Bathrooms (Katie)

Who in the hell designs bathrooms because that person and I need to have a talk. You go to a hockey game, football game, basketball game and where are the lines really bad? The concessions and the women’s bathrooms. I’ve said it once and I will say it a million times: women’s bathrooms need to be AT LEAST twice as large as men’s bathrooms. I’ve lost all the guys at this point because they’ve never had to stand in a line of 50 women who all have to pee so badly we’re willing to kill for the next empty stall. There is NEVER a line for the men’s bathroom, and then you finally make your way through a line of 50 women, a toilet seat with piss on it, no toilet paper, and no paper towels to dry your hands with, you walk out of the bathroom and what is the first thing your significant other says to you? “What the hell took so long?” They will never understand. Not only that, but how about those poorly designed stalls? Those ones where you sit down to pee and then you don’t have room to get toilet paper without hitting your elbows or the ones where you sit down and realize there’s no way in hell you’re reaching the toilet paper without standing up. For the guys that I’ve lost here, think about it like an ATM: you pull up and you can’t get your money without opening your door and getting out. Now transfer that thought to the bathroom.

All those women think that since they waited their turn in line they can take an hour in the stall. WRONG. I don’t know about the rest of you but it just pisses me off when I wait, finally get to go pee and the person that was 2 people in front of me in line gets to the sink the same time as I do. Now I understand that sometimes you take longer in the bathroom than others but people should really learn to either shit or get off the pot. Literally.

Story time. My mom went into the bathroom at Wendy’s and saw the toilet against the wall, no stall around it. So she went to lock the bathroom door and when she turned around she saw a stall with another toilet in it. So she went into the stall. Now think about the abundance of ways that this could go wrong. Immediately after making her decision to go into the stall she had a horrifying thought that if someone else came in and used the toilet outside, she would be stuck in that stall until they left. How terrible would that be?

I’ll leave you with that thought. If any of you grow up to be building designers, think about all of this ok?

-Katie