The Key

At the office, we have a phantom pooper. So in all of their wisdom, the "powers that be" decided that in order to catch the fiend, we needed to lock the restroom. This was done with flamboyance and flair. The key is kept by one of our sales people and is attached to a 3 foot long chain. I made some noise about it being stupid and embarrassing to now have to ask to use the potty. Some other co-workers found it as irritating. So the first morning, I used the potty (with permission of course) and forgot to lock up. My co-worker arrives and begins to have his fun.
"You didn't lock the bathroom after you used it." He accused me with glee in his voice. You see, I had an inkling that he had something to do with this key situation because he makes the biggest deal about un-flushed toilets. Plus he spent the previous evening bragging about it. I Assume he probably had been up all night like a kid on Christmas Eve anticipating the catch of his first perp.
"Who cares?" I muttered. This really set him off, I watched as his glee turned to slight annoyance.
"What?!"
"I said, who cares. Adults asking permission to use the restroom at the office is stupid."
"Well," he huffed as his slight annoyance turned to anger "I don't think that you see the seriousness of the situation. Why do you have that attitude?" Then he said something that made me so mad. He said, "You wouldn't talk to Kevin like that." He really was equating himself with the owner of the company. I couldn't believe it.
"No. I wouldn't" I said flatly making it clear that I knew that he wasn't the boss. "See, I use the bathroom frequently and frankly I find it humiliating that I have to ask if I can potty and then carry a key on a three foot chain across the building so everyone can see that I am going to pee. I think that this is a costly solution to the problem that some workers are too lazy to flush and others of us are more concerned about pointing fingers than just hitting that little handle ourselves. Besides, unless someone is keeping a written log of who goes in and when, this doesn't work"
That was the end of the conversation.
I noticed that he stopped bragging about his key system after our conversation. A few days later, someone decided it would be funny to attach a 2 foot Styrofoam tag to the key that read "Restroom Key". I openly expressed that it was distasteful. It was removed shortly thereafter.
What is the point?
Well, I went to the potty today and the person before me didn't flush. So I asked the salesperson that "holds" the key if he knew who was in the bathroom before me. And guess what? He did not.