I’ve had a dull headache for the past few days. My first reaction was to silently wonder if it was a brain tumor, but my laziness usually wins over my hypochondria. Because of this, my only real plan of action to combat this dull pressure has been to drink insane amounts of water. For me… two glasses a day… I know, I’m on the verge of drowning. My headache hasn’t gone away, but I have been peeing a lot. Since, I’ve been peeing a lot, I’ve been making frequent trips to the ladies room- which I share with the public… because I work at a popular science museum. Since this is a hands on museum- the bathroom is usually filled with kids covered in some substance getting yelled at by tired moms. This is all fine and dandy, but what I can’t get used to are children peeing in stalls with the doors open.
1. It’s something I, as a single non parent-y type person, am not used to witnessing.
2. Parent-y types think it’s normal, and get made if you make a weird face as if it wasn’t.
3. Sometimes the children look at you… while they are peeing.
4. Sometimes they are crying… while they are peeing.
Yes, peeing and pooping is normal and natural and whatever other hippie adjective you can attach to it, but it’s also rather shocking and a weird thing to encounter when you are at work. Can you imagine, cubicle dwellers, if you were to get up right now, head to the bathroom and see a little boy whizzing next to the toilet, crying, and picking his nose at the same time? No? Well, I can… and I’m not proud of that either. I didn’t know that this open bathroom stall door was a thing, and I wish I could go back to the pleasant time when it never crossed my conscious.