Tuesday 11 December 2007

Unisex toilets - why?!

I work in a fine little company in Glasnevin. The only annoying thing about it is that it is in a building that houses four or five other smallish companies and all of them have unisex bathrooms. It is SO annoying!

Firstly, there are two toilets that we use, only one of which contains a sanitary bin. Come on lads, what's that all about?! So you go down to the loo at that time of the month, you try the first one, it is locked. There is no point in going to the second one as there is no sanitary bin so you can't dispose of your tampon wrapper. What are you supposed to do? Put it in your pocket and bring it back up to the bin beside your desk, I think not!

Secondly, lads seem not to have an issue with privacy. A couple of weeks ago one of the ladies walked in on a dude, presumably taking a dump, as he was sitting. Not only that he was yabbering away on the phone. He looked up nonchalantly. She screamed! He continued to chat. I had a similar experience myself a few days ago. I walked in on a bloke standing up peeing, as you do, and as he half-turned around to see who was invading his privacy I could hear the splish splash of his urine hitting the tiles on the floor. DISGUSTING!

The creators of Ally McBeal have a lot to answer for. Some gobdaw obviously thought that if he built unisex toilets then they would come. By they I mean the beautiful Portia de Rossi types who swing their blonde manes in wide circles in such an alluring manner. He obviously hadn't counted on me dressed like a knack ambling in on suckers who've left the door open!

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