Public Bathrooms 3

I'm fond of public bathrooms in spite of the fact that they're usually dirty and contain annoying "new technologies" for hand-washing and drying. I'm fond of them because more often than not, I have humorous experiences there. In those instances when I don't, I'm afforded with a short moment of introspection to make those random observations I hold so dear.

Public bathrooms at the airport are particularly fruitful. Perhaps it's because of the transitory nature of its patrons. Perhaps its because of the relative anonymity of its guests. Thinking of it, public bathroms are probably the closes thing to an immediate ancestor to the internet.

Today I was at DIA, Denver International Airport, owner of some of the cleanest and most well-maintained bathrooms on the planet. While using one of their space-age urinals (the space-age was the 1960's, right?), the kind with the auto-flush sensors, I noticed a small sticker. It had been placed just below said sensor, with some care. It was a small sticker of a cartoonish looking sheep. It begs the question, what kind of person places a sheep sticker on a public urinal (are there really private urinals?)? If it were on one of those low-ride junior urinals, I would have assumed it was the work of a child, proud of his ability to make a lasting impression on his world by placing his beloved sheep in such a public location. But I was using a big boy urinal, and the placement of the sticker would be out of the reach of all but the most pituitarily challenged youngsters. This was the work of an adolescent at the very least.

If the sticker had been from a new article of clothing, I might have understood the motivation of its past owner. A tiny alligator, or a jockey on a horse would not have been so surprising. A sheep, though, was. I'm not aware of any significant clothing line branded with a cartoonish sheep. Are you? If so, let me know.

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