Kyle's Restroom Drama

Ok. I have some restroom drama for y'all.

The other day I had planned on writing about an incident at work involving a unisex bathroom, but I developed a fish-related gastrointestinal problem which prevented me from blogging. That's part one of the Restroom Drama.

Part two: that unisex incident I mentioned. The biopsych secured floor has a unisex bathroom that can get pretty dirty at times, being crowded and lacking a urinal and all. So, my friend Nicola tapes a sign above the toilet reading "Next time, try aiming". Not knowing who the sign poster was at the time, Steve and I thought it would be funny to anonymously tape little bullseye targets all over the bathroom--which I did. Apparently, the janitor came in later and thought that people were urinating all over the toilet and walls (I'm still not sure if someone had actually done that; probably not), so he emails the head of maintenance and says as much. The maintenance head sends out an email to the department scolding our bathroom manners. The chair of the department then decides to make the bathroom women-only. Another faculty emails saying that this is unfair. The chair emails again restating her point and adding that she'll place a sign on the door and expects people to obey. A little later we get another email from the chair, who is now upset with us because someone has ripped down the women-only sign. So she decides to put a lock on the bathroom to end the drama. Meanwhile, my advisor confronts me about the incident thinking I had something to do with it (which I did of course). I tell him as much as I know and he decides to straighten things out with the building maintenance man. I don't think much came of it, but my advisor later told me that the biopsychology faculty all think that there is a crazy biopsych student who has been pissing all over the bathroom walls for awhile (which is not true), and that the entire Psychology department is hearing similar exhaggerations of the events as well. So, I think by now most people know that I was the catalyst to the unisex bathroom drama and I suspect that a few people assume I'm responsible for the wall pissing, which probably never happened in the first place.

Kyle (aka G.I. Joe)