Amazing I made it to work today...

[cwkemp]

In only a slightly altered universe,

tomorrow, the answer to today's question: "Where is Colin"

could have been: "stuck in the bathroom".

Here's a snipit from an e-mail I sent to my family this morning

[...]

Even more strange was an occurence that happened this morning. I was sitting in the bathroom...minding my own...err...doing...my business when I hear: "CRASH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! boom! chink!" and "Oh my GOSH!" through the door.

After I uttered a quick "What happened?!? Are you okay?!?",
I received the following response: "Oh I'm fine - you however are now trapped in the bathroom".

My entire closet railing and shelf had fallen down when one of the
supports came loose through natural wear and tear (my wife was still in bed). BTW I was trapped, I couldn't even budge the door. My wife dug me out, but this could have been quite annoying as she is often out of the house up to half an hour before me, so I could have literally spent a day in the toilet...

[...]


Anyway, I'm posting this because it may provide some insight as to why we are so happy to finally be considering moving out from our condo and hence the recent home design epinions...

Glad to be free.

Colin

[murasaki]

LOL! The way that I stuff a closet, I could have been trapped for days. I'm glad you made it out relatively early!

--naomi

[Mrsfitts]

Let's see, What would I do?

Now, when I'm home alone, I usually take a phone with me into the bathroom-but not always, and you weren't home alone. So, no phone.

I have water, razors, tub, shower, mirrors, windows (in 2 of 3 bathrooms), puzzlebooks under the cabinets, along with some other reading material in case we have guests (we like to make everyone feel at home)

I would've been ok for 24 hours. Bored when I finished reading every book and doing every puzzle, but I could've taken a bath with all my new Burt's Bees products, experimented with all the masques and facial and other female-goo-gads I've got and never use. Finally shaved all my legs -not just the part the doc has to see once a month (knee surgery area), curled my hair with both the curling iron and the electric rollers (I have a lot of hair, that takes a lot of time) Oh, I have household product, so I could clean the toilet, shower and bath, even the sink! Maybe do the mirrors...

I wouldn't be thrilled, but I could be occupied. I'd check the scale frequently to see if I lost any of the 60 pounds that needs to be lost!

[quasar]

And now you know why I take my Palm everywhere. Reading material, games, writing implements, I always have them all.

Janice