ates

How do Douglas

College students

measure up in

bathroom

etiquette?

 

ave you ever sat down—on the toilet
perhaps—and thought about all the
time we humans spend in the
confines of a bathroom? Even if a
person spends only ten minutes a
day in the palace (most people make
at least four trips a day to the bathroom doing their
sacred business of number one and number two) that
is still sixty hours per year, two and a half days out of

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spent at least ninety hours a year on the royal throne.
Memories of the toilet for some people have been less
than pleasant. If Elvis Presley could erase anything he
probably wouldn't mind erasing his last moments with
the porcelain grim reaper, Others have seen the toilet

 

the year, wasted using
the toilet. In the good
old days when life
wasnt so rushed,
people must have

in dark, drunk moments of clutching the toilet seat
for dear life, staring deep into the swirling bowl and
heaving the remnants of their liquid dinner. Neverthe-
less, overall, in the privacy of your own mind, the
toilet is not the enemy. Rather, in the right setting, it
can be a tool for inspirational thoughts and an escape
for a little R&¢R. What do you think the model for
the famous statue The Thinker was sitting on when
Rodin sculpted it?

Whether your bathroom at home is your Al
Bundy classic or your decorated, flower scented haven,
it is yours to control. However, there is a darker side to
the world of bathrooms, a world where we have
almost no control over our surroundings. That darker
side is PUBLIC WASHROOMS. It is a domain
untamable by even the neatest of bathroom attend-
ants. The horror of flooded toilets and sprinkled seats
make all of us twitch just a little. But who are the
culprits who commit such uncivilized acts? Who are

 

 

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these people who have forgotten everything taught to
them in their childhood about bathroom etiquette?
Who doesn't think when using a public comode—if
only for the briefest moment—f you sprinkle when
you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seaty?

The blame cannot fall only on the lower and
middle classes because even the snazziest of joints fall
short in bathroom manners by fault of no one but the
people using the facilities. It seems that we don't feel
we have to respect public bathrooms as much as we
respect our home bathrooms, because we are faceless
and detached from the public bathroom realm. The
public is probably not so faceless to the poor cleaning
staff that has to endure our carelessness, day in and
day out.

After thinking about this for quite some time, I
decided it was time to see how Douglas College

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