So I’m at work, I just got back from a lunch break, and a co-worker says this to me in case I happen to go to the restroom.
Me: Whaaaa?
Him: yeah, apparently there was a bit of a fight in there.
I asked him if he knew any other details - why they were fighting, if he saw anything, etc. but he really didn’t know anything else (other than that one of the stall doors was also damaged).
I work in the basement of my university’s library. What could have compelled two guys to start a fight in the restroom is beyond me.
Is this a university bathroom open to the public, kind of out-of-the-way, where anybody needing to can tell when there’s somebody coming before they enter?
Hell, who knows? Last summer, two guys at my work place got into it over trival stuff, big fist fight, still trying to get to each other over the security guards, both of 'em not only got fired, but worse, got their security clearances pulled.
I mean, day-am, take it outside the post…worst you get there is a misdemeanor on your record, and they usually don’t pull your clearance over that. You may lose your job, but you’re still employeable.
Never understood that mentality, in general. Like you said, though…
Open to the public - check. Kind of out of the way - check, because it’s in the basement and the main library traffic doesn’t usually come down here. I suppose they could hear the footsteps of someone coming down the hall.
So are you suggesting that they arranged this fight in advance, and decided the men’s restroom in the library basement would be the best spot to have it out? That wouldn’t have even occurred to me, since I’m not generally in the business of arranging fights.
I was half-seriously, half-jokingly suggesting that, since I’ve heard university men’s rooms in out of the way places are sometimes gay pickup and assignation spots and since you didn’t specify whether one or both of the combatants were employees, that maybe a member of the public went in and and, sensing a wide stance of a stall inhabitant, made a mistaken advance.
Ummm…I believe my esteemed colleague was suggesting that said mens room was serving a certain dual purpose in the “down low” community, and that what had began as a harmless understanding quickly escalated into something a trifle more violent.
Ahh… I see. I don’t think they were employees here. I have heard of that reputation for certain men’s rooms but didn’t even think about it, nor did I imagine it went on right here.
You have no idea. Libraries (ESPECIALLY college and university libraries) are CHOICE locations for tea rooms. It’s quiet. There’s really not a lot of legitimate foot traffic. A lot of them seem to have squeaky doors or the whole area is so quiet you can hear footsteps of approaching people. Nobody does half-hourly inspections like mall restrooms get for cleanliness, because heavy use isn’t an expectation. They’re perfect!
If you start following me around, trying to beat me up with your personal interpretation of an opinion that I expressed not only in a different thread, but a different forum, you will be reported for stalking. Count on it.
The large majority of threads I don’t even read. This aint a stalking, its a random encounter.
In one thread you are adamant about it being okay to keep your (not your “your”, but the proverbial random person “your”) HIV status secret from a sexual partner. Then, in this thread, its all “man, library bathrooms are THE place for random sexual encounters” hur hur hur.
I didnt beat you up. I made a funny, based upon your position. And if you hadn’t come in here whining, nobody besides you would have even known it had anything to do with you. Guess that privacy thing isnt as important as you make it out to be.
Either embrace your wide stance stance or don’t. You set yourself up for this one.
You know WHY I even came into this thread? Because I found a bunch of blood in my workplace bathroom once. I was often the last to leave the compound/building and close up because I’d rather dick around at work an extra 45 minutes than fight rush hour traffic. I followed that after hours trail of blood down the hallway, down the stairs, down the equipment bay, across a small parking lot, into the next hangar, where I found a pool of blood next to a power saw and some saw horse. I half expected to find a finger or a dead body. After some serious searching, I found out what had happened and all was well (well just okay). So, when I hear blood in bathroom I think “oh shit, bad things can happen at work”. If you think “man, that reminds me that bathrooms are a great place for random stranger sex” when you hear about blood in the bathroom, thats all on you dude.
Report it for stalking, I don’t care.
And if the mods mod me, I’ll take my beating like a man.
I used to work in a bar and one night I went into the woman’s restroom to clean and I found a puddle of blood. I made quick sure that no one was bleeding out on the floor and left. I did not ft paid nearly enough to have to deal with that.
This entire post is so far off reality it’s floating in mushroom-unicorn land. You have no context of what I was thinking in any capacity. My responses to the two thread come from different times in my life. And if that and your subsequent post in this thread were meant to be “funny” (anti-pansy! Yuk Yuk!), you have no talent at humor, either.
After cooling down, I apologize to billfish for my first reply to him. Once isn’t even a coincidence, let alone stalking. It’s just randomness. The “anti-pansy” crap is another thing entirely. I get that you thought it was humor. I guess we all operate under delusions of some sort.
