Overheard in Burbank November 15, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Seeing the World Through Astronomy , trackbackScene: Burbank Airport
Time: 8:30pm
Spacemom is in urgent need of a restroom. She finds a women’s room and walks in with 2 women following. She manages to get stuck with the handicap stall that is sans lock. Lovely. She steps out of the stall to hear one of the women sudden jump out of a stall
"It’s Broken! My toilet is broken!"
I peer in, looks good to me…
"It doesn’t have a flusher!"
Flusher? WTF?
The other woman also comes out " Mine doesn’t have one either!"
This is surreal, this isn’t true.
I speak up "these are automatically flushing toilets"
A VERY dirty look sent my way "Yeah!, How can these toilets flush without the flusher?"
I start to explain and then realize this is just not worth it. I take the stall she has just abandoned (without the flusher) and void. I get up, zip and button and Ah… the toilet flushes. Thanks to technology.
The stall next to mine flushes. The "no flusher" woman yells "HOW DID YOU GET IT TO FLUSH?"
Seriously
I
Can
NOT
Make
This
Up
Two women had never heard of automatically flushing toilets. Where have they been? Have they missed the technology boom north of them? Damn, I guess Figlet was right. It’s the Valley Girls.
Comments»
oh my, that’s hysterical. It’s the “HOW DID YOU GET IT TO FLUSH?” that totally makes the story.
That sais, I can never get those thing to flush. I’m invisible to the sensors. We have them at work and I have to jump up ad down and wave my arms to get them to flush. I don’t know.
Hey!!! Just stopping by to say hi. Rod took the kids off in the car to get them to sleep a little and I have a whole 18 minutes to myself. (Good god life has changed).
Miss you, sorry I’ve been off the computer lately.
Those flusher ladies kill me!
I can totally hear the voice of George Costanza’s mother in this scene “HOW DID YOU GET IT TO FLUSH?”.
Laughing quite hard,
Gretchen
No way. No. Way.
You have got to be kidding. Even my 4 year old knows what one is!