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Karen's Mermaid (1-6)

Aug 07, 2012 00:15

I'm bored, it's late, and I'm rereading this book over again. There isn't anything particularly snarky in it, but I'm in the mood for snark, so I'll see how much good the Snark Goggles do for this book.And really, Margo is an annoying little so-and-so so that alone should be enough for some good snark.

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xenaeilonwy August 7 2012, 04:56:42 UTC

Okay.

So a couple years ago we had to take a hellish, completely-against-my-will trip to drive my brother to see his cousin despite my brother being 30 with a car. The trip was complete hell but that's not the point. Anyway, we all have to piss so instead of pulling over at a nice rest stop he decides to pull over at this desolate truck stop bathroom.

It was the single most disgusting public bathroom I've ever seen. There was shit smeared on the walls and in corners of the floor, the floor was sticky with piss and other substances I still don't want to know the origin of, the mirror was busted, there was very little soap and I think the sink was also busted. Whoever had been in there before did not make any attempt at all to hit the toilet, and it was most likely multiple people. I was told by the 2 soulbonds who were with me at the time that WHATEVER YOU DO, WALK ON TIPTOE TO ANY SPOT THAT IS *NOT* STICKY AND KEEP YOUR LEGS *OFF* THE GROUND. I did so but do you know how fucking hard it was to find a spot on the floor not covered in piss and stickiness? I placed paper towels on the toilet and kept my legs off the ground, then gingerly tiptoed back, desperate not to step in the stickiness, and was instructed to wipe my feet on the ground a few times before stepping back in the car.

My mom, however, just traipses right through the piss and the stickiness, then gets in the car and goes "THERE WAS PISS ALL OVER THE FLOOR AND NOW IT'S IN THIS CAR." My soulbond Lightning screamed, "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU TRACK THE PISS THROUGH THE CAR WHAT IS *WRONG* WITH YOU?!" My dad got us out of there as fast as humanly possible and I have never seen a bathroom as disgusting as that one, ever. Never ever do that again, Dad. I would much rather piss in the woods and I have an intensifying mortal aversion to pissing in the woods.

queenhyprshadow August 7 2012, 05:09:22 UTC

duchess_julia August 7 2012, 08:30:06 UTC

I'd have found a spot behind a dumpster or squatted in a corner (who'd notice?) than even go near a toilet in a place like that.

glitterberrys August 7 2012, 16:38:20 UTC

I've been in bathrooms like that before and I just don't GET how they get so disgusting. WTF.

aceattorneysho August 7 2012, 22:20:59 UTC

That is like the story my friend told us after she went to the bathroom during our pee break of one of our 3 hour classes. Except that was in a college, not a horror movie rest stop. The people who do that to public restrooms are not only doing so in truck stops but also in institutes of higher learning. WE ARE NOT SAFE, PEOPLE!

dazzled_petsy August 8 2012, 00:52:01 UTC

Agreed with you on that count.

College dorm bathrooms are NASTY, and the one I was assigned to freshman year fell into a particularly bad state of disarray on Saturday and Sunday mornings. They were shut down on a nearly weekly basis because some drunk girl (probably the same one) took a dump in the shower stall, and we all had to share with the girls downstairs. I felt so bad for the maintenance person who had to clean them. I'm so glad I transferred to another hall that following semester.

peachiekene August 10 2012, 19:37:02 UTC

My husband works construction and he refuses to use the port-a-potties for this *exact* reason.
He said what makes it worse is that he knows the people who do this kind of shit (pun not intended) and it's not like it's one or two random really gross people - it's regular people who go home to their families after doing all that.
He doesn't get at all (and doesn't do it), but it's just... WHY?! Port-a-potties are already kind of gross when people are good about using them --- why make it worse?!

Incidentally on my family travels, my grandparents would only every pull over to restareas or if you had to go bad enough, they always had a roll of TP in the back so you could go in a wooded area. (I always held it rather then do that, but they were very clear the option was always there.

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