12. The Discriminatory Mirror

I am strongly shortsighted, so I wear prescription eyeglasses.

Everyday, I feel this is important to check regularly the state of my teeth, moles, pimples, or simple how bad is my hair in the morning.
To this effect, I use the mirror in the bathroom, usually the only one I have always had, you know, the one most humans use, the one above the bathroom sink.

It was always already provided and I had no issues, until I moved to the worst designed/built apartment of my life. (And I have lived in countless homes in many continents).
The mirror is placed at 80cm from my face, and I can assure you that without my glasses, when I look at my reflection, my teeth look just one white block and the mole I have on my face is gone, and it is impossible to see any pimples. The sink is so deep that even if I move forward, it is still too far, and the position is not very confortable.

I have never thought about the ideal position and distance from the face for a mirror in a bathroom, but now I know that 80cm is way too far.

It is that far because on the same wall, there are the toilets and the sink. It is quite difficult to explain (especially since English is not my native language)...
In this building, the ledge or sill that is needed for the toilets' flush system to be encased, makes up for the entired length of the wall on which the sink is installed.
In the end, there is the depth of the ledge or rim and the depth of the sink, knowing that the mirror is directly fixed on the wall, with no cabinet behind, just the mirror.
The architect, among many huge obvious mistakes, did not think about this and had he given a couple of neurons to this, they might have concluded that a mirror cabinet would have shorten the distance between the face of a human and the mirror.