As most of you know, I walk a bit of a twisty line. I don’t like Mixey Mixey food. I curse a lot. I think that love is all about Mr. Ketchup. I am addicted to teddy bears. There is lots of oddness going on around here and I’m okay with that. I always figure if you can do something in a fun way, why not? This leads me to a delightfully hideous memory that makes me both laugh and run screaming into the night each time I think about it.
When I was a little girl, like most of you, I drank out of a sippy cup. As I got older my mom let us drink out of plastic mugs (even though I always wanted to drink out of Daddy’s yellow and white checkered coffee mug.) I like cool and funky drinking containers to this day. Why have boring glasses if you can have weird ones?
Needless to say, I liked to make an adventure out of everything and for years I found a fun way to do that it the shower. NO! This is not some perverted story. I was around 7 when this silly shower fun began and if memory serves it went on for at least a couple of years.
I found a toy in my mom’ shower that was awesome for rinsing off soap and getting a drink without using the shower head. It was this cool thingy that I figured my mom also used for drinking and rinsing. I’d try and avoid being hit by the water coming out of the shower head and only use this awesome toy for bathing and liquid refreshment. I would fill my toy up with water and let it rain down on me like a delightful summer sprinkle. A successful shower was one where my thirst was quenched and my body cleaned by the cool red and white toy. Showering was fun! Mom didn’t even have to fight me to get me in there. I never told anyone about my pseudo shower toy. It was my own little shower-time fun.
Now, I’d like to introduce you to my favorite shower toy, out of which I DRANK and BATHED probably 500 times. Scroll WAY down to see it.
Imagine my shock when I was in my THIRTIES and found out what my toy actually was!!! Good Lord have mercy… 🙂
Look at the bright side – if you’d have been any less well adjusted, that would have turned into some kind of sick fetish or something – go give hubby a hug and a fist bump, you’re NOT fucked up! Woohoo!
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It is a complete miracle that it didn’t turn me into a serial killer!!! 😉 I’m heading towards the hubby right now. Any excuse for a hug. 🙂
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Haa thanks for the laugh out loud early morning happiiness! This is hysterical….
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I’m glad my horror could entertain you. KIDDING!!! 🙂 Every time I even think about how happily I’d drink outta that thing I cringe and giggle!!
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LMFAO!!!!! I figured it was something “not right” but I never expected that! HAHAHAHA.
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Honey, there is lots of “not right” goin’ on around here! This is but one reason why! 😉 Happy it gave you a chuckle!! 🙂 It still make me laugh when I think about it.
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Most of the “not right”‘s in the world are the funniest. Every time I see a water bottle now I’m just going to have giggles, I know it lol
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Ha! That totally tickles me to know that I’ve added a new dimension to your water bottle viewing! 🙂 Each time I see one I bust out laughing, then I kinda wanna wretch! 😉 Lordy…the innocence of youth.
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OMG !! Yuk! You crack me up girl!! This will make me grin at work today… 🙂
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Yuck is right!!! Ewwwww!!!! John, life is just full of insanity, of which this is one small (yet HORRIFYING) part!! 🙂 I loved that damn toy!!! Glad you’ll have the grins at work, especially on a Monday!
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OMG and….Ewwwwwww!!!!!! Thanks for the morning chuckle. 🙂
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Hi lifeinthedashlane!! Total Ewwwwwwwww!!! I couldn’t agree more! My poor mother was HORRIFIED when I told her the story. “You did WHAT??? With WHAT???” Ha ha! The look on her face was priceless. 😉
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I bet it was! I once had a dead mouse at the back of my fridge (in the motor housing assembly). Couldn’t find it for days! The stench was unbearable! I was readying myself and the kids to live in a hotel room until the source of the smell was found. Thankfully, my ex boyfriend took the back of the fridge off and found the decaying mouse and got rid of it. To this day, I still shudder when I remember that smell. Ewwww! I got a cat soon after that. No more mice!
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Talk about ewwww!!! The stench of rotting anything is pretty bad, but especially a little mousie! That smell will stick with you forever. Ick! Smart for getting a cat! I love me some kitties, but they are also great mousie/bug hunters. Gotta earn their keep. 🙂
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Bless your heart and why in the world did our Mom’s find the need to leave those out in the open anyway!!
