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plumtreeblossom) wrote2009-05-12 02:02 pm
plumtreeblossom) wrote2009-05-12 02:02 pm
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Bathroom As Theatre
Sorry to be harping about this again, but I was just reading miles of complaints on TripAdvisor.com about hotels surprising their guests with glass bathroom walls that leave the toilet totally exposed. I LOATHE this invasive and presumptuous trend in "decorating." Seeing so many others uncomfortable with it too was validating, but the fact that there were so many underlines the problem of how widespread it's becoming.
Priceline has landed the Wabbit and me in some pretty shi-shi digs for less than the price of a motel. For the first time in my life, I'm considering looking at European-style hotels with shared bathrooms. Its more inconvenient, but at least I know I'll have real walls! Oh, and all of you people who stay at the Pod; stick to the shared bathroom rooms. The en-suites are being rennovated to have glass bathrooms. Some already have them.
You're probably saying "Plumtreeblossom, why are you so up in arms about this when you only travel a few times a year?" Well, because I DO travel a few times a year, and I don't want my comfort levels dictated to me. I know one person who has seen this over-share design in someone's house, so it's not just hotels. I hate it because it seems to send the message "You are bad to want to hide anything about yourself." It also says "If you need an opaque toilet enclosure, you are a hopelessly unsophistocated hillbilly who ought not darken our chic doorway with your parochial sensitivities."
I need to know just how alone or not I am in this rejection of forced exposure. to that end:
[Poll #1398758]
Priceline has landed the Wabbit and me in some pretty shi-shi digs for less than the price of a motel. For the first time in my life, I'm considering looking at European-style hotels with shared bathrooms. Its more inconvenient, but at least I know I'll have real walls! Oh, and all of you people who stay at the Pod; stick to the shared bathroom rooms. The en-suites are being rennovated to have glass bathrooms. Some already have them.
You're probably saying "Plumtreeblossom, why are you so up in arms about this when you only travel a few times a year?" Well, because I DO travel a few times a year, and I don't want my comfort levels dictated to me. I know one person who has seen this over-share design in someone's house, so it's not just hotels. I hate it because it seems to send the message "You are bad to want to hide anything about yourself." It also says "If you need an opaque toilet enclosure, you are a hopelessly unsophistocated hillbilly who ought not darken our chic doorway with your parochial sensitivities."
I need to know just how alone or not I am in this rejection of forced exposure. to that end:
[Poll #1398758]
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Let's see how they feel about their design after I make a trip to Boston Market for some creamed spinach.
They should be forced to sit there and watch with their eyes pried open like clockwork Orange.
This is what I like to call a degenerate trend1, and we see it in lots of things these days. Whatever happened to reaching for the heights of design, instead of vying for position on the bottom?
1. I use the term degenerate here in the particle physics sense, not the more common sense.
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I agree, these designers should be forced to observe the fruits of their "creativity." They should be tied in a chair directly in front and upwind of their free-range toilet and forced to witness as a long line of baked bean eating contest participants each take their turn.