Ew

Ok, so I realize different people have different social beliefs. But I think that everyone should be with me on this one.

Yesterday morning I went to wash my hands in the women’s public restroom in my workplace/school—I’m a graduate student at a university and this is a restroom shared by female students and faculty in my department. While I’m washing my hands, a professor comes strolling out of one of the stalls. With a NEWSPAPER. She was in a stall, in a public restroom, with a NEWSPAPER. I’m guessing reading.

Ok, so old men will read in the bathroom and I’m okay with that. As long as they do it at home. You don’t read in a public restroom. Ew. Ew. Ew. Because if you have enough time to read in a public restroom, that suggests, at least to me, that you are doing more than you should be doing in a public restroom.

Am I wrong on this? Admittedly, I have issues with public restrooms in general—ok, and I have a certain phobia about using the facilities in other people’s houses as well—but it’s stories like this that add to my fears/disgust. But come on, leave your reading material at home on your nightstand. And you don’t drop the kids off at a public pool.