was disgusting.

So, this brought up a few questions...first and foremost how in the hell does something like that happen? Secondly, if it were some sort of freak accident and it happened to any normal person, wouldn't you attempt to clean it up so as to make sure no one knew what happened, what YOU had done? How can you just leave it all there. Thirdly, how awful must that be for the folks that have to clean it up? Horrible.

Now, that was bad, but the worst part is that this happened, not once, but twice in our bathroom--in the same stall, although the second time it was just in a big pile next to the toilet. How messed up do you have to be to completely miss the toilet and if it is a medical thing, which I understand, wouldn't it be prudent to perhaps telecommute? I really don't understand what people are thinking.