Saturday, May 24, 2008

Pet Peeves (cont'd)















1. Department Store Washrooms

These are spooky places to go into and you never know what to expect. Some of them are so clean it is almost like walking into an operating room. There are gadgets and mirrors; even specialty hand dryers that use lasers to quickly dry your hands. The lab, I mean washroom, smells like a funeral parlor, so you aren't aware of what had previously happened in the room itself. The stalls are dark and it makes it hard to see where the toilet seat is.

This is where the worst "accidents" are found. It's where in a last minute search to find a washroom for their child a mother makes a mad dash into the haunted washroom. It has been here as long as the department store that you're great grandmother used to shop in but always exceeded the current washroom trend. The child is already crying from fright and peeing on their underwear and then dripping onto the toilet to finish as they also do a couple ploppers out of sheer terror.

When you enter the damage has already been done and the guilty party is gone so you have to now choose before peeing on yourself as well whether you want the un-flushed remainders or whether you want to try the other two stalls. The first one has the "accident" the second one you notice is filled with toilet paper and pee un-flushed and the third is the handicapped stall. If you go for the second stall you must flush to test whether or not everything will go down the drain. You may have a flood on your hands in which case you go for the handicapped stall. When you enter the last stall you find it spacious and delightful but no toilet paper. So you grab paper from stall two and pee at stall three. You laser your hands dry and leave feeling disoriented. Did you glimpse 'redrum' on the mirror?

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