29 August 2001
The Official and the Unofficial
I worked at home yesterday, when this very official email was sent out by our highly competent office manager:
Due to the amount of traffic in the first floor restrooms I have asked the building to put keypads on the doors. They will be begin working on them today and the work will continue a couple of days. Please use the restrooms on the second and third floor if work is going on.
As is often the case, there is more -- much more -- to the story than the unlikely case that traffic is overwhelming the restrooms! Turns out that, while I was working at home, I missed out on an obese African-American woman who decided to take one of the first-floor restrooms hostage. Yes, hostage. She was found fully nude BATHING herself in the restroom, and would not let anyone IN the restroom (and why would anyone WANT to be in there?). In case anyone is wondering -- NO, there are no bathing facilities in the first-flood restrooms. I don't know if she was using the sink, or the toilet, or what to bathe herself. Frankly, I'm GLAD I don't know![Posted @ 07:53 AM CST]
