8 Things You Would Only Experience Using a Community Bathroom
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8 Things You Would Only Experience Using a Community Bathroom

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8 Things You Would Only Experience Using a Community Bathroom
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Going into college, there is one thing most of us don't request: community bathrooms. From the horror stories we hear to the things we see in movies, community bathrooms have a bad reputation, and most of us would rather have a suite-style room so we can have our own bathroom. However, some schools have limited suite-style rooms, if any at all. If you go to a school like Michigan State, most dorms are built with only community bathrooms, and it's just something you have to learn to deal with. While there are many perks to having a community bathroom, like never having to clean or buy your own toilet paper, there are many downfalls and sometimes awkward moments you experience within one of these restrooms.


1. Taking a shower and realizing you forgot your towel in your room.

When you have a suite-style room, your towel is next door and it's no big deal. When you have a community bathroom, you have to air dry and brave the disgust of having to put on your dirty clothes because your towel is down the hall.

2. Finding hair in the bottom of every shower stall.

Michael Scott says it best down below.

3. When you are running late and all the showers are being used.

With a suite-style room, you are only sharing a bathroom with three other people. With a community bathroom, you have to question whether you go to class feeling gross, show up 20 minutes late, or just not go at all.

4. When you are running late and the cleaning lady is cleaning the bathroom.

It's a struggle when she just mopped the floor and you are running around trying to avoid slipping and falling on your face.

5. Overhearing stories regarding the party or break-up the night before.

In a suite-style room, there are only three other people to hear crazy stories from. In a community bathroom, there are at least 40 other people you can live vicariously through. From so-and-so's fight with her boyfriend to so-and-so's night she doesn't remember, there are a lot of good stories you can and will overhear.

6. Finding condom wrappers in the garbage outside the shower stalls.

Again, Michael's face says it all as you strategically pick a shower you hope wasn't "used".

7. Taking a dump.

There's nothing more awkward than knowing someone is in the stall next to you. We all like a little privacy, but it's limited when you share a bathroom with 40 other people.

8. Someone puking in the stall next to you at 2 a.m.

Take it away, Michael.



Although there are many perks of having a community bathroom, there are also many negative aspects and awkward, disgusting moments you can experience in the meantime.

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