Everyone who lives or has lived in a college dorm knows that sharing a communal bathroom with 30 or more other women is awkward and gross. The bathroom is constantly out of paper-towels and toilet paper. Trust me when I say, there is nothing more awkward than the panic moment you have when you realize you are in a stall with no toilet paper 2 minutes before you have to leave for class. The under the stall reach and grab to steal from the adjacent stall is a skill every college student masters. Everyone has used a public bathroom at some point in their life, but let me tell you, college dorm bathrooms are far worse.

How is it possible that women living in a communal space automatically lose all sense of common courtesy and cleanliness? In a building full of high school graduates there should not be hair all over the showers, tampon wrappers littering the floor or a pile of used paper towels directly under the trash can. Most of these issues are pretty common, but I have an especially grotesque bathroom horror story that I'm sure most of you haven't encountered. Let me just say that I'm glad I lIve on the opposite side of the hall.

Revenge Urination

My dorm hall is pretty clean, at least compared to some of the other residence halls on campus. Some girls just can't seem to get the hint and refuse to clean up after themselves. One girl in particular took it to a whole new level.

A friend of mine gets up pretty early for her 8 am class, early enough to bump into our lovely housekeeper in the bathroom. One morning our dorm housekeeper was overwhelmed with frustration and decided to vent to my friend (perfectly justified). She began to explain that in the other bathroom (we have 2 on our floor), every single morning, one girl urinates on the floor of the bathroom. I don't know why this supposed adult decides that she is too evolved to use a toilet, but the housekeeper has a theory. The housekeeper expressed that she knows who the pee culprit is because there is only ever one girl up and in the bathroom when she goes in to clean. The housekeeper also decided that the disgusting girl deliberately peeing must have some sort of racial motivation. A racially motivated daily ritual of urinating in the communal bathroom, humorous and equally gross.

I don't think the incident is racial motivated and I don't have all the details but a story about a revenge urination in an already grotesque college bathroom is too comical not to share.