An opinion | By MORGAN SAID

‘I luv him oh yes I do, hes for me and not 4u and if by chance u take my place, I’ll take my fist and smash yo face!!’Â  Sound familiar?  Thought so’¦ second floor, second stall bathroom, M&A building.  Thank you, Robert Frost, for posting that in the bathroom for the whole entire school to see.  What year was that anyway?  1973?  Thought so.

I get it; St. Teresa’s is in all-girls school, strictly focused on academics.  I’m sure I’m not the only one who has stayed up into the wee hours of the morning doing homework or studying for a test (or Facebook stalking, but it’s all the same, so whatever).  Anyway, I completely understand that sometimes we don’t have time to shower on a daily basis and quite frankly, that’s okay.  The beauty of St. Teresa’s is that you can sometimes get away without showering, shaving, brushing your teeth, applying deodorant, washing your uniform, etc.  However, there is one hygiene glitch that I just cannot get over.  It is called flushing the toilet.  Or lack thereof. 

Not only do we neglect to flush the toilet, but there are constantly toilet paper wads and feminine products sprawled around the bathroom floor.  And what’s with the puddles of water underneath the toilets?  Is it actually even water?  I doubt the janitorial staff appreciates us leaving our gifts behind for them.

On the contrary, I love the ‘wash your hands’ signs plastered on the walls throughout the entire school.  This, however, is impossible when there is no soap in the dispensers.  Both parties should work together to make our bathrooms a better place and help combat this Swine Flu epidemic.

One would think that the smartest, most ambitious young women in the Kansas City area would be capable of such a simple task’¦apparently not.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that my brother’s bathroom may actually be cleaner than any given bathroom on the STA campus.  Yes, I went there.  And yes, he does leave the toilet seat up after each use.  Disgusting.

Bottom line: we have such a beautiful campus, but walking into the bathrooms just ruins it all.  Let’s help out the custodians, the germaphobics, me, by keeping our bathrooms clean.  Please and thank you.