Tech freak or Jewel freak, what would you call yourself?
Smart electronic seats or all bling? If you’re a lover of the latter, there’s apparently a Gold seat embedded with over 40,000 diamonds in a Shanghai museum that you may want to replicate in your home! Oh, forgot to mention, the seat is bulletproof! 😛
Dear Mother I asked you for neither!
How many of you just cannot do without a phone/ book/ newspaper in the loo!?
It all started with ‘Reader’s Digest.’ The other day I saw a friend’s post of a column from the magazine on unnecessary inventions and the one that caught my attention was the ‘Heated and/or Padded toilet seats!’ The author dismissed the invention stating that one was supposed to go in, do their job, get out AND not spend hours there.
The second case of Digest was an article from the much acclaimed Architectural Digest that Google Discover suggested, ‘Inside the homes of Aquarian Celebrities!’
I’m not saying any sort of fancy toilet seats will find a place in this Aquarian’s dream bathroom but nothing can stop me from spending TIME inside the loo of my own home!
Both these put together got me thinking about My Spot, The Pot.
As a child, the word ‘space’ didn’t mean anything beyond an area that’s free but in retrospective that beige tiled, small rectangular room with a grilled window in my Wadala ground floor home that accommodated only the pot, was my favourite place, the ‘my space’ in every sense, physically and metaphorically.
I’d grab an Archie Comic or a Sidney Sheldon on happy days and study books on exam days to spend hours locked inside! It was my dream to decorate the wall with a bookshelf for my precious collection and some for general public, mainly so I wouldn’t have to run in search of a book before nature’s call but also because it was my place of peace. Unfortunately that dream never materialised thanks to my Mom. She shares the same sentiment as the above mentioned author; the loo is a place of piece NOT peace.
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Recently I ended up in the loo of our resort in Pench without my phone. Funnily that morning I was the proud owner of not one but two phones, yet I found myself sitting on the pot with neither! We were running late for the Tiger Safari but I didn’t want to suffer on the safar, after all the coffee had worked its magic already!
Ways of entertainment on the pot when you don’t have a phone/ book/ newspaper:
1) Find a word around you and make as many words as you can!
For eg. I found the word FLORA on a bucket – Loaf, Foal, Far, Oar, Oaf…
2) Count the number of tiles on the walls and do the add/ subtract/ multiply game! I stick to simple addition to avoid system overload.
3) Turn on the tap. Once the bucket fills, your time is up. This works not unlike those games with an hourglass, but this kind of pressure isn’t for the faint hearted! No pun.
4) Think of ideas for your next blog!….
As far as the dream bathroom was concerned, I got the chance to convert our boring one into a whacky bathroom that was suited to my Aquarian tastes and preferences in 2021 when we went in for renovations before the arrival of our baby! (minus the books)…
What if you do have your dream bathroom and the time to spend in that dream bathroom BUT there’s someone that STOPS you from doing so and that someone makes your Mother seem like an Angel!?
Welcome to Motherhood!
Then it’s the toddler in your life that will never let you have more than a minute to yourself, let alone pee or poop in peace! 😀
P.S. From the above images I think it’s quite clear that not even a bulletproof seat can save you from a toddler attack!
Cheers!
C.A.: Confused Aquarian 