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Public restrooms are not the place for silence
By Braden | April 11, 2008
Or flash photography for that matter.
Most times when I walk into a bathroom, it’s almost completely silent - a dull echoey cavern. And when somebody blasts a fog horn into an acoustically brilliant ceramic sound-wave director, I have no choice but to hear every reverberation. This is bad and wrong. When I walk in to a bathroom, I do not even want the chance of hearing what someone else is doing. And I especially don’t want anyone else to hear what I’m about to do.
Public bathrooms need to pump in some sort of loud music or noise canceling waves somewhere between the decibel level of a sonic boom and a hydrogen bomb. That way you and I can grunt in peace, neither of us knowing what the other is doing. This would also solve the problem of bathroom conversationalists. I don’t go to the bathroom to chat, neither should you.
Topics: Gripes |
Yeah, those jokers who strike up a conversation while at the urinal are, um… jokers. “Hey, wanna go into an echoey, stinky little room and talk while we try to pull shreds of paper towels out of those never-functioning dispensers?” The answer is NO.
Posted by: Logan on April 11th, 2008 at 5:41 pmA sonic boom has nothing to do with loudness, only with the relative speed of the sound source. Yes, I realize that comments like this are why I have no friends.
Posted by: Ben on April 12th, 2008 at 7:28 pm