In the Men's Room on my floor, there are two stalls. The doors each have locks that have a slot on the outside, and could be theoretically manipulated with a screwdriver or some such object. Is it wrong that I have seriously considered locking the stall I'm not using before doing my business?
Look, it's not like I want to prevent other people from moving their bowels. But, honestly, there are other bathrooms in the building, and somebody else sitting about 16 inches from me grunting kinda puts me out of my comfort zone. This is especially true when god damned undergrads are in the building. Like the guy today who got into the stall, farting loudly while singing along to his ipod. That really chaps my hide, so to speak.
I know I'm not alone in this. A colleague of mine once told me he was going to a farther bathroom because he "could not shit with company." I really wish that when someone came in and saw that one stall was occupied, that he would have the courtesy to go elsewhere. But since that won't happen (fuck, undergrads don't even flush the damn toilets) ... would it be so bad to lock the other door?
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Jessica
6/25/2007 at 1:15 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You know, I do wish I could do this in my bathroom, but the doors don't have the slots, and that would mean locking three additional stalls, which in the absence of other feet than mine would appear awfully suspicious. Plus I have some of the biggest, most recognizable feet in the building, so everyone would know who did it. Damn short Asian woman programmers.