{"id":5010,"date":"2009-01-09T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=5010","title":{"rendered":"Of Bathrooms and Little Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Of Bathrooms and Little Boys<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/pottyyeah1231482271.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/pottyyeah1231482271.jpg\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Well, here I am again, after quite an absence.  And, no, I&#8217;m not talking about a blog absence but an absence from visiting public bathrooms with a little bathroom buddy.  Has it really been four years?  Wow.  Anyway, it seems that my youngest has rapidly and nearly painlessly (finally, thank you) become potty trained.  Which means that I&#8217;m now getting the fun of taking him to public bathrooms all over the place.  Part of me is thrilled that we&#8217;re in the bathroom because he actually wants to use it, but then I remember that I have a little boy in tow and realize that, to him, <b>bathrooms=fun<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Of all of my adventures with little boys in public bathrooms this has to be the absolute craziest.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened.<\/p>\n<p>At church on Sunday, I decided to ditch the last stanza of the last hymn so that I could get my little boy to the bathroom before what I was sure was an impending accident.  I took him with me to the ladies&#8217; room.  After he was finished using the bathroom I instructed him to go wash his hands.  <\/p>\n<p>He did wash his hands&#8230;but that is not all.  Just washing his hands and leaving would have been normal and, of course, we don&#8217;t do normal.  Out-of-left-field is our specialty.  <\/p>\n<p>Guess what he did next INSTEAD of leaving?  He picked up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwareworld.com\/Rubber-Door-Stop-pIRUAE1.aspx\">rubber door stop<\/a> and, I suppose, after deciding that it looked like an excellent projectile, lobbed it over the stall door <b>into a toilet that someone was actually sitting on<\/b>.  <\/p>\n<p>I mean, what are the odds.  Not only did he get it in there, it went in without so much as a splash.  If it were a dive in the Olympics it would have gotten 10s all around.  <\/p>\n<p>So, you know, thank goodness the person wasn&#8217;t hurt.  Thank goodness that she has a sense of humor.  And, thank goodness that the person was me instead of some innocent bystander.  If it had not been me, I think I would have actually died from embarrassment, finally. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Bathrooms and Little Boys Well, here I am again, after quite an absence. And, no, I&#8217;m not talking about a blog absence but an absence from visiting public bathrooms with a little bathroom buddy. Has it really been four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=5010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}