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I know!!! You’d think they’d hide that stuff. 😉 Seems like quite the personal feminine item! At least it made for a good story 35 years later. 😉
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Oh my! Too funny!!!! Thanks for the laugh this morning!
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You are quite welcome, the forgotten wife! 🙂 I still laugh when I think about it!
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There should really be warning labels on those. I till get a shiver now and again recalling my own childhood “confusion” over that “toy” … lol … rather versatile playthings though
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I agree!!! There should be warning labels. At least a “Do Not Drink” sticker…something! 🙂 I’m glad I’m not the only one who pondered the toy as a child. I hope your pondering remained in your head and didn’t turn into action, like my doofus self did. 🙂
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I plead the Fifth .. do blushes show in text?
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I can see it from here!!!! 🙂
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I so wanted to play with this sucker when I was a kid, but my mom yanked it out of my hands and hid it! I guess I should be thanking her. 😉
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You need to send your mom flowers, immediately!! Less craziness for you because she protected you from, “THE BAG.” 😉
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Oh man…I’m having a flashback.
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AH HA!!! So, it’s not just me?? Hee hee hee… 🙂
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That’s hilarious! 😀 Great way to start a Monday…with laughter! Thanks 🙂
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Hi Aimsphotos! As Mondays do suck, I’m so happy I was able to give you a chuckle on this Monday morning. 😉 Have a great week!
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I have nominated you for the Sunshine blogger award …your blog is so upbeat it makes me feel good to read ..Thanks for sharing your thoughts …Tim
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Tim!!! Thank you!! Oh my gosh…I am so truly blessed to have sweethearts like you visit my blog. You just warmed my heart…thank you.
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Grandma’s hot water bottle! Muahahahahahah!
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Oh yeah…if only it had never been used for its intended purpose before I turned it into a drinking fountain/shower head… 😉
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I was always afraid of anything that belonged to grandma. Your horrible story made me laugh — thanks for that.
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Any time, new friend…any time. 🙂
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Congrats~I’ve nominated you for The Versatile Blogger Award!
http://photoscience.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/the-versatile-blogger-award-i-feel-so-honored/
Please view the nomination page- and follow the rules to accept the award.
Cheers!
-Chanel
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HOLY MOLY!!! Thank you, Chanel!!! You are such a dear. I appreciate this more than you know. My heart is officially warmed!! 🙂 Yay!!!
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So welcome Jodi! Keep on keepin’ on 😉 !
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You bet, beautiful girl! 🙂
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wow. That’s really all I can think of to say right now. Congrats. You rendered a dirty minded perverted aircraft mechanic totally speechless.
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I HAVE ARRIVED!!! Woo hoo!!! Tee hee hee…rendering you speechless has made my day. 😉
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*gaspy noise* 🙂
That made our Mummy giggle but whee don’t get it. It looks like a nice toy. 😉
Nibbles, Nutty, Bingo & Buddy
xxxx
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Hi Nibbles, Nutty, Bingo and Buddy…you just close your sweet little furry eyes. This post is for Mummys only. 🙂
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Yeah that would freak me out just a little, but then you were only seven now had you been 16 and known what it was this would have been a whole different kinda post. But your flash back is the reason I hide and put away all my items. I don’t have kids, but I have nephew and all I need is him to come wondering out of my room with my vibrator in hand thinking it is a fun colored vibrating toy he can play with. I can just see him now switching it on and off and giggling. Then I’d have to listen to that story retold at family parties forever. Not something I ever want to happen.
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Oh my gosh! You paint quite the picture! You would NEVER live that story down!!!!
Yeah, thank God I was too young to know what was going on. That fact alone probably saved me thousands of dollars in therapy! 😉
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GAG! What a mental picture, lol.
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Oh, I know. I wanna puke thinking about it!! 😉
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My mother had one of those! (I didn’t use it as a shower aid…) come to think of it, I haven’t seen one in many years. Made a great hot water bottle though!
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Thank God you had more smarts than me!!! I don’t even know if they make those suckers anymore. Too many people like me drinking outta them! 😉
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That is disgustingly hilarious!
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I have the same exact reaction when I think about it!! 😉
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My husband did the same thing with his mother’s douching apparatus! You are not alone! (Unfortunately. lol)
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Hi Rebecca. SERIOUSLY???? That is awesome! Sorry, it just makes me feel better that I’m not the only one!!! 🙂 Next time I’m having a drink I shall toast to us douche drinkers!! 😉
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