Ignorance, Bernie, and a Bathroom
- Margaret Anderle
- Oct 19, 2015
- 3 min read

Dear Person that Placed a Bernie Sanders Poster in the Urinal,
I have several questions for you, but first and foremost, why? Why, when you saw an 8x11 inch piece of paper with Bernie Sander's face that said "Not For Sale" did you find it necessary to take that piece of paper off the bulletin board where it hung, and throw it in the urinal of the men's restroom? I have a problem with this for many reasons.
1. I work at the cafe where you performed this indiscretion, and it is my job to clean the bathrooms. Did you think that I didn't have enough things to worry about at my job, you had to make it harder by further dirtying the mens restroom? Let me tell you, I clean this bathroom multiple times a week, and never have I thought to myself, wow I really wish there was a poster in the urinal that I get to clean up.
2. What motivated you, a grown person, to disrupt our community bulletin board with your ignorant and childish act. It's just a bulletin board in a local cafe, did you really have to exert your feigned political dominance by removing a harmless Bernie Sanders plug? Furthermore, it is not your place to take things off our bulletin board. Do you work here? Do you own this cafe? Do you have the authority to regulate our bulletin board? The answers to these questions (I'm asserting) are no.
3. Do you have some sort of impairment that requires you to take down all Bernie Sanders supporter's innocent posters? Do you have a lack of self restraint that caused you to balk at the photo of Bernie and feel the need to take it down immediately? Unless you have an acute condition that entails aversion to the visage of Bernie, I think its pretty safe to assume that you did this from your own clearly sheltered view of politics and society.
I will leave you with this. When you walk into a store, restaurant, cafe, etc., take a minute, and actually think about the people that work there. We're normal people, we have friends and families, and chances are, cleaning bathrooms are not the most enjoyable part of our day. When you removed a harmless Bernie poster in what is, by the way, a very liberal area, you weren't just disrespecting the integrity of our political system and free flow of ideas guaranteed by our government, but you were also disrespecting me, the girl that had to clean the bathroom whose urinal had been compromised by your devious act. If you were an adult, a teen, or really anyone cognizant enough to know who Bernie Sanders is and take down a poster of him, you should also be aware enough to realize that what you did is inappropriate, and I'd like to just take a moment here to emphasize how immature and ridiculous your action was.
Next time you come to my cafe, or any place of business, public place, etc., I encourage you to rethink your strategy of undermining Bernie. One poster in a urinal isn't stopping his campaign for president, so the only thing you're doing, is inconveniencing the person that has to clean up after you.
Sincerely,
The Girl Who Had to Throw that Poster Away
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