Aeroplane Lavatories
Do you know how many people use the bathroom on an airplane on a 4 hour flight? More than you would think. I mean 2 bathrooms for an entire plane of people, but wow! One guy used the bathroom 4 times!!! A guy! It is only 4 hours I mean really. Yes, yes you are wondering why I know all this. Well, truth be told staring at the bathroom line was more interesting than reading my book on the first flight from Phoenix to Charlotte (in transit to Detroit). I started thinking about how many people squeeze into that tiny place–did the engineers expect it to be used or was it intended for emergencies only? Was it built so small as a joke and they ran out of time to change it? Do you think anyone has ever tried to “see how many people fit inside an airplane bathroom”? Hmm…
So one of the bathrooms was “non-operational”. We started speculating the reasons for it being “out of commission”. Throw up? Missed the toilet? Locked from the inside? A dead body? What else do you talk about with perfect strangers that you are sandwiched next to for 4 hours in seats that were designed to hold people—well people that don’t have to turn sideways to walk into the bathroom and that can do a dance routine and change clothes and.. well you get the idea. The guys next to me weren’t big at all—the plane just wasn’t built to carry normal size humans I don’t think.
Yes, a lot of useless questions–you should have known me as a child–it was worse!
Yes, many more questions as a child. Remember- “How does the car work, Mom?”