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on May 23 2013 - 06:00 AM
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Just a regular ole’ white porcelain thing with germs just swarming in and around it. Lots and lots of germs. And come on, it's just a bathroom sink. Sure the automatic soap dispensers are pretty cool and so are the dryers that you slip your hands into like gloves. But, really, do we have to spend our time in here?
This is what I’ve said to myself some umpteen times in the past two weeks as our family has toured practically every public bathroom in Johnson County. Not on purpose, mind you.
Seems youngest is obsessed with bathrooms. Everywhere we go.
Now that he's totally potty-trained, he's got a new destination every time we leave the house.
When we go to a restaurant, our first five minutes are spent in the bathroom. Going potty, of course, then marvelling at the automatic flusher or the tiny button (full of germs) that you can push.
Then we go to our table and within a couple minutes find ourselves back with the porcelain. Standing at the toilet just one more time, then washing and rewashing our hands to this catchy little song he learned in preschool, something about 'washing in between and now we're clean, clean, clean." Nothing cuter than a 3 1/2 year old boy singing as loud as he can in a ladies' restroom as he rubs soap between his hands.
I'm telling you, this is our family's new crazy pastime.
I should become a connoisseur of public restrooms I'm in them so much. Like I could give them up to four plungers, instead of stars. Write a little column called, Potty Time or something corny like that.
Already I can tell you the toilet at AMC 30, (movie theatre in Olathe near 119th Street) rates way high in technology and cleanliness. I mean every gadget does everything for you. Just love it.
If we hadn't spent 70 darn dollars for the entire family to watch "How to Tame Your Dragon," hell, I could have spent hours in there. But I tried to limit our two trips in there to about five minutes a piece.
I figured that cost me about $10. Lovely.
And I've found some not so clean bathrooms.
We found one of those yesterday morning as we continued "Churchapoolza 2010," otherwise known as our family's search for a new church. It's prompted us to embark on a tour, going to all kinds from Catholic and Lutheran to Baptist and Bible and everything in between. It's what you get when a Catholic marries a Baptist.
Anyway, we continued the tour yesterday morning and as soon as we started singing the first song, guess what?
"Gotta go pee," youngest says a little too loudly. (Did we forget how to say potty? Or bathroom? Or, do we just like to say pee to embarrass our parents in church????)
Husband is convinced he doesn't really have to go, that he's just dying to see what this bathroom is like. So I hold off a while.
Until, he says "pee" a little louder than the first time. Then we go.
Let's just say I couldn't get out of there quick enough. Even my son noticed. Yet, he had to go back a couple more times. (Gotta love when a little boy yells "poop" in the middle of church service.)
For the record, the bathroom at last week's church was great. Even a urinal for the little guys.
Husband says the looks and feel of church bathrooms shouldn't be a factor in the church we join. But, seems to me if we're going to spend half our time in there, it should count a little bit, don't you think?
I am the porcelain tour with my youngest too, (he'll 4 the June). I find it so funny, b/c until he was completely potty trained you had to drag him to bathroom, now I have to drag him out them.I really think they just want to check out all the bathrooms! My daughter is almost 4, and I have to tell her before we leave the house to go potty, because public bathrooms are really gross. I will agree with you about AMC 30's bathroom, but haven't found many others that I like. The grocery store and McDonald's are the worst! And Wal-Mart. Target is okay.Hilarious! I secretly love a good, clean bathroom, especially with kids in tow. When mine were at that stage, I certainly steered toward the places with good bathrooms (like Nordstrom's at Oak Park Mall, even though we never buy something there.) Good luck with your Churchapalooza. You'll be flush with memories after this tour!I remember as a kid my mom forcing us to go in pretty much every bathroom - especially when on vacation - to "try". I blame this for my small bladder and unwillingness to "wait" that I have today. I do like a swanky outhouse.
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