One Dirty Job
I can truthfully say that I hate cleaning bathrooms. It is a disgusting, filthy job that no one will share with you even if bribed. If you ever ask a teenager to clean the toilet, you wouldn’t believe how fast they can leave the room and have something more important to do.
A little bit of trivia on my part: The more bathrooms you have, the more toilet paper you use. Go figure.
People who have more than two bathrooms are, in my mind, insane. Since they all have to be cleaned, this is hell on earth. By the way, when you think your toilet is clean, lie on the floor and look up at the toilet, oops, another gross mess needs to be cleaned. Under the rim, there is always a tell-tale sign of neglect.
One item of the bathroom that has me confused and frustrated is the shower door. How the hell do you ever get the scum off the stupid door I replaced one set of doors with another because I couldn’t get it clean. I ruined a pair of pants by getting one of them. The true-to-work-to-work solutions on my pants. It ate my pants, but not the scum. Now, I can’t get the new set of doors clean either. I am working with Barkeepers Friend. We’ll see how that works. You go into these beautiful model homes and there is not a speck of water or scum on those shower doors. I need to know their secret.
Then the toilet. Dear Lord, why do we even let boys or men use this facility? Why in the world can they not hit the hole that is certainly large enough for them to pee? Nope, when cleaning the toilet, there is pee on the back, down the front, and if you are lucky, even on the seat to share with you when you need to use the toilet. I have always put a rug down in front of the toilet. Thought that was for hygiene or something like that. Well, it is just a catch-all for you, got it, the pee that misses the large round hole further up. Makes for a nice-smelling (not) bathroom.
For the five minutes that your bathroom might smell and look sparkly clean, it is a given that there will be a line of people waiting to destroy those few moments of satisfaction. Then, if you have more than one toilet, you get to go to the next one with the same unsatisfying results.
They invented outhouses for a reason. Maybe they had the right idea as these can be hosed out and seem to be set up for the manly (messy) man.
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