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KimR.
01-16-2012, 07:26 AM
You’ve probably seen this at least once before … but it’s still so funny … and true! :D:D


When you have to visit a public toilet, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the cubicle doors.

Every cubicle is occupied.

Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the cubicle. 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 Mum, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your bag on the door hook, if there was one, so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on theFLOOR!) down with your pants and assume ' The Stance.

In this position, your aging, toneless, thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but having not taken time to wipe the seat or to lay toilet paper on it, 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, 'Dear, 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 bag (the bag around your neck, that now you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That would have to do, so 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 bag, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest and you and your bag 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, while losing your footing altogether and sliding 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, because 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 and spraying a fine mist of water that covers your bum and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force and 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're exhausted. You try to wipe with a sweet wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.

You can't figure out how to operate the taps with the automatic sensors, so 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, plonk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, 'Here, you just might need this.’

As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used and left the men's toilet. Annoyed, he asks, 'What took you so long and why is your bag hanging around your neck?

This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with any public toilets. It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers that other commonly asked question about why women go to the toilets in pairs. It's so the other girl can hold the door, hang onto your bag and hand you Kleenex under the door.

This HAD to be written by a woman! No one else could describe it so accurately!

Becky
01-16-2012, 09:44 AM
OMG! I was chuckling the entire time I read this. How true!!!! I even carry some of those little seat covers in my purse but never think to get them out. Thanks for sharing this!

Traci
01-16-2012, 09:57 AM
Oh, dear! My radiator is leaking! :D This is so stinkin' true! And Becky....I also carry those little seat covers in my purse. One of us should be worried....thinking alike!

Grace
01-16-2012, 10:48 AM
LOL--Too funny! I'm the one with the tissue in my handbag! :D
I have the little seat covers in my travel bag.

Catherine
01-16-2012, 03:55 PM
LOL - that's so true, so funny! Yep, keep tissues in my bag for events like that, but when you reach for one in an emergency situation - they're gone - used by grandchildren with dirty faces, daughters with runny eyes or hubby's with sneezes while he's driving the car...

Oh, men have it easy don't they!

Miss Pepper
01-16-2012, 07:30 PM
OMG! Too funny, I can so relate to this... :)

robyn
01-16-2012, 10:51 PM
I thought I had already replied to this. Must be gremlins!

So funny Kim; it's made my day - I've laughed until I've cried!

Traci
01-17-2012, 10:55 PM
LOL Oh, men have it easy don't they!
They certainly do....and then they have the brass to ask what took us so long when we go to the ladies'......:rolleyes:

landorasue
01-18-2012, 08:28 PM
How funny! LOL I always keep tissues in my bag, too. And I've be known to hang my bag around my neck, too. Have you ever had a _ _ _ pon you're getting ready to use, fall on the floor and roll into the next stall beyond reach? Yep. Done that, too.

Andrea
01-18-2012, 08:46 PM
Way too funny Kim.... Always carry tissue/paper towels of some sorts with me!

landorasue
01-18-2012, 09:25 PM
We also carry a roll of TP in the car.

Diane
01-19-2012, 11:03 AM
We also carry a roll of TP in the car.

Oh, Lanasue, how do you 'nonchalontly' sneak a big roll into the stall with you???:D

Too funny, Kim; but sadly, so true!!:rolleyes:

landorasue
01-19-2012, 03:23 PM
Diane, to be truthful, I don't carry the TP into a store. But, if we were at a rest stop or someplace similar and I noticed no TP, I'd just go to the car and tear off some or carry the roll right in. It's also great if you would have to stop along the road! Wyoming has a LOT of wide open spaces!

Traci
01-19-2012, 08:21 PM
Diane, to be truthful, I don't carry the TP into a store. But, if we were at a rest stop or someplace similar and I noticed no TP, I'd just go to the car and tear off some or carry the roll right in. It's also great if you would have to stop along the road! Wyoming has a LOT of wide open spaces!
You are so right, LanaSue! I carry a roll in the truck with me...and have done since forever. WY isn't the only place with lotsa wide open spaces! :D

sandy
01-19-2012, 09:25 PM
I am laughing my _ _ _ off! Thanks for the laugh Kim!!!

sandy
01-19-2012, 09:26 PM
How funny! LOL I always keep tissues in my bag, too. And I've be known to hang my bag around my neck, too. Have you ever had a _ _ _ pon you're getting ready to use, fall on the floor and roll into the next stall beyond reach? Yep. Done that, too.


hahahahaha! ROFL!!!

Traci
01-19-2012, 09:45 PM
Yes, I have been known to hang my bag around my neck....my late MIL used to roll up the cuffs of her slacks to keep them from dragging on the floor. She couldn't stand the thought of her slacks touching those *icky* floors! :D And don't forget....flush with your foot! laughter1