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[jay-ell]

I just leave the door open if I'm here alone with the kids.  As per Ash's observation, I find I actually get *more* privacy if I don't try to shut them out. 

Pedro, however, insists on complete isolation.  I often hear him talking to himself in there, though I can never make out the words. 

There are some things in a marriage that are better off left a mystery. 

[theinevitable]

I was talking to some other people on my floor, and I found out that the Rules about the bathroom vary from suite to suite. For us, if you're in the bathroom, it is YOURS. If you're in the shower, YOU'RE IN THE SHOWER and ain't nobody peeing in there or whatever. Some people said this was crazy, others agreed.

What I find interesting is that... everyone agreed that they had never talked about it. They all just assumed it was one way or the other and went with it.

[V-Adore]

I definitely understand the unspoken-rule thing, too. When I was in college, the code got complicated, as affected by several factors: timing (is it right before class, or at 2 PM when you can wait five minutes to pee, or what?), bathroom layout (to what degree are there stalls? Are there urinals right out in the open in an allegedly-unisex floor bath?), and so on. As such, the rules ended up very flexible indeed, although always erring on the side of "hold it / go down the hall."

That said, the best college Mysterious Bathroom Thing was the flourescent-pink hand towel that showed up in the hall bath a few male friends of mine shared my junior year. None of them owned up to buying it, and none of them knew where it came from... apparently it just materialized there and stayed because of apathy. Mysterious!

[CortesDiddy]

Ok, first off I know this is kind of a thing I'm gonna be doing where if I find an old strip from days foregone I'll comment on it, because somethin's been chompin at the bit inside me.

Anyway, I keep looking at that floor plan and I guess I picture a wide room with a tall column in the center, four sided, each with a window. Inside the column is a bathroom. I figure this is what Onstad was trying to convey here. Am I looking at this correctly? Furthermore has anybody actually been in a room with architecture like this, anywhere? Like, is that literally a feasible idea architects have thought about?

EDIT: I realize now that it's supposed to be entirely made of mirrors and thus not even a serious type of thing anybody would build. Anyway, regardless of the mirrors my question holds.

[Choop]

it's like a giraffebowl with a crapper in the middle of a pantry. your question is based on a strange and wrong interpretation of the text and diagram.

[CortesDiddy]

I don't know. I read the text and that's what I saw.  Oh well, maybe next time I bump an old strip thread it will be to say something much more interesting. Not that this wasn't too bad of a comment.



*HUGE THREE PAGE ARGUMENT*

[AugustWest]

I don't know. I read the text and that's what I saw.  Oh well, maybe next time I bump an old strip thread it will be to say something much more interesting. Not that this wasn't too bad of a comment.



*HUGE THREE PAGE ARGUMENT*

You just dredge up any old strip you want and make any kind of wacky comment you can think of and the good lord will provide.

[wombat]

We tried to do a thing where we started new threads for old strips in order and were going to like, relive history. But it didn't take off. Maybe this will work better.

[Nabubrush]

It's like those crazy Euro-toilets on the street where you can see out, but nobody can see in, except for in reverse.

You wanna talk about a fun bathroom?

[miles]

Pedro, however, insists on complete isolation.

I totally get this. The only thing I want with me in the bathroom is a shotgun, because that's when I'm most vulnerable.

A shotgun, and maybe a book.

[Carlos del Vaca]

You wanna talk about a fun bathroom?

The door needs a trompe l'oeil painting of a hole busted in the door and Jack Nicholoson peering in.

[jay-ell]

 

You wanna talk about a fun bathroom?

I like that bathroom. It pleases me.

[side_show]

Is it me, or should the wall across fromt he mirror have redrum written on it?

[jay-ell]

It sort of makes me want to print something literary all over the walls in the bathroom Pedro uses. It would have to be something you didn't mind reading over and over again, though -- either something sufficiently thought-provoking to reveal something new on each contemplation, or something that is pleasant to have memorized. Perhaps a selection from Crime and Punishment, or some excerpts from Leaves of Grass.

Just think -- you'd never sit down and realize you have to go number two and you didn't bring anything to read.

[Nabubrush]

Is it me, or should the wall across fromt he mirror have redrum written on it?

Nope, you are exactly right.