Women's Office Etiquette

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This posting is from: Mary Beth
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Thought-provoking piece of women's bathroom etiquette from Women's
Health Magazine

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Women's Office Etiquette

By Christine Fennessy, _Women's Health_
(http://www.womenshealthmag.com/)

Women may look refined on the outside, but what goes on behind the
closed doors of the office commode is a whole other story.
(http://www.womenshealthmag.com/) pulled together a list of women's
top 10 not-so-lady-like bathroom behaviors. Any sound familiar?

1. A convenient ripping distance

I have no idea why anyone would put the TP roll on so the loose end of
the paper lies against the wall. Instead, put it on at a convenient
ripping distance. I do not want to fight with toilet rolls while
hovering over a space I'd rather not touch.

2. Grab a wad and pass it under

If you see there isn't any toilet paper in a stall, don't just sit
contentedly in the adjacent one while some poor soul walks into the
TP-less potty. Grab a wad and pass it under to her--or warn her before
she unzips. This is not a breach of etiquette or the female version of
the foot tap. It's being a good human.

3. Flush.

And it never hurts to have one last look to make sure the evidence is gone.
Should someone forget and you walk into the scene, just step on the handle,
for Pete's sake! Why would you let that stuff stew? To prove you didn't do it?

4. Do not push -- peek

When you're about to enter a communal stall, do not push -- peek. Sometimes
door locks break. Bend over. Look for feet. Stretch those hams. Move on.

5. Clean it up

Women don't usually pee in a straight line unless we've been holding it
all morning. When you squat, there's the inevitable fizzle, the
berserk nature of your bladder on its spin cycle. Who knows why this
happens, but it does. You are responsible for it. Clean it up.

6. You'd rather not talk about it

Resist flowery and fragrant aerosols. They can turn the air thick, heavy, and
fake -- and it's like a silent scream declaring to the entire floor
that you
just did something you'd rather not talk about.

7. Wipe it up

Even if your mane is to die for, hair becomes vile once it falls off the
head. Don't brush over the sink -- and if you do, wipe it up. Wet hair
clumps look like dead animals, and there's nothing worse than watching
hair and soap battle it out down a drain.

8. Don't hang there

Bathrooms are not office space. Don't hang there. Don't wait for your
coworker to finish. Go somewhere nice, and leave users in peace.
(Likewise, if you recognize the shoes of the person in the next stall,
lose the cross-stall chit-chat.)

9. Residual wads of TP

Don't leave residual wads of TP floating in an otherwise clean bowl,
even if all you did was blow your nose with it. When newcomers don't
know where that paper has been, they may flush before use, fearing the
splash effect. This is
wasting water. We don't like that.

10. It should disappear

If you just got back from your trip to a developing country where people
live on a gallon a day, do not inflict your newfound POV on users.
Yellow, in the United States, should never mellow. It should disappear,
just like all our unwanted stuff. To that place called "away."

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This posting is from: kumiko yvonne watanabe
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I went to the website...had a bit of problem finding the article:

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/bathroom-etiquette

Its under slide show: Bathroom Ettiquette

One I would question:

> When you're about to enter a communal stall,
> do not push -- peek. Sometimes
> door locks break. Bend over. Look for feet.
> Stretch those hams. Move on

I would rather just look for open doors. Period.

Peeking through the door cracks, or bending over
in a male fashion or squatting like a male or if not
passing well and open the door to a gg that is
using the stall are bad options. It could also lead to other
charges if you are read by other ggs in the restroom.

What is also interesting is the blog responses to:

"Tell us what bothers you in the office bathroom"

Some responses may help us actually to avoid some
observed chances of more attention being drawn
to you:

> "Why do you feel the need to sit in the stall next to me,
> when there are 10 other stalls to choose from??"

So - choose a stall AWAY from being next to someone
if possible, at least one away if possible.

> "Wash your hands...the right way! Splashing water on your
> hands does notcount! All I can think about is how am I going to
> avoid touching allthe things she has and will touch."

Please, please wash your hands before leaving! It can be
a flag for ggs to look at you, and for the rest of us.

> "I hate cheap bathroom stalls whose handles break off and limit the
> number of stalls available to use. But, if you need to use a broken
> onebecause the rest are occupied, roll some TP around three fingers
> abouta quarter to half an inch thick, then wedge it into the space that
> exists where the latch should be. It keeps the door closed while
> alerting people to the fact that someone is using that stall."

This is actually a good advice! Unless there isn't much TP left
on the dispenser.

> "Two biggest peeves for me whether office or public bathrooms: leaving
> the paper toilet seatie halfway flushed. Secondly nose buggers on wall
> worse yet the TP will be right next to the buggers. why wasn't it used?"

Please don't do that... you might have a irate female looking at
you...again bringing attention to your behavior. Yes, I've seen
nose stuff too! I wonder if it is nose snot or something else
that could be more nasty.

> "Why is it women are still so immature? It's a bathroom and we are allhuman.
> If someone passes gas or is having a movement don't laugh,giggle, or joke.
> It's just rude."

I wouldn't do this if one doesn't have a really good controlled femme
laugh. Talking femme is hard enough.

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