Simple Pleasures

The things you find on the Internet. If watching where you're going is not interesting enough, now you can have something else to watch while you're going.

Beware. They can also watch you.

This is not merely my idea of bathrooom humor. Har har. If we can believe this blog, this is a real product. But I ask you: Do you really want someone whose aim while urinating might not be accurate anyway to be distracted while he's doing it? It's not going to impess a lady, is it? What view is she going to have of it while tending to her bathroom business?

But you know some guy will get one then decide it's too cool to keep hidden in his water closet. That'll be the guy you make the mistake of visiting only to discover the toilet sitting in his living room. Just don't tell me the part of the story where he hosts a keg party and the line waiting for the bathroom gets too long. Just hope he has real plumbing attached to it.

Fitting that I would come across that site at a time when tens of thousands of people in this country would consider a simple flushing toilet as the grandest of luxuries. For most of us, an accident of birth lets us take such things as indoor plumbing for granted. Much of the world doesn't have it. Many countries routinely face the kind of tragedy we rightly find so totally shocking to see happen here. Starving desperate refugees fleeing an unliveable hell. American refugees? Crazy!

Common conveniences become simple pleasures. I treaure them even without the decoration.