I know that I’m putting off what I hinted at last week, but I’d like to have a few more ducks in order before I shoot them all down. I posted something over on my LiveJournal for friends of mine there, because I wanted my friends to know what was what before I went blabbering all over the whole intarweb, but its not hard for those who are intelligent enough to at least figure out the fringe details. Sorry that I haven’t posted about it here, though. I promise I’ll fill in most of the blanks hopefully by the end of the week. I want this to be better footed than just a reveal. I want this to be substantial.

So speaking about substantiability, I feel that its only fair that I mention something because I’m tired of seeing it.

Frequently, I find myself visiting the bathrooms on campus. Be it either a massive shadoobie that I need to squeak out, or just an overload of water and energy drinks in my system, sometimes you just have gotta go.

And like any other guy who knows the rules of the bathroom (don’t look to your sides, just straight ahead or down; shake twice, anything more is playing with it; urinal rules for spacing; courtesy flushes), well, there’s a common sense rule that I wish more people knew as a whole:

I just left the bathroom and a guy who walked in after me was out before me. Why? Because I took time at the sink and some soap and water. Seriously.

When mankind dies epically in however many years that it takes and its from disease transmission, its because we didn’t cover our mouths when we sneezed, or we didn’t wash our hands after we did that, or maybe we wiped our asses with our left hand and didn’t use some soap.

People have looked at me funny when I throw a wet paper towel on the ground when there’s no trash can, right by a bathroom door. You want to know why? Because I tried to protect my hands for a few minutes after leaving the bathroom by washing them, and I’m not going to have that dashed at the door by the moron who walked in two minutes after me then shook three times at the urinal four down from me and then walked out five seconds before I did because he didn’t stop at the sink.

It doesn’t take much, and I’m no Adrian Monk, but this is just the least that anyone can do to be courteous to the person behind you.

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