Monday, April 02, 2007

i'm judging you, and i don't like you.

dear small mousy crazy weird lady who works on my floor,

i didn't judge you when, on your first day, you walked into the men's restroom accidentally.

i didn't judge you when i heard that you were taking naps on one of the armchairs in the ladies' restroom. during business hours.

i didn't judge you when you left your toothbrush in the ladies' restroom. despite the obvious: ew.

and i tried very hard not to judge you every time you insisted on NOT closing the ladies' room door, thus allowing me to hear you pee, cough, flush the toilet, wash your face and brush your teeth. from. my. desk.

i tell you it got harder when, as i started closing the door for you when you refused to, you did not take the hint and start closing it for yourself. but truly, i tried not to judge.

but now? now i'm judging. now i have put yellow signs on the bathroom door politely requesting ladies' room patrons to close the door. and now, you still won't close the door. so i'm judging. and this is what i think:

  • you're strange.
  • you may eye contact with no one, leading me to believe you think you're invisible.
  • you wear glasses that i think you stole from an 80-year-old russian man on the bus.you have terrible manners.
  • and you are a bad, weird, rude person for not closing the goddamned motherfucking bathroom door behind you.
  • i think you grew up in a barn, lady. because i don't even do that at home. let alone in an office full of people who can, let me remind you, hear you pee from their desks.
  • i am angry with you. i don't like you. you are smaller than me, and i am scrappy. i'm saying i could take you. i could so take you, lady.

i swear to god if you don't start closing the bathroom door i'm going to lose my fucking mind.

4 comments:

Don't Be Silent DC said...

Why don't you close it on her and lock her inside? Then she'd get the hint...I'm kidding.

There's gotta be some way to handle this woman. Did you think about reporting her to HR?

Anonymous said...

Sorry to hear that.

Can you just tell her to close the door behind her? Some people just need to be told to do something otherwise they won't do it (because they're weird and maybe, eh, jerks.) Then if she still refuses to do it, I'd ask other people who have to hear her pee to tell her to do it too. Basically shame her to do it.

Anonymous said...

maybe she's autistic or something??? In my professional opinion that's the box I'd put her in.

S said...

thanks for making me feel like an ass, anonymous #2! ;)

UPDATE: she has started closing the door. and i didn't even have to physically assault here. three cheers!