Funny Fridays: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

November 14th, 2008

A woman was sitting at a bar enjoying an after work cocktail with her girlfriends when a tall, exceptionally handsome, extremely sexy, middle-aged man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him.

The young-at-heart man noticed her overly attentive stare and walked directly toward her. (As all men would.) Before she could offer her apologies for staring so rudely, he leaned over and whispered to her, “I’ll do anything, absolutely anything, that you want me to do, no matter how kinky, for $20.00…on one condition.”

Flabbergasted, the woman asked what the condition was. The man replied, “You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words.”

The woman considered his proposition for a moment, and then slowly removed a $20 bill from her purse, which she pressed into the man’s hand along with her address.

She looked deeply into his eyes, and slowly and meaningfully said . . .

“Clean my house.”

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The following HAD to be written by a woman! No one else could describe it so accurately!

When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it’s your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.

Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.

You get in to find the door won’t latch. It doesn’t matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants!

The dispenser for the modern “seat covers” (invented by someone’s mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn’t – so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume “The Stance.”

In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You’d love to sit down, but you certainly hadn’t taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold “The Stance.”

To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother’s voice saying, “Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!” Your thighs shake more.

You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday – the one that’s still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It’s still smaller than your thumbnail.

Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn’t work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. “Occupied!” you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT . . .

It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it’s too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper – not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you’re certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly dear, “You just don’t KNOW what kind of diseases you could get.”

By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl and spraying a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.

At this point, you give up. You’re soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You’re exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.

You can’t figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting.

You are no longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??)

You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman’s hand and tell her warmly, “Here, you just might need this.”

As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men’s restroom. Annoyed, he asks, “What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?”

This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you’ve GOT to be kidding!!).

It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked question about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It’s so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door!

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To everyone in the TLeC community, have a great weekend! :-)

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Comments

  1. November 14th, 2008 | 9:07 am

    Heard the first one before, but it’s still priceless. Second one was new, and oh so true.

  2. November 14th, 2008 | 4:16 pm

    Hi SpaceAgeSage — Lori,

    Glad you enjoyed them!

  3. November 14th, 2008 | 7:02 pm

    Hi Linda. The first one was new for me. “Clean my house.” Talk about spoiling the mood :-)

    I remember the second one very well. It absolutely had to be written by a woman. It was hilarious!

  4. November 14th, 2008 | 9:46 pm

    Thank you!laughing IS better than crying. :)

  5. November 15th, 2008 | 1:18 am

    LOL! You make me fall into my chair! Absolutely it will make me happy if someone going to clean my house. Specially if the one who will clean it is like the man you describe. :)
    Thanks for the funny post!

  6. November 15th, 2008 | 4:06 am

    So I should be smarter now, the next time my wife emerges from the bathroom, and I’ve been waiting “forever”! Probably my best choice is to just keep my mouth shut…

  7. November 16th, 2008 | 10:07 am

    Hi Davina — Yes, that certainly would spoil the mood. LOL

    Hi Vered — Don’t worry, I do my share of crying, too! But I do try to laugh more than cry.

    Hi Lance — After I composed this post, I realized it was rather slanted for my lady readers (by accident)and actually wondered what, if any, comment Lance could leave this week. :-) You didn’t let me down however, and now I know you are a smart husband as well as a great writer!

  8. November 16th, 2008 | 10:22 am

    Hi Diana — Yes, these made me really laugh out loud!! Glad you enjoyed them as much as I did.

  9. November 20th, 2008 | 9:26 pm

    Hi Linda – Too funny! I agree, the second one HAD to be written by a woman. The description was perfect.

  10. November 22nd, 2008 | 10:06 am

    Dear Barbara,

    Yes, only a woman could have written that one! Glad you liked it as much as I did.

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