This happened back when my Mom and Dad were dating. They couldn't afford to do too much as both families were poor, so the little places they went were fun and meant a lot. They'd gone to a play at the local school with another couple and Mom had excused herself to go to the ladies room.
Off she went, not actually knowing where it was, but figuring it'd be easy enough to find. She went in, thought that some things were different in there than most she'd seen - but what did she know? She'd grown up, like Dad, with an outhouse. Modern stuff, she thought.
When she came out, she found Dad and was all excited over the new things she'd discovered in the ladies room. She told him about the modern sinks; sinks she'd never seen the likes of. He asked her what she meant and she proceeded to tell him all about the new sinks in there, the ones that were always running, lower than the usual sink and she proudly told him she'd washed her hands very carefully in one of them. Dad thought for a minute and then asked her where she'd gone. She took him to the door, telling him he couldn't go in as he wasn't a woman.
He looked in anyways and started laughing hysterically. My Mom, with her new sink, had washed her hands in the urinal. She'd been in the mens room. True story, from my Mom and Dad. They got married when WWII began as he enlisted and they didn't want to wait. She was only 18 and he, 21, so after their wedding off he went to the war. Neither one ever forgot the urinal and I grew up hearing all about it, from them both -- always with a good laugh.
mn - 2007
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Good Morning, Charles - all. I don't really want to be up yet, but I woke up with a cat on my pillow meanig I didn't have a pillow so here I am. Yep, Mom was so shocked and laughing like heck when Dad told her what it was she washed her hands in.
Charles - Shameless plug here -LOVE your continuing story, The Plan, if anyone hasn't read it - get over there and read!
I enjoyed reading this and giggled the entire way through. Thank you for a great start to my gather morning!
My first, yes there's more than one, was in Colorado. We stopped, just outside Littleton, for lunch. I had to go and was in a rush. This rustic resturant thought it was cute to have some creative logos on the doors of the restrooms, I didn't. The good news is the room was empty, and I did my duty without incident.
The other incident will be best left for the adult section of gather.
Mom - she had a laugh that could make you laugh at yourself, whether or not you wanted to. She passed that onto our son who's got so much of her in him it's great.
Eddie - what'd you do? LOL
Rob - maybe she did come across the new-kinda drinking fountain, never asked that one! LOL
Mugg - She washed her hands with """something'""!!!! LOL I like the comments just as much as the urinal because you all come up with some REALLY interesting things to add on, that I don't know... maybe they happened too? LOL