Thursday, June 10, 2010

Bathroom Etiquette

So, I open the door to the women's room at work yesterday, and there is a lady sitting on the pot in the middle stall....with the door to her stall open. After I got a quick peripheral view of WAY too much of her, she closed her door and made a comment about how claustrophobic it was. Um...okay. At least the doors on the stalls at work open out, which is more than I can say for many other bathrooms. Ladies - you know what I am talking about.

You go to the bathroom (the stalls in the women's room at the Dublin church building are a great example of this), and the door opens in, and swings within an inch of the toilet seat. This forces you to either straddle the seat or press yourself as close as you can to the stall partition just to get the door closed. And of course, the geniuses who designed the stall put the toilet paper dispenser on the same side of the partition as the opening to the door, so you are there with your leg practically in the toilet, your butt crushed by the toilet paper dispenser, and your hip being smashed by the door as you try to close it.

It's no wonder women go to the bathroom in packs - we need sympathy for our bathroom acrobatics.

4 comments:

  1. Hey there's a stall like that here at work in the men's bathroom. I feel your pain.

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  2. Just wait until you are 9 months pregnant and then trying to get into one of those teeny stalls with the doors that open in! The ones in our building down here are even smaller than the ones in the Dublin building! I haven't been able to get in them since I was about 5 months pregnant, they are so small! Three hours (and change) later when we finally get home, I have to do the potty dance all the way from the car to the door.... I'm not sure which is worse - a grown woman doing the potty dance in a skirt or having to attempt to get into one of those stalls with 7 months worth of belly!

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  3. exactly why I use the handicapped stalls! -MOM

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