Pet Peeves (cont'd)

2. Restaurant Bathrooms


Restaurant Bathrooms are another pet peeve of mine. People who work as servers in a restaurant try not to be the ones who have to clean the washrooms. If they can avoid it they will at all cost.

That is why some of the best quick graffiti can be found there. The Men's Washrooms are questionable at best and the Women's Washrooms are like walking into a 80's hair salon. Especially if the restaurant becomes a bar at night. Then you get other great things like being able to tell how many times the stalls have been re-painted by the way the scratches in the stalls peal away the years of bad colors with a set of sharpened keys. Drunk women break out the lipstick or whatever makeup they can find and write all over the walls in vengeance for someone stealing their prey that they'd been stalking all afternoon from transition from restaurant into bar.

The hooks on the back of the stalls have been broken or pried off for one reason or another. When you use the washrooms in restaurants please take caution. Check immediately for cigarette burns on the toilet seat or toilet roll dispenser. Make sure there is toilet paper in the stall and for God sake, don't linger too long inside this bathroom. If there are no hooks to hold onto your purse while you squat above the seat, just tuck it under your arm. That way if the lights go out no one will steal your purse. Make sure there are also toilet liners for the seats and if there aren't make sure you have enough toilet paper to line the seat so you don't touch it. Who knows how long it has been sitting this way for! Usually these bathrooms smell of cigarettes or stale perfume. Just don't stick around if you hear someone else come in. Quickly finish your business and exit quietly through the door you came from and no one gets hurt.