Semester in Chicago

This is my public journal while I'm in Chicago until May. I look forward to sharing the details of all of my new experiences while I'm in this fantastic city!

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

I was thinking one day...

I've always wondered which stall in the bathroom is the cleanest? I had to do some in depth searching, but I finally found someone with bathroom knowledge. I'll share some of that wisdom with you...worthless information, I know, but I'm full of it!

Use the last stall, It's usually the cleanest one. It seems many messy people are also quite lazy. The last stall is waaaay too far for them to walk.

"In the SOUTH the first stall is the cleanest, whereas in the NORTH the last stall is the cleanest (a shift in trends over the past ten years)."

While the last stall is often the cleanest, and the second stall is usually the filthiest, since most people adhere to the protocol of skipping the first stall (believing it to be the most popular and therefore dirtiest), and go to the second stall, causing the second stall to be the actual most popular one.

In Singapore, you can get fined for not flushing in a public restroom - so you wonder how they know - so you wonder if they're watching - so suddenly you can't go - problem solved
Bathroom Statistics

In 1991, Scott Paper Company did a survey to find out about people's bathroom habits. Here are a few of the findings:
  • 54% of Americans fold their toilet paper neatly, while 35% wad it into a ball before using it.
  • 7% of Americans steal rolls of toilet paper.
  • More than 60% prefer that their toilet paper roll over the top, 29% from the bottom. The rest don't care.
  • You can gauge a person's education by whether they read in the bathroom . More than 2/3 of people with master's degrees and doctorates read on the toilet. Only one in two high school graduates read while in the bathroom, and 56% of those with college degrees do.