Unhygienic hygiene habits.

Sometimes a person can feel even dirtier after washing up than they did beforehand.  This can be solved with the simple and considerate behaviour of cleaning up after yourself when using the toilets, bath, showers, sinks or basically anything else in the shared dorm bathrooms.  It sounds easy enough, right?  Then why is it only sometimes being done?

Tiffaney Anongdeth has no trouble in listing the two most disgusting things that she discovers in the Los Cerritos Hall bathrooms.  "I hate it when girls pee all over the seat and leave gross things in the sink," she vents.  The 18-year-old nursing student is referencing the habit that some people tend to have of washing their dishes in the bathroom sinks and leaving the leftovers to clog up the drains.

Mel Bird, 20-year-old maths and physics major, doesn't have as many issues as this in the International House.  "I actually have no quarms about sharing the bathroom.  I haven't had any issues with others.  I've never had to deal with anything other than what I deal with sharing the bathroom with my family at home," she says.  Although there has been one incident that wasn't so pleasant for anybody: "We did have someone who left a hair ball in the drain every time they showered but that stopped when the drain got clogged and we had to get maintenance in."

It's a little thing called respect for others and, sadly, some people aren't as fluent in bathroom etiquette as they perhaps should be when sharing so many personal facilities with a building full of other people.  Here's a great life motto - treat people how you would like to be treated!

The first floor bathroom sinks and toilets in the
West wing of Los Cerritos Hall.
Photo by Ashleigh Mehmed.