The Shower

The living arrangements on the rig are like a dormitory of sorts. My room is a “private room” in that it only has one bed. There are about five rooms like that. Then there are rooms with bunk beds in them – someone sleeps in there during the day, while the other person is working. Then when the other person goes to work, that person that just got done goes to bed. So they can accommodate two people in that one room. There is usually a bathroom between these two rooms that is shared by both rooms.

Then are some rooms that have two bunk beds in them and they have four people staying in them. With two people sleeping in there at the same time. These people have to share a common bathroom that is used by everyone.
When I get back to work, I typically have to clean the bathroom. Because, I share it with the two people on the other side. Here lies the problem. The bathroom is to be cleaned twice a day by the catering staff. Not sure how those people live at home, but I certainly don’t choose to live by their cleanliness standards (or lack there of).

When I went into the bathroom, there was the typical greasy hand mark on the wall above the toilet – this would be where you lean when you are urinating into the toilet. There was also snot on the wall behind the toilet. Inside the shower there was also snot on the wall. Well, since the first day you are dog tired. I choose to wait until the next night to clean the shower. When I was done for the day, I got my shower shoes on, my can of Ajax, spray bottle of Clorox cleaner and turned the shower on. I scrubbed all the walls behind the toilet, pulled the bathmat up that was growing mold and scrubbed it good. I started on the walls inside the shower. There was snot all over each wall. I had sprayed the shower down about two hours before I went into clean (good thing). As I was scrubbing the snot was just continuous. It went all the way to the tile in the bottom of the shower. The floor was icky as well as the bathmat.

Got it done, but then I was telling Pepe about how this seemed to be an excessive amount of snot.
This is how it went:
Him: That wasn’t snot
Me: What do you mean; I saw it behind the toilet. Along with the green crusty buggers on the walls in the shower.
Him: That wasn’t ALL snot
Me: Yes it was….
Him: You know what those guys do in the shower?
Me: Well yeah, they bathe
Him: That’s not all. You have heard them in there
Me: yeah and some of them pray in the shower
Him: That's not what they are praying to...............
Me: Oh dear God ! ! !

I was completely grossed out by the entire experience to begin with, now I have this visual……. Thanks BABE!!!