What is up with public bathrooms?
From people trading vapes to entire stalls somehow disappearing in a day, UHS bathrooms in general are always a little… off. And they are not alone. From weird interactions, to awkward silent moments, there is not a single public bathroom in the world that isn’t awkward or genuinely life threatening to go into.
Some students, like freshman Colin Guth, have never been to a school bathroom, as they are too scared to go into one. So for a quick background, there is almost always someone smoking (or selling) vapes, the stalls have no doors (or they are just gone), and the bathrooms are the victim of so much abuse, it’s a surprise the school hasn’t banned bathrooms in general.
Local expert in school bathrooms, freshman Grace Tshimankinda elaborates more. “I swear to god the school bathrooms be like clubs. When I walk into a school bathroom, I could see anything from people trading vapes like Pokemon cards to someone getting a whole entire haircut.”
These awkward experiences are not just exclusive to school or UHS bathrooms, as freshman Kelby Schroeder has had bad bathroom experiences in other locations. “I was in a rest stop bathroom and I saw [some] very nsfw writing on the stall wall.” Schroeder declined to comment further.
Now to the real problem, how and when did this ever happen? It could be due to the devious licks challenge that occurred during the recent COVID-19 pandemic in which people would demolish their local public restroom by removing sinks, stalls, etc. But I can remember school bathrooms still being sinister and bleak before then.
According to Tshimankinda, nobody knows, as bathrooms have always been the colloquial gathering place for social activities for much of human history. So until we are advanced enough to travel back in time, we won’t know the original cause of why public restrooms are always so bleak. And in the meantime, we are stuck with these shoddy, falling apart, practical prison bathrooms filled with people trading vapes and fighting for no reason for the rest of our lives.
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