Thursday, January 15, 2009

Camouflaged Bathroom

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.
(Where's the door???)

3 comments:

natalie leavitt said...Best Blogger Tips[Reply to comment]Best Blogger Templates

Marisa, this is your future bro inlaw, Brent. Nat showed me this bathroom story and I couldn't help but tell you that is not a bathroom story. A bathroom story includes real "problems." Sometime you might ask me, or Blair (she knows most of them because it's apparantly funny that dad has bathroom "problems") about the Delta Center, the mission, or most recently, Horeshue bend. "Anywhoe" hopefully will see you guys soon.

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uh huh, i know what your talkin about. I too go to the BYU library for a change of scenery while i work on stuff. But since "finace" i snot with me i get that accusing "are you here to get picked up on?" um, no. just here because i'm tired of being in my little atic room typing with no sign of human life. yea, adn the bathrooms are tricky. haha

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