1) The heat is on. I officially turned on my heat Sunday night for the first time this fall. It's gotten cold here in Atlanta (and by cold I mean 40s and 50s), and I've been ffffreezing! I will now have to get a night job to pay my gas bill. Always wanted to be a stripper, so this works out.
2) Alabama won this weekend, 6-3, over the Tennessee Volunteers, again this week in the last seconds of the game with a field goal! The end of the game was awesome! The usual people were at the stadium, oh, you know, people like U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and ex-Bama boy and retired NFL player, Cornelius Bennett. Same old, same old crowd mix.
3) My cat's decided to go as a black cat for Halloween again this year. Thank goodness I didn't have to buy her a costume.
Ok, now for my quick vent session: Doors on women's restrooms.
Why in the world do most women's restroom door hangers install the doors where you push to get in the restroom and have to pull to get out? What kind of sense does that make? When you're ready to leave the restroom, your hands are clean (well, at least I can speak for mine), so why would you want to touch a door handle that you know probably isn't? Knowing that not all ladies are hand-washers in the restroom (and you know who you are, and we know who you are too, which is why I won't go near your dish at any pot-luck work lunch), door handles leading out of the ladies room are probably riddled with germs. However, I don't like to throw problems out without suggesting solutions, so I present the following:
Install the handle on the outside of the door to get in, and the push plate on the inside of the door so you don't have to use your hands to get out.
The simplicity just kills me.
You know, maybe I should go to market with a "cleanliness converter kit", selling the same exact door hardware that comes with the door, but changing up the directions of installation to what I've suggested above. Then I could go around to women's restroom installers everywhere touting the antimicrobial benefits (which is very trendy now) of MY converter kit, selling these kits like hotcakes! It's genius! Yes, yes...I could start a grass roots campaign for changing women's restroom doors everywhere, even get some sort of legislation passed for this, thereby creating a demand for my "cleanliness converter kit" and making millions! It's all about creating demand and having a product to supply. Billions of bathrooms everywhere will need a "cleanliness converter kit". I'll rule the world! Muah ah ah ahhhh!!
Takes a woman to figure it out, doesn't it?
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Kara, I'm gonna print this post and give it to the management of the pub that I work at.... Let's see if we can't change the system, one public restroom at a time!
PS. One of the girls who works at the pub was once a stripper... apparently it didnt pay that well. Now, she's bartending with me. Might wanna try figuring out another way to pay that gas bill...
Ooooh, good, Diane! My plan is already starting!
And you're right about bartending, I'd probably be better at USING a shaker instead of BEING a shaker. Plus, I could wear a lot more comfortable shoes bartending rather than those 6" plastic platform shoes. Good call!
I see flaws.
The handle on the outside of the door means that you are going to get germs all over your hands BEFORE you go into the bathroom stall. For men it would mean holding on with a germy hand, for women wiping with a germy hand. VERY unsanitary! YOU would be sued and lose EVERYTHING you have. I just saved your house, vehicle and cat; please send the pictures I requested as a "Thank you".
One possible suggestion is to actually make the door swing in and out, therefore eliminating any need at all for a handle.
Sorry, what was that? I got side-tracked at "Always wanted to be a stripper, so this works out."
I see another problem. The door swings in so that if you have to go now you can run straight at the door and find a stall.
Otherwise, while trying to take care of business, you would be assaulted by the constant thud thud sound of women bouncing off the door.
For those of you that don't really know me or my humor that well, I'm totally kidding about the stripper thing. Come on, did you really think I'd want to be a stripper? What a totally unprofessional, not respectable career. I'm a family kind of girl. Instead, I was thinking more along the lines of a drug dealer. I mean, this way I could make money just by having people come to me while I hang out with my dog at home instead.
The push plate for getting out that you mention, make sure it's right at butt level.
Ya know, so I can do the "bump" and exit with a little sashay.
Great picture of you btw! You know what else I can't stand about public restrooms? New ones that have stall doors that won't stay shut...what the hell is that? I mean the building was just put up & the freakin' doors are broken already????
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