Lots of griping ahead.........
Gripe #1: I pee alot. I have Interstitial Cystitis which means the wall of my bladder is constantly inflamed and often bleeding. Urine irritates it so even just a small amount of urine hurts. By alot, I mean I have to go every hour or 2 on good days and every 20-30 minutes on the bad ones even though I don't drink much at all.
Gripe #2: The bathroom nearest my office sucks. (I consider myself a bathroom connoisseur as I spend a good part of my day in them.) It is old with brown and peach tiles. There are 3 stalls, 2 sinks, and a shelf which often harbors a coffee cup or bowl that someone forgot after rinsing it out. The toilet seat is loose in stall #1, there is a glitch with the flusher in stall #2, and stall #3 is where people like to hang out and read.
Gripe #3: Yes, in our workplace people like to read in the bathroom. There is a bookshelf with magazines and old paperback romance novels in the entry. Do what you want in the privacy of your own home, but the thought of touching some reading material that someone else read while taking a dump just freaks me out. Yes, I am beyond gripe with this one, but it is just gross. And the materials are often left on the floor in the stalls. Double gross.
Gripe #4: Cell phones in public. Yes, I have one, but it mostly sits at the bottom of my purse and comes out when I need to make a long distance phone call or to use as an alarm on my nightstand. I do like the convenience, but hate getting stuck in line somewhere next to the moron who thinks all strangers in earshot care to hear some of the most intimate details of her life.
Gripe #5: Fertile myrtles, baby announcements, and birth control. I cannot relate to any of this and hearing about it gets under my skin.
So where am I going with all of this? The queen motherlode of all my gripes happened on Thursday. My IC is flaring a bit right now and I have been peeing alot (#1). On one of my many visits to my disgusting work bathroom (#2), there was a woman in stall #3 who I could hear flipping through a magazine (#3) and talking on her cell phone (#4). Who in the Hell talks on their phone while taking a dump at work?!? To top it all off, she asked her "friend" on the phone what they named her, how much she weighed, and if she got her tubes tied this time around so this won't happen again (#5).
I may have flushed three times. I'm blaming the Lupron.
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9 comments:
Oh, I agree - eeeewwwwww!
Eww, eww, eww.
Eww.
I often see people walking along the street with a cell phone stuck to their heads. And of course they have to yell because the person they're talking to can't hear them over the city traffic. Doesn't matter what time it is, there is always some idiot who couldn't wait to have a conversation until s/he got to an appropriate place. Who the hell could they be talking to at 6:00 in the morning and why in the world can't it wait? Idiots. All of them.
Couldnt agree more about gripe #4--and umm, #3 is just strange--I mean I can understand at home, but work?! Sorry you had to go through all your gripes in one instance!
oh wow! what a nasty visit to the toilet!! you poor thing.
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Am I the only one who is completely disgusted by reading material kept in a public bathroom? Think of the sheer amount of FECAL MATTER floating around on those books and magazines.
If a new plague happens, I'm blaming it on your work bathroom.
Yuck! Very strange people in this world! Hope your day got better! NCLM
Yuck. Just Yuck. Sorry you had to put up with that. NCLM
I TOTALLY CONCUR!
I am a bathroom connoisseur as well! It has to be clean and smell nice otherwise I won't go in!
But i have my own reading pleasure in my own bathroom...romance porn and my tabloid magazines...:)
Thanks for stopping by and all the kind words, they always make me feel better :-) Yikes, it sounds like you encountered all the pet peeves all in one "sitting." You are so right about having random people's reading material that they touched while in the bathroom, that is kind of gross! We have a unisex bathroom near the front OR desk at work and a lot of the guys leave the seat up and don't spray the air freshner after they do #2. Those are some of my bathroom pet peeves. Gross, but then again they're guys - what can I really expect? Hope you're feeling better soon :-)
You are hilarious! I love coming over here.
Here is my bathroom work pet peeve. We have these eco friendly toilets* that don't flush very well and lets just say that there are plenty of leftovers for the rest of us. Personally, "I like a fresh bowl" as the freaky guy from Allie McBeal mentioned.
*Whats the point of eco friendly if you have to flush the damn thing ten times just to get your paper seatcover to go down.
I love the visual of the woman taking a dump, leafing through the public reading material, talking on her cell phone, and talking about a baby all in one, at her place of employment nonetheless!!! I had to read this to the hubby. We both had a good laugh.
I think we should be friends in real life.
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