date: 2023-10-16
subject: Don't tear off that moldy bathroom stall panel!

Don't tear off that moldy bathroom stall panel! - 2023-10-16 - TOGoS's Journal

Fizz reported this dream:

I needed to change my clothes after doing something like swimming in a pool. I had my change of clothes in a bag, but I needed a place to change, so I went into a bathroom. There were two stalls, and I found that you had to go through one to get into the other. I considered going into the second one, in case someone else came in, but I decided not to.

It was a really cramped stall. I tried hanging my bag on the hook thing, but it was bent or something, and it couldn't hold my bag. I think at this point I decided to try the other stall, but then realized there was someone in there sitting on the toilet, and the wall was way too low, so it was easy to realize that. If there had been someone standing in there, we would both see each other's upper half.

Suddenly, someone outside started trying to tear off one of the panels which made the walls of the stall. It was clearly a bad idea from the start, and it was not going well. The panel, which, yes, to begin with was maybe 2'x2' and patched on, and was half-covered with a horrible black mold, was just bending badly as he tore, and big screws were stuck out all over. I was like: "WHY?!" He was being stubborn and kept trying. I decided to stop trying to change.

The guy doing that was pretty douchey, and I got the bad feeling I get when someone really hates me and wants to fight or something. I started doing the thing I do where I start saying nice things, to try to be friends or whatever, and again, it WAS a really gross panel. But I think I've grown, because I was able to accept the fact that he was in the wrong for doing that in the first place, and he never showed any remorse, and I was able to let that be, and not care about things changing further.