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what kind of crap is this?
Posted by: wickedwitch | May 22, 2007 at 08:14 AM
"Left in the lurch" isn't quite the euphemism I would use.
"Up sh!t creek without a handle" would be more like it.
Posted by: Bãrön vønKlýff | May 22, 2007 at 08:22 AM
"If they see someone in street clothes fixing a bathroom on the weekend, there's a problem."
Monday through Friday, though....that's ok. Those are our management interns.
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2007 at 08:22 AM
Pssst!
The interns are the ones taking the parts so they have something to show that they were productive, showed initiative and were able to be better than the schmucks who didn't manage to have the contacts to swing an internship.
Posted by: Heinrich the Lab Rat | May 22, 2007 at 08:32 AM
I cannot think of a more dastardly deed than pilfering the pottie plumbing.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | May 22, 2007 at 08:33 AM
Death by swirlie to the lot of them!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | May 22, 2007 at 08:38 AM
So what's the big deal?? People don't flush anyways...have you seen some of those public bathrooms??? EWW
Posted by: Siouxie | May 22, 2007 at 08:39 AM
Siouxie,
I think that is why some bathrrom have those automatic flusher "thingy" (That is a technical term we physics people use a lot as in, "What happens if we turn on the nuclear accelerator thingy while Bob is gone?")
I think it detects your butt moving off of the seat and flushes.
Posted by: Mikey123 | May 22, 2007 at 09:09 AM
[O/T] (Today in Northern Illinois...)
Here we come
Crawling up your tree
We get the funniest looks from
Everyone we see
Hey, Hey, we're cicadas!
In biblical proportions arrive
We're dodging birds and squirrels
And trying hard to stay alive
Anytime
Or anywhere
You'll be walking your dog and
We're flying in your hair!
Hey, Hey, we're cicadas!
We've had a seventeen year nap
And now we're back to tell you
You'd better wear a baseball cap
Just Mother Nature
Showing us her thing
Emerge, mate, and lay eggs now
Just wait until you hear us sing!
Hey, Hey, we're cicadas!
So laugh and take it all in stride
We'll be gone before you know it
So suck it up, enjoy the ride!
(Can't blog from work so just thought I'd share our Illinois joy with you today. Carry on.)
[end O/T]
Posted by: Cat R. | May 22, 2007 at 09:18 AM
often leaving restroom users in the lurch when they reach for that flush handle or button.
Now really, if I get as far as reaching for the flush handle and nothing happens, it's kind of an "Oh, well' moment. Hardly being left in the lurch...
Posted by: the world has a fivver | May 22, 2007 at 09:27 AM
Mikey, those bathrooms are usually the ones I'll use.
Icky poo!
and LOL Cat...good one!!
Posted by: Siouxie | May 22, 2007 at 09:43 AM
Guess they'll have to go with the old cheap hotel trick and bolt everything down.
Posted by: Bethie | May 22, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Criminals with a heart:
Awwwww. At least they let the mommies go in peace.
Posted by: DeskDiva | May 22, 2007 at 10:31 AM
well they could go back to the old multi-stall outhouse versions they used to have. Very fragrant. But nothing worth stealing.
Posted by: mm | May 22, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Are they sure these disappearances couldn't be the result of spontaneous combustion? After all, this is in range of the Florida Weirdness Magnet, right?
Good one, Cat R. I caught the tune right away, which, no doubt, puts me in a very small age bracket. Oh, and thanks for the earworm.
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 22, 2007 at 11:53 AM
mm - Stalls? Stalls!?! Why, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper we had ta use the outhouse when we were visitin' my grandparents at the lake in the summer. It had two sittin'-holes and a bigger stand-up hole and there weren't no stall walls! Heck, the whole thing woulda been about as big as one and a half of these luxury condo stalls ya get these days. At night, we us wee ones couldn't go all the way to the outhouse we had a canopy (say it slowly) to go in and we had to empty it the next morning. The only thing to steal woulda been the TP and there wouldn't be much point in that 'cause there weren't nowhere else to use it!
(ISIANMTU)
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 22, 2007 at 12:04 PM
ScottMGS - ISIANMTU - when I was a young 'un, at the amusement park near my grandparents, the public restroom was essentially a huge outhouse divided down the middle men to the right, women to the left. There were crude stalls roughed in for a little privacy, but that was it. All of the "seats" dropped into one huge communal hole, and the fragrance was...heady.
Posted by: mm | May 22, 2007 at 12:14 PM
I know *exactly* what you mean, mm. Exactly.
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 22, 2007 at 12:16 PM