Why?
My mother works in a building where her company shares the ladies room with the other companies on her floor. There's an epidemic of women there who apparently don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom, she says. You can tell. We've all sat in the stall while someone leaves an adjacent stall and we listen and watch through the little seam in the stall door to see if they wash their hands or not. Um, at least I have. :;ahem::
Anyway, she and her co-workers were completely disgusted by this habit so she put up a sign that simply said "Please Wash Hands."
And the next day, there was a big FUCK YOU scrawled on it.
So her co-worker decided to put up another sign. That one was summarily torn down. She was going to post another but my mom told her not to bother.
Why, I ask, why such hostility toward a simple request? A request to be considerate and hygenic? What makes a person react that way to a sign that asks them to wash their hands? What kind of person is that who writes FU on the sign and tears it down? I think asking people to wash their hands is an innocuous request, right? I mean, it's not like my mom wrote: Wash Your Hands, You Disgusting Slobs. I don't understand it. I just don't get it. What kind of people are in this world? It's scary. It really is. It sounds so stupid that such a minor thing would shake me so much, but it did!
Anyway, she and her co-workers were completely disgusted by this habit so she put up a sign that simply said "Please Wash Hands."
And the next day, there was a big FUCK YOU scrawled on it.
So her co-worker decided to put up another sign. That one was summarily torn down. She was going to post another but my mom told her not to bother.
Why, I ask, why such hostility toward a simple request? A request to be considerate and hygenic? What makes a person react that way to a sign that asks them to wash their hands? What kind of person is that who writes FU on the sign and tears it down? I think asking people to wash their hands is an innocuous request, right? I mean, it's not like my mom wrote: Wash Your Hands, You Disgusting Slobs. I don't understand it. I just don't get it. What kind of people are in this world? It's scary. It really is. It sounds so stupid that such a minor thing would shake me so much, but it did!