Hairy toilet seats
Quite often — more often than not, actually — when I use the restroom at work, I find myself rather put off by the amount of loose hair littering the top of the toilet seat. It leaves me wondering many unpleasant things about the previous person who sat there.
Here’s the thing: Hair doesn’t just fall out all day long. I don’t wake up to a hair covered pillow every morning. And even if you’re balding, the subject I’m discussing isn’t really the hair on your head, now, is it?
So for the quantity of loose (ahem) body hair I’m seeing to have been left behind from a single sitting, I have to wonder what the previous person (or people) are doing while they sit there to make their body hair fall out? Shouldn’t any loose hairs have already come off while they were presumably showering that morning?
And worse… this isn’t a train station, it’s a professional office. Do you have to leave that mess there? Couldn’t you, uh, clean up after yourself before you leave the stall?
March 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I would say it’s a man thing because they can be pretty disgusting (not you honey, well only when you leave your whiskers in the sink), but you wouldn’t believe how filthy women’s bathrooms can get as well. I mean, the first thing I taught my children was how to squat when using a public restroom, but if you’re in a private office why shouldn’t you be able to sit on the toilet seat? And being women, it would be expected that they not only wouldn’t make the mess in the first place, but if they did…clean up after themselves, right? Wrong. You know how I say you can take the person out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the person? Maybe I should change it to say you can dress them up but pretty but the nastiness will still come out.
Anyway, my two (or five) cents worth. ;-)