Toilet Justice by Juliet Aucreman
I thank Mrs. Wright, my kindergarten teacher, for teaching me to stand in line, a skill I’ve used ever since, while waiting to use a women’s bathroom. But still I suffer the experience. You see, Mrs. Wright neglected to address Restroom-Line Indignation (RLI), the indignation incited in waiting women when they witness men whooshing through men’s rooms.
Recently, my husband and I drove to Death Valley to see the spring wildflowers. From time to time, my husband sipped water, and now and then he’d pull over, pop out, and leave me to ponder. I drank little, willfully parching myself. For a dame, drinking and driving in lowland Death Valley is dangerous since there’s nothing to pop behind. The road stretches straight across the flat, leaving the far hills to loftier duties than hiding busy women.
After driving through Death Valley for about two hours, we reached “Badwater”, a salty body of water named by a prospector whose mule wouldn’t touch the stuff. The National Park Service has furthered the Badwater tradition by providing vaulted toilets.
I approached the bathroom lines, women’s and men’s, which, of course, were lopsided. Without a thought, I pulled in behind a woman, number fifteen in line. Then I peered ahead at the men’s line. Total men in line? Three.
Suddenly it occurred to me: the men’s line was shorter because the men had been going…all along the road.
Now we women, who’d had to wait and wait and wait while our partners had pulled over and over and over, and wait and wait and wait for a bend in the road that did not come, and wait and wait and wait for a tree that did not exist, and wait and wait and wait for a bathroom to appear…had finally found a latrine, and where yet again we waited, watching the men whoosh ahead.
That’s when the RLI struck.
“I can’t take it anymore,” I announced.
I walked up to the men’s line. In the men’s line, last place was fourth place – which, back in the women’s line, was a prestigious position. My comrades crowed in approval.
The man just ahead of me, dressed in Harley gear, welcomed me. Then he invited his girlfriend to come on over. Over she came.
“This is crazy,” I said to the men. “We’ve waited and waited and waited, and now we have to wait again. You’ve been peeing all along. You can pee anywhere you like.”
“Oh yeah?” said Mr. Harley. “There’s a fine for peeing anywhere but the latrine. You pay the fine, and I’ll be happy to pee most anywhere.”
The men ahead of him just looked down.
Three more women joined my new side. Behind them, a few more Harley men joined us. One said:
“If you guys keep coming over here, we’ll never get a turn.”
Saying this, he inspired two more women to cross over. We knew that separate was not equal.
Finally my turn came.
Before entering the latrine, I sucked in a lungful of Badwater air. My lungful started out bad, and only grew worse as I tried not to suck in another lungful, wondered whether I’d
lose my head, wondered why they couldn’t build some concrete bushes for women along the way, wondered what horrible person invented latrines, wondered whether I really needed to button up my pants before exiting, and wondered if God could intervene before I finally rushed out, gasping.
Dust coated my nostrils. Air seared my lungs. But something wonderful was happening. My fellow linebackers were smiling. Because for the first time in history, a men’s line had grown longer than a women’s line.
I smiled in sweet epiphany.
Only thirty years past kindergarten, I’d finally gotten my toilet justice.
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Toilet Justice
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The Adventure
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Sunday Morning - Pingu and Robby Music Video
A New Music Video of Pingu is Here!, with Lots of footages of Pingu and Robby's Friendship and Rivalry!
with Song by Marroon 5 aswell
Dedicated to all Fans of Pingu and Robby!
Enjoy! :)
Dan5589/Nevillefan
NOTE: All Things were Copyrighted to their Respected Owners
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Crazy Walking Adventure!
Me and My Boyfriend decided to walk to my friends house. And it turned into a 3 hour walk! GAH!
So here is some video I took. Not a lot really. It was pitch black for the last 2 hours because, well....we left at 6:30...and got back at 9:30. And my friend lives out in the woods. Haha! so yeah, this was our walk!
