In her bathroom, she has a shelf a few feet above the toilet. She changes out the decor on it to match the season/holiday. (More things that are passed down to me via the gene pool.) So for Christmas, she had a cut glass vase filled with gold glass Christmas balls. Well, one day she was cleaning or walking by or whatever and she accidentally knocked the vase off the shelf. This is the vase "after."
Amazingly enough - it was the least of her worries. The toilet below took the brunt of the mishap. Here's her sign to keep people away from using it. (If you can't read it, it says "Don't even think about using this!")
Why, you ask? Keep scrolling.
Yep! The vase shattered the porcelain! The stuff in the water isn't what you think. It's actually the gold paint from the Christmas balls that were in the vase. Apparently the paint comes off when it gets wet.
So Mom bemoaned the fact that she had to go toilet shopping 2 days before Christmas. I (in all my annoying wisdom) reminded her of what she said to me the last time I had to spend money on a home repair: "Be thankful you have the money to fix it." She found it about as amusing as I did when she used the line on me.
3 comments:
Bekah, nobody likes it when you feed their words back to them. Especially a mom. ;o)
And yet another reason I'm content to stay in military housing instead of buying...the military fixes everything, even items destroyed, er, damaged by little boys and big dogs.
Skyepuppy - If Mom loved Little House like Lori and I do, I'd have quoted one of the lines when this very thing happened to Charles Ingalls and he said "Why does everyone keep reminding me of what I always say?" But she wouldn't have gotten it. (And Lori - don't you dare ask me what episode that came from. I can't think of the name of it.)
Amy - I think Mom would have happily moved into military housing alongside you!
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