Maybe I'm jaded.

Maybe I'm old.

Perhaps I am just weary.

Or like Grandma said:

"Soured on life."

Whatever, I'm missin' somethin' here.

Yesterday, when I saw the toilet in the master bath in pieces I thought there might be a story behind it, but I wasn't sure I wanted to know about it. Much less be involved somehow.

I've been "involved" with "projects" like that before. I ain't stupid. I turn instantly into The Amazing Invisible Housekeeper. I remember when Bossling replaced the wax ring under the old one a few years ago. I wound up "involved" in that. It still makes me shudder....................................

So I just cleaned around this plumbing project, and let it go.
In the other bathroom I found that the old toilet had been replaced with a shiny new one. That explained the toilet in pieces in the other bathroom. Both were being replaced.

New plumbing does not excite me, especially if it isn't mine. And ESPECIALLY if I have to clean it. But when Bossling diddy-bopped into the office on some errand this morning and stopped by the desk to say hello, I said "That's a purty pair o' potties ya'll got." And I said it in my best Southern Redneck-ese. I'm pretty fluent. Ya'll didn't know I was bi-ling-you-all.

WELL, he was THRILLED with the new thrones, and went into great detail about the awesome flushing ability of these things. He says "Whatever you put in there it's GONE!!!! WHOOSH, outta there!" You just touch the handle and it'll suck it down!!!!!" And he just raved on. He was positively "flushed" with happiness. I'm just relieved to have one that flushes, and enough rectal ribbon for the job.

Well.............okay then! He has two Turbo-Charged Turd-Buster 2000's. I'll jump up and down with joy later. I ain't feeling the Joy right now.

Before I left the office to go to the house I caught Bosslady in her office. I said "He's tickled about those new toilets, isn't he?" She started laughing and told me he would just stand there and flush them repeatedly, and was overjoyed at flushing things DOWN them. Then she told me how , while the family was in the living room watching t.v., he'd send their son into the bathroom to flush the commode, just to hear the flush. She had to yell at him to knock it off.

And the new toilets DO make an impressive sound as far as toilet flushes go. I have to go clear to Wal-Mart-------all the way across town!------- to hear power-flushing like that. This will be convenient for me.

She did say how the noise scared the family dog. But Hell, butterflies scare that animal.

I do wish they had told me about the New Additions to the household, though.

I would have bought a gift.