After my last post, Angela commented on how nasty public restrooms are. I have to agree. I am a freak about restrooms. I will get a paper towel, turn on the water, wash my hands (with soap of course - sometimes twice), turn off the water with the paper towel, get a new paper towel to dry my hands off with and use that paper towel to open the door. I seriously freak out about it. I have to think about other things if they only have those air dry things. Anyway...

I've been thinking about posting this for a while, but I don't talk about work here. Somehow, I have decided this isn't about work. Its about a bathroom I have to use on a daily basis (exclusing holidays and weekends).

We only have a handful of employees that work out of our office. Up until about a month ago, it was 3 guys and 3 girls. We have one bathroom. The guys always put the seat down when they were done and there was never any drips or misses. No worries, right?

Now, things have changed. People have transferred here and there. The ratio of boys to girls has remained - except for the occasional extra boy which is very rare. Only now, almost every day, when I go into the restroom, the lid is up and there is PISS all over the freakin rim!! Yesterday, it was on the freakin floor!! I got "pissed" off! This person is an adult. He is the oldest one in the office. Why can't he hit the bowl? If he can't hit the bowl, why can't he wipe up his miss? I don't have to wipe up that shit, err...piss, at home, and I'm NOT gonna do it there for some guy I barely even know. Its absolutely ridiculous!! He's new, so I will give him a chance. Maybe he doesn't realize that the cleaning crew only deep cleans the office once a week. Maybe he thinks it is the Administrative Assistant's job to clean the bathroom. I don't know. But if he thinks for one second that it will be the females responsibility to clean up after him, he has another thing coming.

I'm thinking of hanging a nice little sign on the wall to help him get the picture. If that doesn't work, I imagine that one day I'll be in a bad mood and I will walk to his office and, after making sure he was the last one in there, ask him to wipe the pee off the rim and the floor so that I may use a clean restroom too. I would hate to embarrass him that way, but damn! if he didn't make a mess, I wouldn't have to bitch, or be a bitch.

So, any ideas on the sign? Remember that it has to be tactful. We do have guests occasionally and we don't want to offend anyone.