Brigham Young University (BYU) Bathrooms
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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I went to
the BYU library tonight. Fiance and I decided to mix up our evening meeting a
bit and have a change of scenery. Instead of him coming to my apartment (like he
has done every night for the past two weeks. what a sweetheart he is) I met him
at the library where he could study and I could work on my talk that I have been
asked to give this Sunday.
It was nice to be somewhere different for a change. As for accomplishing much, I
did ok. I think I have slight tendency for ADD when I am in a new place. I mean
there are people to watch, surroundings to admire, and to watch electronic book
shelves move! Yeah I know all you BYU people are thinking "what's the big deal?"
but in Rexburg our book shelves don't move.
Anywho...After an hour or so I asked fiance if there were any bathrooms around.
He said that there were some just out the doors and down the hallway a little
bit. It sounded easy enough so off I went to find the bathrooms. I walked just
where fiance told me to... and kept walking...and then walked a little
more...and finally got that "I have missed something" feeling.
Luckily there was a sign with directions as to where different things were in
the building. Yeah again we don't have the "You are here" signs at BYU-Idaho
either. [Pretty much we didn't have a lot of what BYU has but I wouldn't give up
my education at good ole BYU-Idaho for any moving book shelf or "You are here"
sign.] After reading the sign telling me that the bathrooms were back in the
same direction that I had just come I was thoroughly confused. I definitely
hadn't seen any bathrooms.
With no other option I headed back the way I came and there they were...the
bathrooms whose doors completely blended in with the wall! I am not kidding you
it was barely recognizable that there was two doors there. It also didn't help
that the only thing identifying that it was a bathroom was a sign the size of a
piece of paper displaying which was the boy's and which was the girls.
I don't know what BYU is trying to pull having camouflaged bathrooms but it
isn't cool. You can't do that when a girl is used to huge flashing pointing
arrows that say RESTROOMS this way! I could have very well completely missed
those doors and then what would I have done? I don't think anyone wants think
about that so let's not make finding the bathrooms like an Where's Waldo book.