Mobium

My thoughts at the end of a Friday at the end of a long week are minimal. Okay, so the decent, publishable ones are minimal. The garbage, you can’t say that to anyone out loud, probably shouldn’t be thinking that at work and really shouldn’t be publishing on your work blog, thosekindofthoughts are rampant, but you don’t want to read those.

Or maybe you do, but I’ll pass.

So, here’s what I will give to you on this Friday:

Why is it that bathroom space planners for office buildings don’t understand the concept of every-other-stall-usability?

When entering the ladies’ bathroom on my office floor (in an environment that hosts three female-dominant agencies), I always, always without fail see if someone is using a stall, and go two stalls over for my business. Not into the stall immediately next to the other person. They were there first, so I like to be polite and give them room. I try to leave a stall between us.

Girls most often aren’t like our male counterparts (and I’ve witnessed this first hand, I assure you) where we take reading material in and settle in for awhile. We get in, do our thing, and get out.

But still. I like a little room to breathe. Literally.

So, why is it that our bathroom, and many others I’ve seen in office buildings, retail stores, restaurants, bars, etc., don’t understand the every-other-stall-usability concept? Why is our bathroom only sporting FOUR STALLS? That way, it is really hard if there are more than two people in there to respect the every-other-stall rules. It makes it impossible.

There’s my gripe. And request. Let’s only build public bathroom stalls with ODD numbers of stalls from here on out. Not so hard, I don’t think?

And, ladies, let’s conform to the rules. Don’t park it right by your neighbor. Otherwise she’ll blame you for the offensiveness she leaves behind.

Trust me. It is brutal in there.