Monday, July 22, 2019

MONDAY DIARY: ALMOST EXCRUCIATINGLY TRUE STORIES: NEW WAYS TO DO OLD THINGS

Some of you may not want to read this.  Trigger warning.

Yesterday I spent much of the day at our seminary with some other priests helping Fr. Trenta, formerly in residence at St. Sebastian and currently my cousin, get acclimated to his new digs.  It reminded me of something that happened a few years ago when I was there visiting Fr. Ott.  I needed to use his necessary room (WC) and he suggested that I use his new contraption and see what I think. This was back when the Squatty Potty was all the rage.  Only if you need to know what this is see the following video - if not, skip it.


So I tried it out and it seemed to me a waste of a portion of a perfectly good paycheck.
And this is why, even on the simplest of new things, one should always explain to someone who has never seen or heard of such a thing how to use it.

4 comments:

Kim Miller said...

I think "squatty" would have given it away ..... hmmmmm .......

Anonymous said...

Seriously!

Timothy said...

As my wife often has occasion to tell me: "We shall never speak of this again."

lgreen515 said...

TMI, father, TMI.