But not today.  I'm dragging ass so more superficial crap from me.  Our vendor for data/voice service at work did maintenance last night so I was up at 3:00 AM testing to make sure we had phones/ internet/ and that they didn't jack with the DNS pointers (as has happened in the past) so there were no surprises this morning.  Then I got a 5:00 am call from someone about something else...so not a great nights sleep.  

Because I apparently can't stop thinking of the bathroom I paid no attention to while growing up...our bathroom faucets had these little buttons on the side which you'd push and water would stream up like a water fountain.  Kind of like this, but not an attachment, it was an iterated feature.  It was one of those weird - oh that's cool - things when people would see it for the first time.

Not that it made our house a tourist attraction or anything.  There were never people lined up waiting to get their picture taken with our sinks.

I tried to find a picture but failed.  I thought everything was on the internet?  Anyway I'll settle for this one, as soon as I can figure out if it will fit the faucets, because it's handy and I miss it and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than building a laundry chute.

Originally ours was designed to drop laundry on the floor (or into a basket under it, I suppose) but when my dad finished the basement he built the wall out so the laundry would drop into a giant cubby (for lack of a better term) in the wall.  This was closed off with a wooden door so you wouldn't see piles of laundry until you actually went to do laundry.  Because the wall had to be out about 4 feet or so he built storage cubbies and shelves in the rest of the wall so as to not waste space.

And it takes me 20 years to install an add on to my faucet.  Sometimes the apple lands really far away from the tree.

Very cool way to make sure he wouldn't have to see a pile of laundry...ever...but know what they forgot to do?  Childproof it.  At all.  I didn't actually slide down the chute, but not for lack of trying as up to 4-5 I'd have easily fit through the top.  

I did however use it for hide and seek until the fateful day my much older brother, totally old enough to know better - but a hockey stick through the door handle and jammed it so I couldn't get out.  It was intended as  joke, until he forgot about me and went out to play with his friends.

Almost an hour stuck in a laundry chute, which was not empty.  Fortunately I was a very loud child and voices carry well through chutes so my sister getting home and using the bathroom was alerted to my blood curdling shrieking.  

ALMOST AN HOUR.

Felt like 600 years.  This was more than 40 years ago and yet every time I see my brother I'll find some way to mention "laundry chute" just to see him look ashamed of himself.

He's a very respectable member of society, a good and decent man who to my knowledge has not kept anyone else captive before or since...but ...

Someday he may be old and wanting to relive his youth with a game of hide and seek with his little sister.  Won't that be fun when I get to be "it" this time?

He'd better hope I don't have access to a cabinet which can be locked with a hockey stick is all I'm saying.

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Speaking of my brother - not that he'll ever read this...I'd like to thank him for convincing me of the following:

• The electrical towers were sleeping monsters who came alive at night to kill girls who don't stop talking.
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• Dracula lived in our broom closet and he was only invisible to his next victim, which is why everyone could see him but me.
• When you kill a spider all of it's relatives know who did it and they wait until you're sleeping to crawl in your mouth.

But also during the tornado watch when Mom was at work thank you for covering me with a million throw rugs and blankets in the basement so if the windows broke glass wouldn't hurt me.  I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that under 5 feet of heavy fabric I was muffled and quiet.

And for risking your life and going to upstairs to save my turtles from the tornado.  I can't find an ulterior motive there so I think that was just a glimpse of your future decency.

ETA turtle pics