Why I revere the D-building boys bathroom
This is my first year attending Newbury Park High School and on my very first day, I was warned about the notorious D-building bathroom. My friends had told me some horror stories about what goes down in that specific bathroom, and deciding to be a terrible friend, I did not take their advice and explored it for myself anyways.
As soon as I entered the doorway, I was instantly hit with an overpowering putrid smell of high school adolescent boys. However, I was persistent and after the shock wave brought on by the fumes faded, my expectations were shattered. I was pleasantly surprised to see a wide, open, and relatively clean bathroom with a bustling and friendly community, this is a prime contributing factor to the moods of the students that use the D-bathroom as it allows people to hang around and converse. It was only then that I realized this was the bathroom for me.
For many students, the bathroom is an integral part of high school and is much more than a place to relieve yourself; it is also a place to collect yourself, check yourself out in the mirror, observe banter and socialize. Out of all of the bathrooms in the school, there is no better place to do all of these things than the D-building bathroom.
The D-bathroom is a bastion of socialization; when I use the D-bathroom during class, I always seem to end up making a new friend. The D-bathroom is the only bathroom in the school that hosts frequent raves, which is in sheer contrast to the gender-neutral bathroom, which feels like a desolate den of solitude. When I first visited the gender-neutral bathroom, it was in use, which brought up my first qualm with the place-even though there are a plurality of stalls, the gender-neutral bathroom only accommodates one person at a time. This is too much power for one person to have. Due to the gender-neutral bathroom’s emptiness, upon entering the room, the intense solitude creates a melancholic experience that surely would make any person yearn for company and enjoy it. Personally, when I look for a solid high-grade high school bathroom, it is a necessity to have others around.
Because the C-building bathroom’s environment lacks all of the atmospheric qualities of the D-building bathroom. I am most appalled and scared to enter this decrepit lavatory. Upon walking in, the floor was sticky and the room was dimly lit. However, I was glad to run into some people, but I soon came to the realization that I was not to make eye contact with them. Like the D-building bathroom, the C-building bathroom is populated, but that is where the similarities end. There is no speaking in the C-building bathroom; there are only grunting sounds, and I have never seen one smile on anyone’s face in there.
The D-building bathroom is a vital part of the school’s community that stands far above the other bathrooms in regards to its friendly, clean and entertaining atmosphere. Whether you wish to relieve yourself, socialize, or purely desire to escape the sheer monotony of academia, the D-bathroom is the go-to bathroom for you.
