This week we talked on air about things that bug us when we share a bathroom with our significant other.
For me it’s pools of water left behind on the counter. It happens in the bathroom and the kitchen. I’ve tried to break hubby of the habit of rinsing – virtually prewashing – everything that goes in the dishwasher but it’s all for naught. And I can always tell when he’s done it because of the puddles left behind. In the bathroom, it’s as if a shaggy dog has just been bathed and shook his water-soaked fur around including all over the mirror.
For Derek, it’s hair. I do tend to shed a lot. It’s in my breed! He gets annoyed by swirls of hair around the sink and the annual call to unclog it. I’ve seen what comes out and it’s a hamster’s worth of my hair and my hair alone.
Blair is bugged by his girlfriend’s cats rubbing against his ankles while he’s visiting the loo. My response was, don’t let them in with you! But he says it’s more complicated than that; a combination of dark corridors, unseen creatures and an urgent need.
I got listener support for the pools of water. Apparently it’s a common complaint women have. Others agreed that left-behind hair was gross and annoying. We heard from one Dad who said he’s trying to raise two young boys who can hit the bowl but so far they’re only able to aim for the bowl area. I’ve replaced a bathroom floor where a young boy was trained to pee and I can vouch that it pretty much ruins the sub floor if you’re not on top of it, as the previous owners were not.
Although we do occasionally share the upstairs bathroom we do have separate bathrooms. Derek keeps a toothbrush upstairs so he doesn’t have to make the long trek down when fatigue has taken over but he does everything else down there. That mostly keeps the peace. Except when he has to pull out a year’s worth of hair from my drain.