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Open Letter for the Women's Bathroom

Today was the last straw. I can no longer sit quiet about the pigsty bathroom in my office building.

· Why is it that at any point of the day I can walk into the women’s bathroom and find a mountain of toilet paper on the floor? Are you wrestling the rolls? Are you toilet paper unraveling challenged?

· If you’re going to squat and pee and miss the mark, for the love of all that is sanitary wipe the freaking seat. No one needs to see you marking the bowl. You’re not a dog.

· Please wash your hands after using the rest room. I die a little each time I see a woman use the toilet and then fix her hair and walk out without washing.

· If you are one of the very few who will wash their hands, do you feel the need to baptize the sink? I will never understand why it always looks like my three year old had a water fight in a women’s bathroom.

· There is a garbage can in the restroom for a reason, please feel free to toss your hand drying towel in the garbage and not on the actual sink. Or are you also garbage finding challenged?

· Flush. Do you see that HUGE big silver arm on the back of the toilet? Us common folks use it to flush toilets. I do not need to know what color your urine is, I am not doing any medical testing on it to check for vitamins after you are done.

· We have all had to use the toilet for a bowel movement, this is understandable. But if you just went and see me walking into the same stall, do me a solid and let me know that my skin may start to melt at the contact of the smell. I may decide I don’t have to pee right at that time and avoid having to be scarred for the rest of the day with your shit aroma.

· Cleaning crew, this is for you: How about a deodorizer in the women’s bathroom? I hate walking into to a women’s bathroom and smelling buttussy. It makes me want to throw up and wish I had a penis so that I could pee standing in a urinal, shake and tuck away.

Thank you for your attention

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    While this Open Letter for the Women's Bathroom is gross, it's reassuring to us male types to hear that women can be equally gross sometimes....

Reader Comments (33)

That was a fascinating expose on women's bathrooms. I have never been in one and just assumed they all smelled like potpourri and had framed pictures of babies and puppies on the walls. Do they really leave pee on the seat? I can't even picture how that could be done...

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBusyDad

Gross! and yet, so freakin true.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKelly

haha...now you need to hit print and go tape it up on the door. Amen.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAshley

Woo! that gave me such a laugh, Kim! And Oh So very True!

People who don't wash their hands are gross. I feel like, even if you're a nasty person, at least if you see someone there, pretend to wash your hands or something! Eww.. I guess at least you know whose food to avoid at the company potluck.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterNissa

ewww. I need a shower after reading that!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMaria

Buttussy?

I have never been so attracted to you in my whole life.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMr Lady

I mean, do they treat their bathrooms at home the same way? If everyone had the same respect for a public bathroom that they have for their private, we'd all be a lot happier. Don'tcha think?

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSecret Agent Mama

Did you just start at my office? This could seriously have been written about my office bathroom...

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDon Mills Diva

Amen.

BTW... how far are you from NYC.. like Central Park. I will be there in 2 weeks. :)

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterOHmommy

Amen, amen! Women can be such pigs sometimes. Gad! have you never been out in public before?

I will be trying to use 'buttussy' in a sentence all day.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterTara R.

Buttussy?? Will you marry me? LMFAO!!! No joke...when I read that, I smelt the bathroom! Ewww, so glad I haven't smelt it in months! Definitely would have made me toss!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBrandy

Fabulous!! Great post!

So unfortunate that this has to be the case. When I taught school, we would bring in our own bowls of potpurri and the like to help. But, if people aren't even flushing, Good Lord, what are you to do??

You should forward that to everyone at work. Maybe some would get the hint!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKristen

And I thought the men's restroom was bad! :D Buttussy...I think I just found my new favorite word. :D

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJared

HILARIOUS, and yet really really gross!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commentermisty

I'm confused (again). For my mommy told me that girls were sugar and spice and everything nice. Are you sure that you don't work in an office full of cross-dressers?

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFishHawk

I wish I were the cleaner there! (I'm a cleaner).

I would SO deodorize. I'm tickled just naming all the things I love to use in the bathrooms at work, including Pinesol, Various bleach products, and air eliminators. I have fun. Bathrooms are a joy to clean! I would, however, be tempted to 'anonymously' post this sign on the back of every stall door in your building.

"If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie."

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSue

Really! Who treats their bathroom at home like this? Anyone? I hope not, and if you do, please don't invite me over!
Not that anyone likes public bathrooms, but I have an aversion to them. I will seriously drive home if I have to pee. And that is the only bad thing about having 4 girls! Daddy can't take them.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commenteramy

i totally remember that during corporate life. it's one of the few things i DON'T miss.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterzoeyjane

Consider yourself lucky you're a gal. Guys...um, just be lucky its in the toilet, ever. Not just number 1 either. Suck it up Kim! LOL!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJoeprah

Amen Sista!!!!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSteph

OMG! So funny... but soooooo true and gross! This should be published in newspapers across the country!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterChristina

Buttussy?

that my skin may melt upon contact with your shit aroma?

Were you in your COMPANY bathroom or the truck stop?

KEEP BELIEVING

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAngie

Buttussy. My new favorite word. Kind of a mix of old bread and rotting fish. Delish!

That was gross.

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterA Whole Lot of Nothing

Yuck! So sorry!!

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterNola

There is NOTHING...i mean NOTHING...more nasty than walking into a stall after someone shit out their bran flakes...i think i'm going to vomit now!!
xoxo

April 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commentermelissa

All I can say is EWWWW. Ew ew EW.

April 9, 2008 | Unregistered Commentercyndy

I think it's time for Depends! Then you would never have to go into the bathroom!
And I think wishing for a penis might raise a few questions on the homefront. I guess one of the benefits would be when your husband asks "How's it hanging?" you could answer him!

April 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMike Brady

Do we work in the same office? I think we might. If so, wanna have lunch together?

April 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMimzie

Yuck! I am so happy that I share my woman's bathroom with no one! This is also the reason why I keep insisting that we hire only men.

April 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAmy

Do me a solid?! Buttussy?!!! OMG, that was funny! And unfortunately so, so true.

When I take the little G into women's washrooms she's always asking questions about why this is so disgusting, what this and that is ... I think I puke in my mouth a little every time we have to use the public space. Ewwww.

April 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKaren MEG( Pomtini)

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