We live in a house with one bathroom. This is not terribly troublesome to us at this point. There’s only occasionally a time when more than one of us wants to use the bathroom at the same time. We’ve lived in this house since before Simeon was born, which means that it’s been over 2 years. Of course, our local relatives have been frequent visitors. So I was surprised when I heard this exchange, and it reminded me of The Far Side, when the title of the comic was “People Unclear on the Concept”:
Nephew: [upon finding that the bathroom was occupied when he needed to go] Hannah, will you please lead me to the upstairs bathroom?
Hannah: We don’t have an upstairs bathroom.
Nephew: ….?
I found it funny that he was convinced that we must have a bathroom SOMEWHERE that he hadn’t seen, even in all of his visits and rambles over our house. People don’t have houses with only one bathroom, do they?!? Do they?
Happily, the person in the bathroom was finished before our nephew’s situation became too urgent, and he can affirm the old adage that “you learn something new every day.” Some people do have just one bathroom.
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