What a truth this is. Toilets, those hideous, disgusting things that must be a part of our lives truly epitomizes my world in various metaphors…two years ago my life for the most part was flushed down the toilet, everything felt crappy, and my daily life more often than not feels like a sh.. show.
Toilets! I’m slightly perturbed that I am even writing about this. I guess it’s because for the first time ever I had to fix a broken toilet seat. Why did I have to do this? Because I had been using the lowered lid to stand on in order to see my whole body in my bathroom mirror. My husband used to say, you shouldn’t stand up there, it’s going to break one day. I had no other option though!! I didn’t have a full length mirror. Well, lo and behold… it happened. Unfortunately he was not here to witness it and just like that I was on toilet fix duty and it was the most disgusting venture I’ve had to endure.
I’ve always tried to stay far away from toilets. I’m sure that may sound weird to you, but I’m simply not a fan. Now, do I use them, of course. Do I approve of the way God created our human waste system, NOT AT ALL, but I digress. My husband is the one who was typically on toilet duty in our home, now that it’s my job, I had to jump in. I have never taken a toilet seat off and needless to say it was so gross! I don’t think we have ever had to replace this toilet seat and I will spare you the unsightly image of what it looked like under the hinges.
So off I went to Lowes to shop in an area of the store that I have never had to shop in to purchase something that normally my husband would be buying…a toilet seat; and I prepared to put it into place.
And did you know that there are different kinds! All sorts of brands, wood, plastic, and shapes? There are seats that slam when you lower them and seats that are nice and quiet…like those expensive soft close cabinet drawers. Too bad the cabinet drawers aren’t as cheap as the soft close toilet seat. There are even soft padded seats! I remember those from my grandparents house when I was a kid. They would eventually crack and pinch my leg…but moving along.
So now all is well, I read the directions, screwed in all the parts and attached the new hinges appropriately. Yes…this might not be a big deal to you but it was to me!
I was rocking and rolling. All was going just dandy until I realized, I bought the wrong shape😩 So off to Lowes to try try again.
In addition to getting the correct toilet seat size, I also got this! A full size mirror. No more toilet seat stools for me😁
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