Just clean up after yourself. It’s not that hard.

If you’ve ever used the Butler women’s bathrooms, you’re probably familiar with how disgusting of a condition the bathrooms are in. Toilet paper everywhere on the ground, things left on the stands in front of the sinks, and period/tampon waste not properly disposed of are all common sights. But what I see the most in the Butler women’s bathrooms before I sit on the toilet seat to either relieve myself or cry for 20 minutes is – you guessed it – other people’s pee on the toilet seats.

I literally do not understand why you all can’t clean up after yourselves. No one wants to see your disgusting leftover urine that’s been fermenting for maybe hours when they just want to take a break from studying to use the bathroom. Is an Ivy League education not enough to educate you to clean up your pee? Does there need to be a new addition to the Core Curriculum that teaches you proper bathroom etiquette? Are some of you literally not potty trained?

It’s not only about my own personal disgust when I see your dried up pee on the toilet seat. Could you at least consider what the Facilities workers have to go through? They already do so much for us cleaning the rest of the atrocities of the Butler bathrooms, and on top of that, you make them clean up your disgusting urine? (This also goes for literally anywhere else on campus – clean up after yourself, Facilities workers aren’t your maids.)

If we all learned to clean up after ourselves after we use the bathroom (and flush the toilet too because some of you also forget that), the world would be a better place. So please, do me, and the rest of the Columbia community, a huge favor. Before leaving the bathroom stall, ask yourself: “Did I clean my pee off of the toilet seat?”

Picture of something you bathroom sinners have probably never used in your life via Wikimedia Commons