peep show

there's something indecent going on in the bathroom at school.  not in every bathroom.  just in one particular bathroom. 

in this particular bathroom there was water damage last year.  this led to the replacement of the flooring.  well, they replaced the cream colored linoleum tile with black linoleum tile.  i'm sure the powers-that-be figured the black flooring would give the bathroom a nice clean look.  and they were right.  the floor does look nice and clean.  it perpetually looks like it's just been cleaned.  because after the installation the maintenance crew proceeded to wax the ever living crap out of the new black linoleum floor. 

it is so shiny that when you enter you grab the wall to avoid slipping on its faux wetness.
it is so shiny that if you asked it who was the fairest of them all it would answer back. 
it is so shiny that while sitting on the toilet you could bend over and pluck your eyebrows. 

i'm not exaggerating.  it is THAT shiny.  in most rooms a floor that shiny is a perk. 
in a bathroom... not so much.

at the beginning of the year i was in one of the stalls buttoning my pants when someone entered the bathroom and locked themselves into the next stall.  their shadow on the floor caught my eye so i looked down.  that's when i realized the problem with such a shiny floor in a bathroom.   i was basically standing on large black mirror which rendered the partitions between the stalls absolutely obsolete.  i could see EVERYTHING that was going on in the next stall at a very unflattering angle.  [shudder]

needless to say, i now avoid this bathroom. 
because it's like a perverse car crash.
and i would really want to look away.
or go in blind. 
but a bathroom is not the sort of room in which to blindly feel your way around.