My life as you've never seen it!

[la_rainette]

*tosses hair importantly* cos I have such an exciting life, really, that my lj friends dream about it.

When I am not busy saving the Pope with Husband and copperbadge , I bake madeleines and investigate crimes with the help of sir_gareth who happens to be my husband, but won't eat my madeleines.

Which means that either I am a bigamist, or I must have disposed of Husband somehow at some point, in which case Gareth is DAMN RIGHT not to eat my madeleines. :D

terrylj, I love you and that post made my day. And you guys should all go and friend terry, cos she's tremendous fun and has lovely kidlets, and knows 4 different words for southern walk, and writes Disworld fiction.

And while I'm at it, random thought of the day.

You know, the way you react to an unusual situation can be very revealing. I tend to not be very sure of myself, so whenever I see a word mispelled in actual print, even if I am sure that it is mispelled, I still check the dictionary, cos if it's printed, it's spelled right, and I automatically assume I might be wrong and feel the urge to check.

If perchance I take a wrong turn and go to the men's washrooms, one good look at the urinals makes me jump backwards and be gone, cos, hey, I must be wrong - and I don't need to check the dictionary to be sure of that.

Not so my friend Caroline, who upon seeing the urinals just thought, hum, strange, why urinals in the women's washrooms? Oh, wait, of course! FAMILY WASHROOMS! What a good idea, washrooms for the entire family! Yay!*

It took two flabbergasted and slightly shocked men to actually make her realize that she had picked the wrong door. And they? didn't say anything, just looked at her and retreated carefully and very, very slowly. Canadian men are so polite they'd rather pee against a maple tree than tell a lady she's picked the wrong toilets. It's a funny world.


*Caroline is, indeed, the mother of two HIGHLY ACTIVE and occasionally difficult boys. Family washrooms would make her squee with hapiness.

Comments

[exit-chrysalis.livejournal.com]

We have some family washrooms here. Not in large-washroom-for-dozens-of-people-form, more in one-stall+urinal-form, but they're quite nice if you have multiple children of both genders to be responsible for.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! I had no idea...

Yes, I agree, it's a very good concept, and now you mention that, I think I might have seen something like that, but the urinal was kid-sized if I remember well. I mean, it is still expected that the mum will take the little ones to the washroom.

[exit-chrysalis.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I don't know any mother who wouldn't take little kids with her to the washroom, and I don't know anyone who would object to their presence. We have a lot of tourists around here (I'm halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach) and so there's quite a variety in washrooms. I've seem some family ones with large urinals and some with kid-sized ones, and some with both.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*nods* Over here, what happens is that all the kids, regardless of the sex, go to the women's washroom with their mom. I have never seen family washrooms with a big urinal, cos I would have remembered, I think.

Actually, I would have vacated the place, thinking I had pushed the wrong door.

[wonapalei.livejournal.com]

I often wish I could just walk into the men's room, pee, and get the hell out instead of waiting in the gigantic queue that always forms outside the women's.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

You and so many other people. I don't dare do it, but Tadpole's Godmother does it all the time. She has very innocent but decided baby blue eyes and can stare down any guy if needed. Also, she has no hesitation to do it whatsoever. I think that's so great!

[wonapalei.livejournal.com]

HaHA! That's great! When I grow up, I want to have that kind of chutzpah.

[l33tminion]

It's not like anyone would object... Those that are really bothered would be too uncomfortable to call her on it. Of course, I'm sure it does make some people really uncomfortable. Especially since there is a double standard there... many women would have no problem with totally freaking out if a guy accidentally walked into the woman's restroom (perhaps even assuming that he did so intentionally), whereas men are expected to avoid embarrassing the woman by not pointing out her error.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Huh, you're quite right, actually. How interesting.

I'd love to see a scene in a movie where a woman goes into the men's, and all the men SCREAM! *g*

[l33tminion]

LOL

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

:D Glad I could improve your day. I guess you can tell that the madeleine recipe has been weighing on my mind ('cause wah, we Southerners are uncultured and Wal-Mart doesn't sell madeleine pans!). I have no idea where the rest of that came from. NaNoDreams.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D NaNoDreams! Wah, you're stuck with them for one whole month then. ;)

I'll have a look and see if I can find madeleine pans over here. The only place I've seen them yet is Williams-Sonoma, and they don't carry the silicon ones.