Scales in Public Restrooms and the Function of Eating Disorders
I had an interesting experience today. I went with my boss to her business coach meeting. I've been to his office once before, so I was vaguely familiar with where the necessities are. By necessities I mean bathrooms. I knew where the bathrooms were. Being someone who drinks tons of fluids every day, and who has an issue with her bladder (don't get grossed out, its just a fact of my physiology) I excused myself before the meeting to use the toilet. The building his office is in houses several other small to medium businesses, and they share a public bathroom. Its the kind you find in malls across America, except maybe two to ten billion times cleaner. Today, for whatever reason, laying innocuously on the floor at the farthest end in front of the handicap stall, was a scale. I think for most people they'd see it and think, "Why is there a scale in a public restroom?" Which is actually pretty much exactly what my boss said when ...