02.25.08
tea set tickles tot!
posted by Elizabeth Knight | 2 comments
A coffee-drinking friend sent me this tea tale from a tea-drinking friend of his:
“One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me. I was maybe 2 ½ years old and had just recovered from an accident. Someone had given me a little “tea set” as a get-well gift and it was one of my favorite toys. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when I brought Daddy a little cup of “tea” that was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Mom came home. My Dad made her wait in the living room to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because it was ‘just the cutest thing!’ My Mom waited, and sure enough, here I come down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up. Then she says, ‘Did it ever occur to you that the only place that baby can reach to get water is the toilet?’ (Notice she didn’t say that until AFTER he drank that last cup…)”
Cheers,
[photo credits: main post image by Mattdm at www.flickr.com; toilet from Scientific American at www.science-community.sciam.com]
February 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I remember reading an article years ago and then seeing a segment on 20/20 that the water in a clean toilet was actually cleaner than the water that gets recycled at the dentists office. I was not surprised to see, at my new dentists office in the pacific northwest, that spittoons that were a fixture of an east coast dentist office are no longer present.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Too bad the water bill does not break down how much drinking water the average family flushes away! The same water I use for showers, laundry and “drinking” is what fills the toilet. If the vessel is clean, drinking water from the toilet is not all that different than drinking it from a glass.