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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Kevin Wilson writes:
> richard marchetti wrote in message ...
> > But while we're here, what is the purpose of a toilet seat lid? Have you
> > ever thought about it?
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> To keep animals and children out of the toilet. Small kids can drown in
> toilets.
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> > Have you ever been in a restroom where the seats had
> > no such lids?
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> ?? In my experience, public restrooms don't have lids and private bathrooms
> do, which would be logical according to the above reason.
My mother claims a friend of hers caught some sort of viral ailment from
breathing in the vapors generated by flushing a toilet in a Kmart restroom.
She is so persistent with stories like this that my six year old made it from
our house fifty miles from SF Intl Airport to about an hour north of Bangor,
Maine last summer without once using a public restroom, until he finally fell
asleep in Grandpa's new SUV and peed all over the upholstery.
(I warned you guys not to start....)
Maggie
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| There is a slice-of-life article in the New York Times 6/11 about public restrooms in the subways. There is talk of hazard suits and padlocked doors. It cost too much to repair them constantly, and even more to hire attendants, so now they just try (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| richard marchetti wrote in message ... (...) To keep animals and children out of the toilet. Small kids can drown in toilets. (...) ?? In my experience, public restrooms don't have lids and private bathrooms do, which would be logical according to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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