Grievance

The staff bathrooms at work are awfully teeny. It is simply a one-seater with all the essentials and an unfortunately heavy door. This means that whenever I need to use the bathroom there is a risk that I will either have to wait for someone to finish their business, or even worse, someone will have to wait for me. It is already bad enough that I have pee anxiety in public, but when I know a busy teacher is tapping her toe outside the door, I find it terribly awkward.

Alas, this isn't the main purpose for this entry. I find on far too many occasions that I enter this bathroom about three minutes after someone does a number two. Since the door is heavy, the small gas chamber is incapable of airing out. It is already bad enough that I must hold my breath while I am in there, but I find that the time that someone is most often tapping their toes outside the door is when I am in a position such as this. Then I must exit the bathroom followed by someone else's stink with the person waiting behind me silently holding me responsible for it.

If I didn't have such an intense fear of dehydration I wouldn't run into this problem!

Jess