​A Letter to Community Bathroom Users

After 20 minutes of tossing and turning before finally getting comfortable in your twin XXL bed you come to the tragic realization: you have to pee. You try your best to hold it, but eventually you give in. You know what this means: you have to get out of bed, put on shoes and walk all the way to the bathrooms. The walk to the bathroom now seems like a mini-marathon as you race down the hallway trying to get there before peeing your pants.

Dear Community Bathroom Users,

We’re all in the same boat. Nobody wants to share a bathroom with 30 other people, but we can all work together to make it a little more tolerable if we could all just follow a few simple steps.

First, and most importantly, clean your hair up (I beg you). I know, us girls tend to have lots of hair and sometimes it sheds, but come on. There’s nothing worse than walking into a shower stall with a huge hairball waiting for you or going to wash your face and seeing millions of stands of hair covering the counter-tops and sinks. So if we all clean up our own this problem could be easily avoided.

Next, put your paper towels and trash in the trash can-not near it. They have huge 30 gallon trashcans for a reason: so you don’t throw them all over floor. Yet somehow every day 20 wet brown paper towels magically appear and cover the ground surrounding the trash can (so close yet so far).

Also, clean the sinks out. These college bathroom sinks are not the same quality as your sinks with garbage disposals back at home. If you do dishes in there, your leftover food is going to get stuck on the drain. No matter how much you try to get it down the drain by running water, it’s not going anywhere. Take a paper towel and scoop it out and throw it out (in the trashcan). I think we can all agree the nauseating feeling when you go to brush your teeth and find a big pile of someone’s left over dinner chunks sitting in the sink.

There’s no question: community bathrooms suck and there’s not much we can do about it. So if we all work together we can make the bathrooms less disgusting!