On the subject of public restrooms/lavatories/loos...Women are forever complaining about how men always leave the seat up, or how they have this annoying tendancy to "mark their territory" by letting fly with a particularly aimless stream of urine, thereby insuring that any proud young buck that happens to venture into their territory is damn sure that this particular bathroom belongs to the mark-er, and cannot possibly be mistaken for anyone else's. (Although I'm pretty sure that this isn't the only reason that these mysterious little puddles are usually found in odd places in the bathroom...) While this may sometimes be the case, I'm starting to notice more and more that women have an equally, if not far more annoying, tendency to squat over the toilet bowl, hovering just inches above it's rim, safely out of the teeming masses of germs that are surely waiting to do them in. . They then proceed to spray the ENTIRE area in the least dainty of ways. Then, without a casual thought about the next person to encounter this urinary warzone, they whisk themselves to the sink and wash up, 'cause they don't want to spread infection, see... 

Another irritating bathroom habit that women have, is that they drape these highly ineffectual paper "seat covers" over the surface of the offensive bowl, whether it's already littered with "battles long past" or not, so as not to have any bacteria or (god forbid) the AIDS virus jump on their pristine, relatively germ-free asses (as if any human backside could be described as such), which they then promptly do NOT flush or throw away. They just kind of linger there with all these little telltale wet spots for people like me to come in and clean up. What am I, a maid?? Can't these people flush the damn things down the toilet? The irony is that the more civilized and clean the condition of the bathroom originally is, the messier the patrons of said bathroom get. It's inexplicable... 

So the next time you decide to use a public "facility"...try to be considerate enough of the person that comes after you (and there WILL be one...) to clean up after yourself. I really hate swabbing down toilets just to use the li'l girls room... 

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