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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Traveling on a holiday and my husband, the hero!

Traveling home from St. Louis was crazy. It took us 9 hours to make a trip that is normally 6 hours. The extra time was NOT taken up by kid trips, but by crazy amounts of traffic and construction backups. The way there on Thanksgiving day took 7 hours. We lost an hour at the beginning of the trip to stopping at a toll booth - traffic was basically at a standstill. We lost an hour on the way home to the same toll booth, but it was near the end of the trip. We lost another hour to a construction merge. The other hour was lost (I think) to the lines at all bathroom stops.

At one such bathroom stop, the bathrooms had clearly not been serviced for awhile and two of the four stalls in the ladies' room was out of toilet paper. As I finished, the third was running out, but many of the women were holding new rolls to restock the various stalls. As Rose and I got outside, Glenn and Ivy were standing there waiting for us. Glenn asked if I was a beneficiary of his largesse and I was confused. Apparently, one woman had asked him if the mens' room had extra toilet paper, so he went back into the bathroom to check. He asked and one man chuckled that there was barely none in his stall and the other man handed out a wad of paper. Glenn passed the paper on to the women and saw the door marked "Attendants Only". Assuming the door was locked, he tried the door and the handle didn't turn. However, he was able to push on the door and it opened. Grabbing several rolls of paper, he passed them out to both the women and the men (giving less to the men). I had heard one woman saying that it was "like Christmas", which Glenn found very amusing since he was wearing a red shirt. So many women were happy about having toilet paper to use, it made me feel very proud that my husband had caused so much joy for so many other women - especially since my stall had enough.

3 Comments:

  • At 10:29 PM, Blogger Glenn said…

    ...it made me feel very proud that my husband had caused so much joy for so many other women...

    Damn straight. That's me, bringing joy to women. **insert lascivious eyebrow waggle here**

     
  • At 11:29 PM, Blogger Eric The Read said…

    Yeah, but you should avoid such pleasure occuring in public bathrooms.

     
  • At 7:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Go Glenn, I bet it would have been hours before anyone else tried that door. (If ever)

     

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