Plumbing

Beautiful tile work in a bathroom of Lathrop Hall, where I work:



Less beautiful in the same Lathrop Hall bathroom:



Frances: I caught seven roaches in the men's bathroom and put them in the toilet with a LOT of bleach trying to kill them. I just wanted to warn you.


Indeed, the bathroom smelled like a large cylindrical tub of swimming-pool chemicals that day and for several days thereafter. This image reminds me of another (scroll down to the 3rd pic).

Frances has taught me, among other things, that one should never squash a roach with one's shoe because the residual gore can contain eggs which might drop off and later hatch, possibly in one's residence.

A very long flip-flop scrubbing scene ensued after I first received this advice.