Our first contest “bathroom quest”

[alinac]

Enter for a chance to win a price.
All we want to hear is how you handle public bathroom situations with your toddlers. Keep it fun and PG13 and at the end of August we will announce a winner.
One more thing all the site members will be able to vote on the funniest/true/clever entry.
Good luck to all.

[mom's mom]

When I heard about the “bathroom guest” story contest, I could not resist participating. Not because I wanted to win the prize, just because I think my story is very unique. Although my daughter is no longer a toddler, I think it still worth it to share her bathroom guest story. But before I begin, I’d like to describe the type of bathroom you probably forgot or have never seen in your life. I used to see it everywhere when I was growing up. It’s not a bowl, it’s kind of a big ceramic saucer with the hole in the middle filled with water (or whatever else a bathroom is for) and foot prints on the side of the hole for your feet. There is no place to sit down. You have to hoist yourself in such a way that whatever you are doing there gets inside that hole, otherwise…If you got the picture, you can imagine, what can happened otherwise.

So, for her college graduation present I decided to take my daughter to her Motherland, the city of Odessa, Ukraine not Texas. While walking the streets of that funniest place in the world, we had to go… We were not sure what we can find around and decided to visit the newly built modern shopping mall’s bathroom. I have to say that the shopping mall is located in the heart of the city and one of the many tourists’ attractions. We took the escalator to the 4th floor, opened the door and walked in to the small room with mirrors on the wall and about 4-5 closed door stalls. “Amazing”, - I thought. - “Modern, clean, water is running from the faucet”. Then I look at my daughter’s face when she opened one of the doors. Her jaw dropped, her eyes doubled in size. She looked confused, scared and completely lost. When I opened the other door, I understood that she was looking at something I described in the beginning of my story.

I guess I was too occupied with my own business there; I neglected my daughter’s look and never figured out that she did not use that bathroom. For the rest of our trip she never wanted to go. Hm…. Later when we were at the most famous attraction of the city – Seaside Boulevard I advised her that I need to go and asked if she wants it also. She convulsively shook her head and screamed “NO!” You know what, that other public bathroom was the worst experience of my life, but…it’s the subject for a new contest story.