Oh my, I just about wet my pants reading this! Fair warning, girlfriends! LOL ♥ ferree
(anonymous)
When
you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you
smile politely and take your place, right?
Once
it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is
occupied.
Finally,
a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.
You
get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so
long you are about to wet your pants!
The
dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no
doubt) is handy, but empty.
You
would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't ---so
you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in
her grave if you put it on the Floor!), yank down your pants, and assume "
The Stance."
In
this position your aging, toneless (God I should have gone to the gym!) thigh
muscles begin to shake.
You'd
love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay
toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance".
To
take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be
the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's
voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have known
there was no toilet paper!"
Your
thighs shake more.
You
remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday---the one that's
still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have
to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That will have to
do.
You
crumple it in the puffiest way possible.
It's
still smaller than your thumbnail.
Someone
pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work.
The
door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest,
and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet.
"Occupied!"
you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled
tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down
directly onto the TOILET SEAT. It is wet of course.
You
bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact
with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU
never laid down toilet paper---not that there was any, even if you had taken
time to try.
You
know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew. You're certain her
bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear,
"You just don't know what kind of diseases you could get."
By
this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that
it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of
the bowl, spraying a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down
your legs and into your shoes.
The
flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the
empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.
At
this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet
seat.
You
try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket, and then slink out inconspicuously
to the sinks.
You
can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors--- you
wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women
still waiting.
You
are no longer able to smile politely to them.
A
kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper
trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it?)
You
yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her
warmly, "Here, you just might need this."
This
is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest? you've
GOT to be kidding!).
It
finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers
their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in
pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse, and hand
you Kleenex under the door!
I am laughing out loud! This is all too familiar!
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