I was enjoying dinner with my partner this evening when I got an alert on my phone: “I would like to report that the girls restroom near [room/hall] is known as the vaping bathroom and there are an average of 10-15 girls vaping and doing other things that aren’t okay in the big stall.”

Did I mention that I received this alert at 6:45pm on a Friday night?

Vaping in the girls room is the new “smoking in the boys room” – only now the nicotine delivery system is bigger, better, faster, stronger. And they look (and taste) so cute!

The number of disposable vaping devices that we find in the bathrooms on the rise again – and the kids are sharing the devices with people they don’t know. Last year my team and I shut down a frequently traveled boys bathroom because we found that students were hiding Flum Floats in the toilet cover dispensers for communal use. I know – that’s gross. But it continues to happen, and now the trend has crossed the very blurry gender line to the girls restroom, only the devices are cuter and less minty: Flum Pebbles are a hit right now.

If this is your first foray into the world of nicotine vaping devices, the items I noted above allow for a TON of puffs from one disposable device. The Flum Pebbles advertise that they are good for 6,000 puffs from one item. It’s the equivalent of a carton of cigarettes with no smoke, no flame needed.

I don’t know how we will go about solving the issue yet. BUT I do know that the bathroom will get a LOT of attention from our female security and administrative staff in the coming weeks and months!