Jun 10, 2007
{ "Wheee! Swirly!" }
Excellent-A mother came in with her little boy. Rather than accompanying and helping him in the restroom, she just pointed him in the right direction and wandered over to look at DVDs. The restrooms in our library are right next to the Circulation desk, one stall, and have a nice echo so that staff members can hear everything that goes on in there.
At first it you could just hear singing. The singing was kind of cute: “aww. The little guy is singing in the bathroom.” Then he staring yelling: “Mommy. Mommy. Mommyyyyyyyyyyy!.” Now to be clear, we are a small library. Everybody in the branch could hear this. The mother is in the DVD aisle rolling her eyes. After about five minutes of this she walks over to the restroom and yells through the door: “quit playing around with the echo and get out here.” She storms back to the DVD aisle, past me (trying hard to keep a straight face), and tells me “He's five.” That must explain everything.
This is where it gets good. He flushes the toilet. He flushes it again. There's a big giggle. He flushes it seven more times, each flush followed by a “Wheeeeee! Swirly!” When he finally RUNS out of the bathroom shrieking, I have to go find the only male staff member to “please check for flooding in the mens room.” It's always the mens room. At least this was more humorous than the time someone finger painted with fecal matter on the walls.
Labels: bad parents. restrooms, brats, Swirly
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