How the Men's Room at Mullen Lowe L.A. Became a Reddit Sensation

Started with call for decorating suggestions

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Mullen Lowe L.A.'s office manager just needed some advice on how to spruce up the agency's men's room for a client visit. She had no idea she was creating an Internet sensation that would reach the front page of Reddit.

"I have a most important question," Paige Arrington, also the agency's chief recruiter, wrote in a staff email. "I place an orchid in the women's restroom when clients visit. What is appropriate for the men's room?"

She received more than 50 suggestions from the staff including a shark tank, a fish tank in the toilets and a target in the urinals.

"The two main comments were 'We will stand for nothing less than an attendant,' and 'Guys, I know she's getting us a shark tank,'" Arrington told Adweek. 

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