In general, I am a laid back person. I don't have a lot of rock hard opinions about small things. I do however have what I like to refer to as preferences. Some of my preferences are about how I think other people should live their lives. When someone acts outside of my preference, I am left wondering why they would choose to do what they just did. It is at these moments that I contemplate a career as a life coach, decision manager, or common sense consultant. Here's an example of someone, or an entire group of someones, acting outside of my preference...

First, let me set the scene. I work in a building with about 1,000 other people. There are five main floors in our building. Each floor has two sets of bathrooms; a men's and a women's on the north side of the building and a men's and a women's on the south side of the building. Each men's room has two urinals; one situated approximately 1.5 feet from the floor and one approximately eight inches higher from the floor.

Now, as I noted, there are two urinals. I refer to them as the tall one and the short one. Recently, I have walked into the restroom to find people that I think should be using the short urinal using the tall urinal.

This is outside of my preference. When this happens, I start to think that there shold be some sort of sign like at the fair or Disney World that says, "You must be this tall to use this urinal." I would probably draw the line at 6'1". I would say 6'0", but men who are almost six foot often claim to be.

Think the recent increase in frequency of this occurence has raised this on my pet peeve-o-meter. It just passed people who won't stop talking about Barry Bonds and steriods on the list. The increase in frequency was due to the temporary closing of the South bathrooms on the second floor of building R for retiling, which, thank goodness, has since been completed. Now, those Southies can go back to using their own bathroom. <GangSign style="Corporate:Geek">North-side</GangSign>

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