Kids and Public Restrooms, Part 2: Porta Potties
Ok, this is a follow-up to my previous excursion with Grace and public restrooms if you want to remind yourself what happened.
We were at an opening dinner for a new local food share co-op at Trillium Haven Farm when all of the sudden Grace runs to the common area, dancing up and down, saying, "I have to go potty!" Everyone is laughing. The only one available is a porta potty about 500 feet down the way. So, we fly over there I let her go in, and she starts taking about all of the "weird" things in there. A line starts forming behind me as I'm waiting, and thankfully I didn't tell her to lock the door, so I could open it myself. She starts saying, "Daddy this toilet doesn't flush, and what is this weird thing?" So I open the door, and she's flipping up and down in her hand, this:
Yup. That's right, a urinal cake, covered in pee. She's tossing it up and down like a coin saying it smells weird. Of course, I'm totally grossed out, and thankfully we had some hand sanitizer. So, if you have kids, or will someday, here is lesson number two with public restrooms, and in this case, porta potties:
Please educate your children not to touch anything AND about urinal cakes.
Ok, I'm done...I'm going to go wet my pants now.
I thought they were called urinal mints... But that brings up a whole new set of gross images.
Posted by: Heath | May 18, 2008 at 09:32 PM
oh, that's no biggie. pee is sterile.
Posted by: chris o | May 19, 2008 at 01:32 AM
Chris,
Okay, then I can pee on your hand and you won't think anything of it. I'll file that away for future reference!
And Heath, thank God I didn't say the word mint. I talked about them being fresh but thankfully didn't make that connection, 'cause I know Grace would have "experimented." :)
Posted by: Mike | May 19, 2008 at 08:45 AM
Chris said it was sterile, not that it wasn't gross.
And he is right... urine contains no germs, but once out of the body it does present a great petri dish.
Posted by: Heath | May 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Mike, you don't think calling them "cakes" would be more likely to cause the "experimentation" that you are talking about? Why, they are even pink... maybe strawberry flavored! :)
Posted by: Heath | May 19, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Dude,
You need to keep this stuff. Someday it will make a great book. Hilarious. Too funny.
Posted by: Joe Martino | May 20, 2008 at 09:10 AM