My coffee kicked in quite early this morning and I was probably the first person to go into the public washroom at work. We have staff only washrooms but they are located so far that it’s just easier to go to the ones the public have access too.
Inside the male washroom there are 6 sinks, 2 stalls and 1 urinal, it’s adequate when it’s not too busy in the waiting room but let’s just say that when I go in there and someone is washing his feet in one of the sink, or another one is talking way too loud on his cell while sitting in stall #1, I just turn around and make the trek to the staff one.
At 8:25 this morning, the place was deserted, so I darted to the urinal and got into position: unzipped, feet apart and…. HORROR… there’s this thick, long, curly-ish black pubic hair just on the rim of the urinal… I don’t know why it bugs me, but it does… so I tried flushing it out prior to peeing… nothing, the water wasn’t going high enough in the receptacle to reach the hair. On to plan #2, try to aim at it while peeing to dislodge it and see the last of it. Problem is is too close to the edge that if I pee directly on it, it will splash all over the place, hit the wall, drop on the floor and then I’ll have to step in it every time I have to use the loo. Not good. But still, I tried and although I touched it with the “liquid laser”, it was just barely on the tip of hair, not enough to move it. That thing most have spent the weekend there drying in whatever it was stuck on…
I zipped up, washed my hands and went back to my desk.
Still thinking of the annoying pubic hair…
I made it my mission to try again next time I had to go, knowing that this would be in a couple of hours only…
At 10:30 when I went back, the place was deserted again and as I made my way to the urinal, I noticed the floor was all wet, the wall drippy and the pubic hair missing…
I think anyone in that situation thinks similar thoughts (as your story demonstrates), but it’s the kind of thing nobody talks about.
There’s always the option of blowing on it (from a distance), but being crusted on kinda precludes that.
Phronk, I can’t help but wonder how you’d explain what you were doing if you tried to blow a pubic hair off the rim of the urinal and someone walked in?
But yeah, I’m bothered by stuff like that too, although after seeing the state of our work toilets those ones sound lovely… ours, not so much.
Phronk & Mutant: Let’s just say it’s not the worst thing I’ve seen in that urinals, we’re dealing with some pretty angry people at the Courts. I started with the pubic hair, I might continue with other stories from that urinal…