Wednesday, April 27, 2005

The Battle of What-a-Loo

The loo at my office is a major point of conflict amongst the staff. Everyone seems to want to use the loo at the same time, and anyone spending more than 5 mins inside has people vigourously knocking and shaking the door from the other side. It doesnt matter if you are a director of the firm, but if you are in the loo for a minute longer than necessary you will have a mob of people glaring and shouting at you.

I put it down as one of those things that happen when there are a lot of people competing for a scarce resource. It like being on a local train. Sometimes, you lift a foot out there and someone else slides his foot into the space you just vacated and then you have to do the rest of the journey standing on one foot.

I myself dont spend more than 3 minutes in the loo. You never know when my docile co-workers will suddenly decide to flush out all capitalist pigs and er..flush me down the toilet!