Brother-in-law camps out in bathroom for hours while staying at his sister-in-law’s 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house: ‘I told him I really had to go. It took him an hour to get out.’

When you live in a house with four people to one bathroom, you have to be hyper-aware of not hogging the space during incredibly inopportune times. You can’t blow-dry your hair for twenty minutes during high-traffic times, like weekday mornings. Other people’s showers and trips to the toilet are more important than standing in front …
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Math teacher only allows students 1 bathroom pass per week, gives them extra credit if they don’t use the restroom at all: ‘Both the rule and the reward are problematic’

When you’re a teenager, you don’t always have control over whether you can go to the restroom when needed. Both my minimum wage service job and my high school teachers made me ask permission to use the restroom, and if they said no, then I couldn’t go! I had a friend who peed on the …
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‘Who’s keeping track of my bowel movements?’: Micromanagement backfires when the supervisor insists on monitoring the pettiest employee’s bathroom breaks

Nobody likes a micromanager. Having a supervisor breathing down your neck is bound to affect productivity, yet corporate seems to insist on having a watchdog monitor each and every cubicle. They may be a necessary evil, managers, but at a certain point, shouldn’t the workforce feel encouraged by their presence instead of stifled?  While managers …
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New Boss Forces Employees to «Sign Out» Before Going to the Restroom

One of my least favorite things about high school was asking to go to the bathroom. I didn’t have a problem with the principle of asking for permission, but every teacher had a different policy for it. During the first week of school, I had to make a restroom cheat sheet because I had eight …
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Unfortunate Traveler Finds His Airbnb is Just a Large Bathroom With a Bed Inside

I have not had the greatest luck in the world regarding renting Airbnbs. The apartments themselves haven’t been horrible, but I have had to stand outside in the cold waiting for a landlord to drop off a key after 10-hour travel days more often than I would care to admit. For every time that has …
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School Administration Bans Students From Using The Restroom During Class

Every student has had this dreaded interaction with a K-12 teacher. «Can I use the restroom?» «I don’t know, can you?»  Not only is it unoriginal, but most children will not understand the grammatical problem at hand. That’s because there is no grammatical problem with «Can I use the restroom,» and teachers who act like …
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People Discuss the Awkwardness of Public Bathroom Etiquette

Public restrooms are rarely a fun experience. It’s a special kind of person that is happy about pooping outside their own bathroom, and it’s fair to say that they are few and far between. Having nature call when we’re out and about is inevitable, but the inconveniences that it can cause us are much less …
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People Discuss the Awkwardness of Public Restroom Etiquette

Public restrooms are rarely a fun experience. It’s a special kind of person that is happy about pooping outside their own bathroom, and it’s fair to say that they are few and far between. Having nature call when we’re out and about is inevitable, but the inconveniences that it can cause us are much less …
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Never Use Public Restrooms Again After Viewing These Unmistakably Cursed Toilets

Never is a person more vulnerable than when they’re going to the bathroom. This means that it is very important to have the most comfortable place to do it. Unfortunately, not everybody seems to think that way. There’s an awful amount of awful toilets out there and it is a damn shame we all have …
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