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Mam
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This reminds me of a story I heard years ago about a party where one guest politely asked if the host could direct her to the bathroom. She followed the directions, opened the door, only to discover that it was exactly that ........ a bathroom!! Bath, basin and not a lavvy in sight. Too embarrassed to go back and say that she actually needed to use the lavatory, she decided that to save face she would ahem :blush: use the basin. She managed to perch reasonably comfortably upon said basin and was feeling quite pleased with herself when there was an almighty crash as the basin came off the wall and deposited her (knickers around ankles) and itself upon the floor. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall as she talked herself out of that one.:mysmilie_466:
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Yorko you are so not alone, unless we really all are miserable cows?!! This will be the 3rd year on the trot (keeping up with the toilet theme!!) I've conveniently missed our teams 'do', and even though it's free for us, I can't abide an evening playing nice with my colleagues, in my own time! So I'm off to Champneys with my sisters and niece. And I've never been to my company's dinner and dance, again doesn't cost anything, night in a hotel, 3-course meal etc, and when I say I don't want to spend the weekend with you lot, they don't even get offended, they think I'm joking! And, surprisingly, I have actually stayed in a hotel (should that be an hotel?) before *and* had a 3-course meal! I don't have a downstairs loo though, and guests coats go on the bottom of the bannisters over the top of mine.
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Capirossi
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Again, I totally agree!!! I never so the xmas doo's (or any others come to that) and am trying desperately to get out of my new company's one! They are vaguely aware it's hubby 40th around that time so I may milk that one
From mobile, please excuse any silly errors!!
I know it as a RestRoom and Bathroom and never refer to it as a sssh: toilet. Two things on my MustBe list: 1) toilet paper rolls away from the wall and 2) the lid is Down when not in use. As I'm on my ownsome, it's a HabitOfALifetime that I cannot break.
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Yes I do toilet paper away from rolls as well. Not bothered about the lid
definitely - me too on those things. i've had many arguments...er....discussions over the loo roll thing. i remember oprah doing a show about it and apparently it's even caused divorce. lol!
as for the works do's. retired a year now but i'm another party pooper. i did go years ago but it was never particularly enjoyable. after the initial argument about where it should be, the mass produced 'xmas dinners' were a total rip off, then when i became veggie 25 years ago, almost impossible. if wine was included there were always arguments - i used to say we needed measuring cylinders, not glasses. nobody wanted to sit next to the consultant who was forced to make small talk with the plebs when day to day he ignored us. it was always a huge work up to get the money in and the bill straight and no-one ever organised it more than once.
what used to upset me though was when i said no when they started taking names, i was always told 'oh why not, don't be such a misery!' almost everyone put their names down BUT by the time it happened, half of them had pulled out - why? something else cropped up. now i don't buy that - the works do would only have got the heave-ho if it wasn't the better offer. at least if i put my name down for something i do it, not back out fast if something more exciting comes along. if that makes me a misery, so be it.
Janie, I remember that Oprah show! She was surprised to learn that people stole handbags from the hook on the back of the 'restroom door.' She always hung her bag up there. About the Company do's, it was always HR/Personnel who organised them, so that was me! Had the Christmas do on a Saturday night and two days later, booking the hall and caterers for NextChristmas. Loved ordering the RetirementCakes for people as it was personally decorated ie: hobbies /pets and well-received.
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My nan used to have a outside loo, you could always tell when it was payday as the newspaper in strips that were on a hook to be used were replaced with that Bloody awfull shiny toilet roll paper that used to scratch you when you tried to use it. Didn't know which was worse!
Leighton Orient
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Izal?!!! That reminds me of primary school!
Of course toilet roll should be over to the front, Why?? Just because it should.
People laugh at me because I stack tins neatly in the cupboard, labels forward, big at the back smaller to the front.
OCD? Makes perfect sense doesnt it, see everything clearly with no shuffling about (sad cow)
People laugh at me because I stack tins neatly in the cupboard, labels forward, big at the back smaller to the front.
OCD? Makes perfect sense doesnt it, see everything clearly with no shuffling about (sad cow)
i don't know about anyone else but it always seems to be me who has to put the loo roll on in other people's houses. lol! some of the 'over the back' people even moan then. one of my friends is left handed and she claims lefties have to have it that way. i don't get why. lol!
blimey - you don't get that in the nhs!
Yorko you arent alone! Cant stand when its back to front!!
Have to share a funny toilet story. Many years ago my family went to visit my gran for the summer. She lived in a grand old house and was a terrible snob from a generation that believed that children should be seen and not heard so when my brother had a "lavatory" accident she wouldnt listen and chased him away. He had nobody else to turn to but me his little sister. Well i discovered that he had been doing number 2 and decided to have a sit down boys pee but he managed to aim right between the rim of toilet and the wooden seat nicely hitting every tile in between the toilet and the door, including the door. Snob she may have been but she certainly wasnt into her double quilted and we had to clean the flaming mess with that waxy toilet paper that comes in individual sheets. Its not very absorbent!!!
Have to share a funny toilet story. Many years ago my family went to visit my gran for the summer. She lived in a grand old house and was a terrible snob from a generation that believed that children should be seen and not heard so when my brother had a "lavatory" accident she wouldnt listen and chased him away. He had nobody else to turn to but me his little sister. Well i discovered that he had been doing number 2 and decided to have a sit down boys pee but he managed to aim right between the rim of toilet and the wooden seat nicely hitting every tile in between the toilet and the door, including the door. Snob she may have been but she certainly wasnt into her double quilted and we had to clean the flaming mess with that waxy toilet paper that comes in individual sheets. Its not very absorbent!!!
I change them round wherever I go. Whenever I get (very) occasional visits from family (Id rather visit then be the visitee) they turn them the wrong way (boy we know how to live it up). I get a bit confused though when using public toilets and they come out sideways:thinking:
those sideways ones are awful - you can never find the end and when you do they won't pull. lol
i'd rather visit than be visited too. i don't know if it's because my parents hated visitors or if it's in the genes.
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SparklyBarbs
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The woman from Bethlehem Lights just called it the "powder room" so we're all wrong :rock:
Loveinamist
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Funny posts, love the Powder Room, think I'll use that old glamour term in work next week!
Yorko, you mean not everyone stacks their tins that way? It's a-given in SnarlyWorld. Bilingual tins/packs with English forward-facing. Spices in alpha-order. Ex used to hang bath towels label-side-out so he could hear me tut-and-sigh-in-exasperation at his little joke. 'Dodo' is how I refer to him now. Ain't we funny with our LittleFoibles?
