Post-Bathroom Hygiene
April 4, 2008 | Filed under Body, Relationships/Men
So on top of cleaning domestic residences with my mother while my father is out of action, I’ve also been taking his spot cleaning offices at night on a twice-weekly basis with my aunt. My role is fairly simple – empty wastebaskets, vacuum, mop and dust.
It’s not work that requires a lot of concentration, so I find my mind wandering. Occasionally it’s musing upon world issues and how I could solve them if the people of this world ever came to their senses and elected me as dictator, but mostly, it’s upon fairly mundane issues.
Like the question, why, in a male-dominated office, are there fewer used hand towels in the wastebasket in the male bathrooms, than there are in the female bathrooms. Based on the personal evidence at each desk in the office, I’d say there’s a 70-30 ratio of males to females in the company, yet there’s about 80% more used hand towels in the female bathrooms. There’s a few assumptions one could make based on this evidence:
- The men in the company don’t ever use the bathroom
- The men in the company don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom
- The men in the company dry their hands on their pants after washing their hands after going to the bathroom
Call me pessimistic when it comes to the hygienic habits of the male sex, but I’m more inclined to believe that it’s the second option…especially when you consider that you should never eat the beer nuts in a bar/pub/club, because studies have shown that they’re most likely contaminated with traces of urine, left behind by errant males.
So a note of advice to all men: Wash your hands after you urinate or defecate.
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When I used to work closing shift, I’d have to clean the bathrooms. In most cases, the men’s bathroom was cleaner. Women were more likely not to flush, to not completelt put sanitary napkins inside the little box, etc. Every once in a while you’d find a dirty magazine in the men’s room, though. Dirty both in content and by what the male did while reading it…
Are the women’s bathrooms dirtier there too or are women just more carefree when shopping?
Skye on April 4, 2008 #
My best friend works at an office building… with probably TWO WOMEN in the whole place.
And they go through, I kid you not, 3 times as much toilet paper as the men.
He rants about it all the time. It’s amusing.
Mar on April 5, 2008 #
I used to work in an office building doing telesales and, whilst the males had, on the whole, worse hygiene than the women, there was a memo posted around that asked if women would stop standing on the toilet seat (yes, standing on the toilet seat) to urinate, as they were ‘missing’. :P
Kelly on April 5, 2008 #
“…because studies have shown that they’re most likely contaminated with traces of urine, left behind by errant males.”
People do studies on this stuff? o_O
Kycoo on April 5, 2008 #
I used to work for a company, that cleaned offices and labs. It seemed to be more male dominated as well. It’s true, women use way more hand towels than men. Although, the urinals in the mens room were quite disgusting, their stalls weren’t all too bad..compared to the women’s facility….there’s a reason for those ugly metal/sometimes plastic compartments screwed into the wall, though it seems, most women haven’t yet figured out yet, what exactly they are there for…..
However, being the youngest, and only female child of 5, I can assure you, number 2 is the correct answer.
Beth on April 5, 2008 #