Quick question. Is it ever acceptable to take your coffee cup into the bathroom? I'm talking about a cup with coffee in it. Actually, maybe tea, I don't know, it doesn't matter. Let me tell you what happened...
I got ink over my hands while playing with a biro so I elbowed my way out through the door and into the gents. As I was nudging the taps on, I saw, in my peripheral vision, a mug sitting by one of the other sinks. It had no owner - the toilets were empty apart from me (scrubbing my hands under a torrent of steam and water) and this half-drunk, abandoned mug of coffee.
"That is disgusting," I said out loud, without thinking. I mean it's often struck me as really odd that we clean our teeth in the same room that we... well, you know. All I'm saying is the toilet roll and the toothbrush are weird roomies if you ask me, let alone the drinking receptacle. It seems particularly distasteful to carry your coffee into the men's toilets, a room which spends half its life smelling like the gateway to Hades.
Before I'd finished declaring my disgust into empty space, a toilet flushed and one of my colleagues emerged from the cubicle. He smiled at me in the mirror, took a swig of coffee and then proceeded to wash his hands.
Unbelievable.
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