This is a column all about makeup and shoes.

Are the boys gone???

Good, now we can continue.

Every girl knows it’s physically impossible to go to a public bathroom alone. This is why the buddy system comes in handy. It’s always nice to have someone help you fight off the unwanted whistles and cat calls approaching while you just want to “use” the bathroom.

Yes, I said “use.” Am I being serious though?

Here are some of the REAL reasons girls need a friend to go to the bathroom with them.

Do you really think both of us need to use the bathroom? I meeeeann that could be the case, but 99.9 percent of the time, we’re about to go flick it up in the mirrors. This mainly happens when our Snapchat stories are dry. We need to spice it up somehow. A hundred and five pictures later, we now have a cute Snapchat story.

Maybe we desperately need to talk to someone, but our teachers have said, “Ladies, be quiet” so many times that the words have lost all meaning. So the bathroom is a safe haven where we can discuss what needs to be discussed. But sometimes there are other people in the bathroom, so those bathroom trips may or may not turn into taking a few laps around the building before entering the classroom again depending on how long our “tea time” is.

Is it time to apply gloss? Well, that calls for bathroom time! Lip gloss is a girl’s best friend. It can transform the bummiest outfit into the cutest thing ever. It’s a little something I like to call make or break. Now, of course, we could always make life easier and apply in class, but if there’s an excuse to leave, we’re taking it!

Having a male teacher makes this process 100 times easier. They don’t really understand “that time of the month”, so seeing them freak out when you say that’s why you need to leave makes it funnier. They’ll let you do whatever because they just want you to stop talking about it. You could say you have to go to the mall because it’s “that time of the month,” and, for crying out loud, they’d let you! 

Whether you’re on your cycle or not, that’s definitely a way to finesse the bathroom. They don’t keep track–you can use that excuse whenever you need to. If they ask, you can say that your cycle synced to someone else’s which is how you can get your friend to come with you.

Having a teacher like Mrs. Confino makes the buddy system a little trickier because she knows the “bathroom trip” could range approximately anywhere from five to 15 minutes. But she’s she so awesome because she almost ALWAYS lets you go. Love you! (See what I did there? Flattery always works.)

Ladies, now that teachers may have caught on to our most frequently used excuses, we need to work together to make some more. And don’t forget to make at least one friend in each class for a fun bathroom trip.