I’ve Shamed Women Everywhere.
When the kids and I get home everyday, it’s a race to the bathroom. I am NOT EVEN LYING. NikkiZ usually runs to LilZ’s bathroom to pee. That leaves LilZ and I racing to the bathroom in my bedroom. Sometimes I trip him as he is running down the hall, other times he pushes me to the ground on the turn into the bedroom. Either way – no matter how it unfolds – there is one person left doing the I Have To Pee dance in the kitchen while the others do their thing.
I have NO idea why none of us just go to the bathroom where we were BEFORE the trip home. It’s some sort of weird adaptive behavior we’ve developed to entertain ourselves. At least, that’s the best I can figure.
Yesterday I had about 90 things to do when I got home. As I peed I realized that my emminent use of the toilet paper was going to finish off the roll. Now, I usually keep a close enough eye on the toilet paper status in the bathrooms that there is always backup waiting. But, when I finished my bidness I realized that there were no backup rolls under the sink. My use actually took the last of the toilet paper in the entire bathroom.
Now, I bitch incessantly about anyone else finishing the roll and not replacing it with one from under the sink. I ALWAYS replace it. But that’s usually when it only requires getting the spare roll out from under the sink…three inches away. I learned yesterday that I do NOT care enough to actually go to the laundry room to grab another pack of toilet paper for under the sink.
I actually left the bathroom with NO toilet paper! I’m so mean! I think part of me just assumed that I’d be the next one to need toilet paper and I’d just grab a pack the next time I needed to go. At least that was my excuse. But when I went to give the kids their baths later? There was another pack (on the floor, of course) of toilet paper already delivered to the bathroom.
I mean – using the last of the toilet paper is the stereotypical complaint Moms and Wives have had for generations! And here I go and do what we’ve all bitched about at one time or another. This makes me lose my Mom card, doesn’t it? Next thing you know I’ll be leaving the toilet seat up or my underwear on the floor NEXT to the hamper instead of INSIDE of it. It’s all downhill from here.
I thought it was leaving the seat up we were supposed to complain about incessantly which, honestly, I don’t even care about.
I do, however, feel very strongly about leaving the bathroom without replacing the t.p. Which is … um … not to say that I haven’t done it. Once. Or several times.
hee. I am so that woman. In our house, it’s my DH that hates that I leave the paper off the roll!
I have also been occasionally been guilty of the crime of putting the full roll atop the empty one.
::running away to hide in shame::
I guess I should hang my head in shame too. It is an ongoing battle in my house as to who is to blame.
If it makes you feel better, I have been known to have to run out of the bathroom with my pants down in search of t.p. because “I” forgot to replace the last roll.
You’ve totally lost the Mom/wife card when you find yourself smelling a shirt to see if it’s clean enough to wear that day.
Most guys have done this at least once. I’ve never known a woman who has (or rather, will admit it).
Be glad that you didn’t go again later and realize that there was still no toilet paper…..that sucks.
People around my place seem to replace the empty roll with a new one from the cupboard (that is right there). The empty roll usually ends up on the bathroom floor and seems to stay there for quite a while.
That was mean but I know that feeling – i swear my OH can’t find the new toilet rolls!!! he puts them in the cupboard when we get back from the supermarket but i have to put a new one out even if he finishes the roll!!!
Whenever we come home from being out, as soon as i see our letterbox i need to pee! It’s weird and a great conversation starter lol