Okay, normally these things don’t tend to bother me but it’s happened to me four times since we returned from Christmas Break and I’m really fed up with it. I may have mentioned before that there are 63 full-time employees at our school and 61 of them are female. The only issue we truly have is that there is one bathroom in the faculty room for all of us. There are other bathrooms around the school but since students can use these, it is generally frowned upon for teachers to use them as well (let’s not get into a child molestation conversation here, what were you thinking about!)

Anyway, many times when you get to the faculty lounge either someone is IN the bathroom or someone has just left the bathroom. As I mentioned above, it has recently occurred four times that I have entered the bathroom only to find that the previous tenant has gone ***number 2*** in there and then sprayed half a can of some fruity smelling ‘air freshener’ in the 4′ by 4′ room without a ceiling vent. Of course, I’m a guy and I could care less what the bathroom smells like when I need to go BUT, and I am serious here, my issue is when I leave the bathroom. Naturally, someone is waiting to go into the bathroom after me and who do you think they believe made that room smell like fruit flavored poop. Yesterday, I came out of the room and 3 people were lined up in the queue and when the fruitpoop hit them, they all looked at me with this incredulous look like I had just offended their entire genealogy. Well that did it, I pointed at the person who came out of the bathroom before me and I said “Don’t look at me, SHE DID IT!”

So now I’m in the doghouse with the 6 teachers that were in the faculty room (and by tomorrow, I’m sure, the other 55 females) all because I pointed out that I’m man enough to claim my own but I’m not about to take the blame for somebody else’s lack of discretion. It just goes to show that a guy cannot win in a female-dominant world.

Employee of the Month!

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As a special side-note, for those of you who might be wondering where the heck I’ve been lately; a full account of my whereabouts would be entirely too humorous for a single post but suffice it to say that while in Louisiana for Christmas Break I was too ‘preoccupied’ with adult beverages to post. On the drive home, I got completely sick and was darn near bedridden for almost a week. Yes, my computer is portable, no I did not feel like walking ALL THE WAY DOWNSTAIRS to get it; it was that bad: also, there was two seasons of Boston Legal DVD’s to watch but that had NOTHING TO DO WITH ME NOT WRITING. Then, I started feeling better just in time to go back to work, yea! Finally, I had 3 days to prepare the house for the return of Mrs. Hobbit who was returning from Pakistan permanently, more yea! Unfortunately, the house was not as prepared as Mrs. Hobbit thought it should have been so I’ve been laying low (meaning I have gone nowhere near the computer which is seen as ‘goofing off’; no, I don’t know why) so that I do not offend her while she was cleaning up. This brings us up to yesterday in which I balanced the checkbook in Quicken and performed the website maintenance tasks that I get paid to do. Today, I’ve felt a little safer and decided I could risk a post. Shut up June!