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A Woman's Visit to the Public Restroom


The author is unknown, but I would say that it had to be written by a woman! No one else could describe the experience with such accuracy!

When you have to visit a public bathroom, 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 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 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 would 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. " Some one's in here! " 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, 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 that sprays 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're exhausted. 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, 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, plunk 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 restroom. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?"

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!













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8 comments:

LJP said...

Yikes! It makes you want to avoid public toilets altogether!

Anonymous said...

That was just too funny. Mainly because you can picture the whole thing happening.

Best wishes

Anonymous said...

Great post, very funny. I have had some of this happen to me before but not all of it at once! Thank would be too awful! Thanks for the laugh.

Love and Blessings,
AngelBaby

Karen and Gerard said...

This is hilarious but so true! My husband had a bad experience in one of the men's restrooms at the Cleveland Zoo this summer. As he was in the process of going, the toilet overflowed! It got his pants wet because he was still going and couldn't just quit!

Anonymous said...

Hello and I must say that I've seen this situation too many times in my life - regardless where you live or travel, "movie is the same" :-).
Greetings from Croatia

Photography By Terri Harper said...

rtcorzHysterical! This post should win a prize!!! I've experienced just about every thing in here, thank goodness not all at the same visit!

the fat girl said...

wow! really funny story, but the sad part is that a variant of this happened to me...i won't talk about that though

a true short story about men and the bathroom: my boyfriend was taking me home from a date when he decided that he needed to use the facilities at a nearby fast-food restaurant. i guess he really needed to go because he kept the car running. i could still see the clock display on the radio and it read 9:57. at exactly 9:58, out he walked. ONE MINUTE?!? seemingly impossible, but true...

Unknown said...

Hi Paula !!
That was one great read. Way too funny.

Girish

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