The scene: A single-occupancy unisex restroom containing a toilet, a sink and a urinal. There are no partitions and the door is lockable. Sorry, no photograph, but it’s easy to conjure in your mind.
The mystery: On occasion I will enter aforementioned restroom to discover the toilet left in the seat-up position. Now, this room is cleaned early each morning and the seat will be up then, too. But then it’s obvious that it’s been cleaned; the water in the bowl is a lovely antiseptic shade of bluish-green. These other instances, the mystery occurrences, most often occur in the afternoons and the water is its typical achromatic hue.
07 Jun 2008 Sat at 9:21 am
me gusto su bi-lingual posts. you’d better call scooby doo and the gang to investigate the loo mystery…and i’m glad mystery #2 won’t have to do with the b-room.
perhaps you can investigate why people where i work set the photocopy machine to make 75 copies, front and back, stapled and sorted and then LEAVE IT THAT WAY so when i show up to make one miserable copy, i end up killing 10,000 trees before i figure out how to stop the machine. thanks.
09 Jun 2008 Mon at 12:28 pm
As far as my little brain can figure, these are the possibilities:
·someone is using it as a squat toilet, for health and/or hygiene reasons.
·someone is doing it ’cause he just doesn’t like urinals.
·gremlins!
Any other suggestions?
21 Jun 2008 Sat at 12:34 am
This post reminded me of the silliest thing I once did. We were at Borders, I had to use the bathroom REAAAAALLLLLY badly, so I quick ran in and shut the door. It seemed totally weird that the stall had no door, but I figured WHATEVER, I reaalllly had to go. So I quick do my business, wahs up and as I throw open the door to leave, two men are about to enter. they STARE at me, open-mouthed. I look back horrified, realizing I just used the men’s room by mistake. And could have had some dude walk right in on me in situ. NICE. I must have turned 3 shades of crimson. NEVER WILL FORGET THAT ONE> egads..