Have you ever walked into a public restroom only to discover you have to hold your breath? That some anonymous person behind door number 3 has unleashed a gas cloud so toxic that you wonder if they are human. I swear they should have a red light outside the door to warn you not to go in. What kind of food combinations cause that? Are there unwritten rules of etiquette for when you’re in that situation? How do you identify the culprit? Is it OK to yell at them? Do women have to deal with this too?
If it’s a public place and I encounter that smell, I can wait until I find another bathroom. The unwritten rule of etiquette is to hold it.
What really bugs me is that somebody where I work must eat rotting carcasses and vegetation, and saves up the bathroom break for when he is at work. At long last we have got him (whoever it is) to spray some of the scent around the room that we keep for that purpose. However, they’ve gone from supplying the nice, apple-smelling scent to something called Odo-Ban. So now when you walk in, it smells like somebody shat a toxic eucalyptus.
Our Smell-Good-Spray-Stuff smells just like lemon Pledge. It’s almost worse in really large quantities than the original gas cloud which merited its use. At least they’ve switched from whatever used to make it smell like a Louisiana cathouse.
Always ask: “lieu is that you?” 