Enjoy! :D
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It's a Mannequin's World part3
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Robby Starbuck Driving To Van's Warped Tour 2007
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Mascot Love part1
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Rattled!
Rattled by Juliet Aucreman
The other day, my husband and I drove to the beach for a walk. We fed the parking meter and then walked out onto the sand. But it was high tide, so we couldn’t go more than a few minutes in either direction. We had to turn back. I was disappointed because I’d wanted a long walk. And I resented putting a lot of change into the parking meter.
My husband Corky suggested we make good on our parking investment by exploring the open bluff over the beach. It sounded like a good idea, but I worried about our footwear. I wore sporty sandals, but Corky only wore flip-flops.
“Don’t worry about it,” he said.
Corky is usually safety-conscious – he recently made me upgrade to a safer car - so I thought, “Fine! I’ll stop worrying.” But I let him take the lead.
We followed a little footpath that led us uphill, back and forth, switchback style. Suddenly, Corky lunged to the side and then bolted ten feet up the trail. I heard rattling and dashed back several paces. Something dark was coiled up in the path.
Corky yelled down at me, “That’s the biggest rattlesnake I’ve seen! That thing’s at least six feet long!”
I looked up the hill, trying to see how I could get past the snake. Tall thistles and cactus, as high as my shoulders, guarded both sides of the trail. I scanned the hill, looking for a break in the brambles, but saw nothing. The snake continued rattling – it sounded like someone shaking a piggy-bank. Corky found a five-foot stick, came down the slope, and tried to move the rattlesnake off the trail. It wouldn’t budge.
“Why don’t you come up here and join me?” said Corky, not joking.
“I’m not THAT lonely,” I said.
He kept prodding the snake.
The rattling persisted; the snake stayed put.
Keeping his stick wedged between the snake and himself, Corky came back by leaping through the four-foot thistle thicket.
“Can we go home now?” I said.
“We’ve only just started,” he said. “Let’s walk around some more.”
“But your flip-flops! And the snake!” I said.
“Ah, that’s not going to happen again,” he said.
This from the man who insisted I needed a safer car.
“Don’t worry, it wasn’t that big a deal,” he said. “I wouldn’t have died – I’d have just lost a leg or something.”
“But you’re already missing a hand,” I said. (Corky was born without a left hand.) “If you lose a leg, you’ll just have two limbs left.”
“No, three,” he said, laughing.
We started walking again. Then I saw a snake twisting through the air over the trail. I screamed; Corky laughed. The “snake” was only a old bent pipe. We walked a little further. Something rustled in the bushes. I screamed; Corky laughed. It was a little bird. Now I LONGED for home. After all, I’d just battled three snakes. We passed through a chain-link fence, and my shirt got caught. I screamed; Corky laughed.
Walking back toward the car, we passed a bus stop where a ragged-looking man was sitting.
“How’s it going?” I said.
“Just trying to hold together,” he said.
“Me too,” I said. Corky laughed.
I smiled, and rattled my keys.
Corky screamed.
Revenge is sweet.
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It's a Mannequin's World part2
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Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites Part2
Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites Part2
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Flaming Lamp-Brakes
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Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites Part1
Season 1, 1.06 - Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites Part1
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Flaming Lamp- Locked Out
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Carnifex "Lie To My Face" Music Video
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It's a Mannequin's World part1
Season 1, 1.07 - It's a Mannequin's World part1
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A Forbidden Planet on This Day In Sci-Fi History - March 15th
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Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites Part3
Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites Part3
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Build Your Own BRYCE Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet!
Robby the Robot from the movie Forbidden Planet is one of the most beloved characters in all of science fiction. NOW, you can build your own Robby the Robot using the Bryce 3-D modeling program. ClydeSight Productions has created a FREE tutorial that shows you how. Just visit:
http://www.clydesight.com/brRobby
or Google "Forbidden Bryce"
and you're on your way to having your own virtual Robby the Robot.
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Robby Gordon Baja 500 Slide
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