Ladies… I don’t mean to pick on you exclusively, but sometimes you are
such hypocrites.
Let’s talk about the toilet seat, shall we? You expect male visitors to
leave the toilet seat the way they found it: down, right? And woe to the
hapless man who forgets even once!
Well, now let’s talk about the grim reality. The protocol in my house is
that both the toilet seat and the toilet lid stay down. Yet how many
times has a female guest left the seat down, but the lid up? Just about
every one.
It’s common courtesy for a visitor to leave your house in the same state
it was in before you arrived. So why is it so difficult for most women
to honor the same rule you so vocally demand that men live by?
Let’s take another example: the Brita. In some houses, the Brita pitcher
stays on the counter, full of room-temperature water; in others, it is
found inside the fridge, where the water stays cold. I don’t go around
putting your pitcher in your fridge, so why do some of my female friends
self-righteously insist upon always leaving the damned thing out on the
counter?
And the toilet paper… Given that the 51 percent of America that is
female uses 87 percent of the nation’s toilet paper, one
might expect them to predictably replace the roll in the same
orientation they found it. Results indicate otherwise.
How about the shower head? Do you leave it pointed in the same direction
it was when you arrived? And on the same spray vs. stream setting? And
did you remember to set the tub/shower toggle back to the setting it was
on before you arrived?
Really? You know what? Your sistren don’t.
I guess I’m beginning to see the value in having a guest bathroom. But
irrespective of that, can we lose the double standard? You’re not
gaining my respect by falsely accusing me of thoughtlessness, then
turning around and engaging in the very behavior you condemn all of
mankind for.
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