I went to Palo verde, a few years ahead of you, bon. And I got the graffiti-laden bathroom...it was, um, an education in its own right.
Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Jun 29, 2005 10:45:55 am PDT #5535 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Kathy A - Jun 29, 2005 10:46:01 am PDT #5536 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Seriously, I'm sitting here infuriated on your (and any other girl this happened to) behalf. (Can I assume you're ok now, 20 or whatever years later?)
You're so sweet! Thanks, but I'm cool. It helped that, even though I was an early pubescent (training bra in 4th grade, period in 5th, hit top height of 5'8" in 6th), I ended up right in the average range in terms of bra size and height. I still have body issues, but they're weight-related, not puberty stuff. (The memories of having my teacher notice that I bled through my light-colored pants, the female classmate who liked to drive-by pinch my boobs, being mistaken for a teacher in 4th-grade, though, those are everlasting. Yay.)
Wolfram - Jun 29, 2005 10:49:25 am PDT #5537 of 10001
Visilurking
I'm one of those people who hate chatter in the bathroom. It's worse than chatter in an elevator.
Other day I waited for and rode an elevator with some fellow talking on a cell phone. And his end of the conversation went like this: "Right.... right.... right...... uh huh..... right .... that's right.....right..." I wanted to reach out and smack him.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2005 10:51:04 am PDT #5538 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm one of those people who hate chatter in the bathroom.
Why? I ask this as someone who detests it, but since I don't mind it so much at home, I wonder why.
DXMachina - Jun 29, 2005 10:52:35 am PDT #5539 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I wanted to reach out and smack him.
No jury in the world would've convicted you.
Wolfram - Jun 29, 2005 10:53:19 am PDT #5540 of 10001
Visilurking
Bathrooms should be temples of silence. The business to be conducted is of a highly personal nature and unless you're talking to yourself, there's really no room for discussion.
But at home I don't mind it so much either.
erikaj - Jun 29, 2005 10:54:57 am PDT #5541 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think because we all try to pretend we go in to wash our hands.
DXMachina - Jun 29, 2005 10:55:16 am PDT #5542 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The worst communal bathrooms are the military style ones with a line of toilets and no stalls whatsoever. You occasionally find them in older locker rooms.
Hi, how ya doin?
Jesse - Jun 29, 2005 10:56:11 am PDT #5543 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mind it at home, too. Of course, I live alone, so mostly what I mean is I mind it when my mother comes into the bathroom to talk to me while I'm peeing at her house.
-t - Jun 29, 2005 10:56:48 am PDT #5544 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Silence gives me the illusion of privacy. I would prefer to never have to use a bathroom that wasn't mine, really.
My elementary school had a big, round, communal concrete sink in the boy's room. There was a bar around the base you stepped on, and metal mushroom shaped thing in the middle that spritzed water like a lawn sprinkler.
They have these at Cal Expo. I think. Maybe Shorline. Somewhere where I used to go to a lot of concerts, anyway.