Local Woman Glued to Toilet Seat
Okay, my good Southern mother (actually from Ohio) taught me when I learned to use the potty (I was one year old, prodigy all the way) that you should NEVER sit on a public toilet seat. Also, that you should NEVER touch the flusher in a public restroom. Only your foot should be allowed to come in contact with with that germ-laden beast, no matter how high that sucker is. (Due to that I was able to win the gold medal on the tumbling floor exercises in gymnastics at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic games.) To say my Mom was/is a germaphobe when it comes to her kids, might just be the understatement of the century. Ironically enough, one of the MANY “theories” out there on the causes of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is that kids can develop it from being too clean. Go figure.
Silliness aside, my heart is broken for a poor woman who got herself glued to a toilet seat with an industrial glue by a prankster at a local Atlanta Home Depot store. Okay, first I was thinking how this poor soul should have known better than sitting directly on the seat with no “protection.” Then I started thinking about myself and the (thank God) very few times I have had such urgency to have a bowel movement due to my Crohn’s disease that I had not one second to spare while out and about (and you are just praying that you are at a nice hotel’s public restroom and not the one at the back of a 30 year old Texaco gas station that you need to ask the attendant for the key with a small tire attached to it to get in.) This can also be true for women with urine urgency issues.
My prayers are with this lady and I totally agree, the first responders should have gotten her to the hospital before attempting to remove the seat, instead of using WD-40. Ouch! What a crazy world we live in.
~The Belle
Belle of the Bowel 
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