The conversation started with a typical work related problem as why nothing could ever go smoothly in the office.  So I sarcastically suggested that we should just forget about the problem and go get a drink.  Dr. Mom replied back that she could not go.  She would be home eating M&Ms with a 3 year old, and trying to get him to go potty!

You know I am obsessed with potties, toilets and poop.  Many posts of mine are on this subject.  So I found this great potty online and suggested it to Dr. Mom that she should get one.

It’s not just an ordinary boring old potty.  This potty is a slot machine too.  It congratulates the kid when “mission is accomplished” and plays the jackpot noises.  Now I wondered why they couldn’t make the adult toilets do the same for us.

Then Dr. Mom told me that she found this great thing for little boys to aim at when standing up at the potty.

It reminds me of my trip to the Netherlands.  A tinkle target?  That’s exactly what they did in Holland.  They found out that men just pee anywhere without looking.  So they etched a fly into the porcelain in the men’s urinal.  They found out that the fly helped men focus and aim.  Men would actually aim at the fly and thus, were less messy and much easier for Gerda and Sofie to clean them.

The only problem for me was that I was not tall enough to use the urinals in Holland.  I think Holland has the tallest average height in the world.  It’s 5’9″ here in the U.S. for men, but it’s like 6 feet and then some in Holland.  And that’s their average.  Can you imagine I felt like walking in the woods at all times when I was there?  Anyway, because they are tall, their urinals are placed higher.  Some of them were at my chest even.  And they didn’t have any handy dandy little stools to step on near by for short people like me.  I couldn’t position myself at all.  So I always had to use the toilets instead.  How rude!