Necessary Evil.

 It’s no surprise that most people don’t like public restrooms. In fact, I absolutely loathe them. But when you’re schedule is like mine, and you’re up on campus 10 hours at a time it can be hard to avoid them.

To make it easier for myself I have canvased campus to find the “perfect” restroom. The student center has two rest rooms deemed adequate, both with their pros and cons.

You can always count on the bathroom on the first floor to have those fancy paper toilet seat covers to protect your bum from germs. The layout of the bathroom makes me think it was a hallway in a past life, if the stall doors didn’t open toward the toilet then they would slam into the sink. You have to take off your backpack and put it near the door if you want to wash your hands without someone running into you.

The other bathroom that I can tolerate at the student center is on the second floor. When you walk into the bathroom you don’t have to touch a doorknob, you walk through a curvy hallway that ‘discretely’ hides the stalls. I suppose the only complaint I have about this bathroom is that there are no paper toilet seat covers. So I have to put toilet paper around the rim instead… I’m not really a fan of having to put my hands so close to something writhing in germs.

At least as a women, I never have to worry about doing this!!

The bathrooms at the library are my favorite. NOT the first floor. The fourth floor is the best, but the third will suffice in a bind. It seems the higher up you go, the cleaner they get.

Finding a clean bathroom is the least of my bathroom fears.
 What happens when you find yourself HAVING to go poop number two?

Do you wait for people to clear out of the bathroom?

Are the sounds you are inevitably going to make be offensive to others?

What if you leave a lingering odor?

Do you pretend it was the person who used the stall before you?

Or blame it on the next stall over? 

All of these questions leave me in such a state of panic that I make myself sick from "holding it in" until I can make it to the sanctuary that is my own bathroom.