“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent.” ~ Horton Hears a Who, Dr. Seuss
Or like your mom told you, “say what you mean and mean what you say.”
I ran errands this morning and since it was bumping into lunchtime, I was hungry and could feel a headache coming on. With more stops to make, I decided to pop into the dive Mexican restaurant (I had a taco ~ delicious by the way) next door to the post office.
The sign below was in the ladies’ restroom and it cracked me up. What do they mean “any kind of paper?” No toilet paper? No seat covers? No Kleenex? What’s a girl to do? Throw it away in the garbage? If so, I feel bad for whoever’s job it is to empty trash.
They should say what they mean. The garbage guy would be grateful.
Robin Coyle 
I am compelled to come back to this post. Just heard an ad on the radio – “If you ring us for a number we will also send a map to your destination”. What is the point of sending the map to the destination. I was torn for a second there, weather to use a full stop, a question mark or an exclaimation mark. Should have gone with question mark.
Why a question mark?
While there was no point in sending the map to the destination, it was structured as a question. Sometimes informal, or from the hip comments can hang me because tone is hard to convey in type. I was leaving the house when I heard the ad and took the moment while I remembered to do it.
Oh, that makes sense Michael.
On an aside, has something been changed in the wordpress setup? The Reader tab seems to have stopped working today. Did I perhaps overuse it? Are three posts in a day too much of a shock for the wordpress system? I miss reading the bloggers I follow. I found this link to your post through an undeleted email. More from the hip typing, I am afraid. Since the spam issue, I look up to you as a champion of us bloggers. I will mail support.
Hmmm . . . mine isn’t working either. Yet another WordPress hiccup. Darn them!
How lovely to be considered a champion of bloggers. I feel a tad like a Superhero!
Your analysis is wrong. You’re focusing on paper, but that’s not what is in red. You should be focusing on throw. DO NOT THROW is in red. Ergo, that’s the focus of the sentence. You can place any paper you want in the toilet, just don’t throw it. I suspect that restroom was having problems with kids throwing paper…………….
Excellent point. It is ok to gently place the paper in the toilet but not THROW it. Makes too much of a splashy mess.
I’m late to this, catching up… but had to add my thoughts. They need to go futher, explain what type of paper they don’t want thrown, placed, deposited and which sort they do & if they suggest folded or scrunched. If they really want you to take notice they’d put the sign on the back of the cubicle door. When I was at boarding school, we had pages of formula’s, etc anything to be rote learned & remembered, stuck to the back of the bathroom door which faced the loo 🙂 In the office we have the emergency procedures 🙂
Wow. Your board school mistress must have been one tough old lady. No peace from your studies? Not even while sitting on the pot?
And yes, if the restaurant needs to give “paper rules,” they should be more precise in their instructions.
What? I’m with you. Because I’m a creature of habit, I would automatically drop and flush while reading the sign. Afterwards I’d say oops to let the spirits think I didn’t mean to.
This is too funny.
And then you would have to run for a plunger to unclog the toilet to hide your crime.
that’s really funny it made my day 🙂
It made me laugh. I had to share “potty humor.”
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They should have just went to extreme and and prohibited the use of a toilet – or any kind of paper – on their premises completely. That would make it so much more fun for the visitors…lol
Funny! You know what else is funny? You’ve been tagged Robin!
Ha ha ha. Very funny. But thank you! I couldn’t tell what the award is for.
Is it a drip dry establishment?
Ha ha! Indeed!
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who notices and gets annoyed… well amused – by these things! 🙂
We writers are sticklers for details.
Take away your paper? Now that is nasty.
Funny, but they stored their extra toilet paper, seat covers, and paper towels in the restroom. Tempting to throw a roll of toilet paper in the bowl, but I am a nice girl and obey all signs.
I am sure you would have left a note of apology though.
Yes. On lovely stationery. Crane’s I believe.
Heh, that’s funny. Got a leaf handy?
Since it was a Mexican restaurant, Tamale husks? Ew. Ouch.
Hee, hee.
We could also interpret this another way. They highlight DO NOT THROW. Maybe it’s okay to gently drop ANY kind of paper in there. 🙂 Just no playing basketball, perhaps….
VERY good point. Maybe the janitor is sick and tired of having to mop the floor from people slam-dunking their toilet paper in the bowl. Ha! Didn’t think of that.
If that’s their policy, I think it is only fair that they put the sign outside the bathroom so you know before you enter. Once you’re there, you’re committed and you don’t have the opportunity to clarify.
Excellent point.
Talk about user confusion in an awkward moment. 🙂
Exactly. Ugh.
Very funny! The cleaner probably doesn’t know where it all went wrong! Amazing to think something so simple could cause such a mess! haha….
Yeah, the poor guy. I hope he wears gloves while cleaning the bathroom.
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That is hilarious. 🙂
I was tempted to say something about the sign but what would I say?
There is not much you can say about it, it just seems like such a silly sign to have in a place where you use a lot of paper. 😆
Or at least we hope people use paper. Ew.
Perhaps they were trying to be delicate – ? yewwwww anyway.
Yes. Ew. The bathroom was clean but I didn’t touch anything!
so strange. I guess you’re supposed to put it on the floor? Hee hee. I agree with you. Poor custodian.
BTW, I nominated your for a Reader Appreciation award today! Thank you for visiting my blog and commenting now and then. Much appreciated! Enjoy your day.
The sign was a dilemma for me. Being the rule breaker that I am, I ignored the sign!
Whoa! How did I miss your nomination of me? I guess I didn’t scroll down far enough in the email. My sincere apologies! Thank you so much. What a lovely thing to receive.