Pickles by Brian Crane for October 17, 2018

What is the problem? I assume that if the seat is down, the light goes off.

Most illuminating.

I don’t have a night light in my toilet, but I do have a night light in my bathroom

Paint a little radium here and there, and you’ll always know where the hot seat is…

Put an upside-down alien spaceship in there. Beam it down Scotty.

Don’t worry Earl she is the one who will get her bottom wet if she sits down and falls in

why not have a night light?

Earl how about a light switch ? Don’t know about using electric with a loo could come back to sting you in the butt :-)

That looks like something out of Star Trek.

If you turn on a light, it confuses your brain, and you’ll have trouble falling to sleep. A night light is the best idea, and as Nab said, put the lid back down before you flush.

Just gotta turn the blind eye…

Those toilet lights are available to buy. And Earl was apparently flush with excitement when bought it. ( pun intended)

I love my toilet light. Not only do I not have to turn on the bathroom light, but I can make sure there are no “creatures” in the toilet before I sit down…I live in FL. You never know what you might find in your toilet.

Assuming it

Assuming the light is on while someone is on it, that could make for some interesting shadows.

We had cats most of my childhood, so the lid was down.

I know where everything is so no need for a light.

When did he install the new toilet?

Please don’t make Opal the butt of your jokes.

All good, sensible comments. The one about living Florida really made sense. As for a light switch. it hurts my eyes to flip on a light when it’s really dark. We have night lights. Putting the lid down before flushing is the only sanitary thing to do. Read about it. Finally, when Earl is finished, he’ll see the light first and should put the seat down. Opal should be grateful for the lighted seat. Sometimes I think Opal is just plain mean to Earl.

I guess she would rather fall into the toilet instead.

All I had to do was google “toilet light”. There are OODLES!

https://www.google.com/search?q=toilet+light&oq=toilet+light&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j0l4.3343j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Self-closing lids take care of everything

$h!%%!@ idea.

Hey, at least he lifts the seat because as an older man he may be prone to “If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat.” There are few things that are more disgusting than going to use a public convenience and find that someone has either not lifted the seat or has lifted the seat but sprayed all over the place.

1. If you’re getting up to urinate throughout the night, you probably have a health problem. Seek medical advice. You do not have to live like this. (I’m speaking from personal experience, so don’t bite my head off on this.)

2. Close the lid completely before flushing. If you don’t, the updraft from the flush spews waste all over the bathroom.

3. Turn on some lights! Why are you voiding in the dark? You don’t want to train your body to void when you’re half-asleep

I live alone and tend to close it. when you flush there is a fountain of nano-particles of water that jump into the air.

Should probably remover the GoPro, too.

oh my line has always been ‘pun intended’

during the day I always take my cell phone holder off my belt when going to the bathroom. I almost dropped my phone in the toilet once.

“In hindsight it wasn’t that BRIGHT of an idea” would have been a better pun.

We bought a very small RV (think Chevy van converted to RV). It has a relatively unique dump system that involves a macerator so we have to be VERY careful about what goes down any of the drains. (Some people who own them bag their used toilet paper as they are afraid to flush it.) If anything goes down the drain that cannot go through the macerator, we have to take the RV to a dealer and pay big bucks to have them “drop the tank” and clean it out. So we are very careful.

The toilet bowl is in a small closet (one sits with the door open and their feet in the aisle of the RV when using it). I took a look at the shelf over the bowl in the closet and got concerned. In addition I figured out that we did not want the lid bouncing up and down while driving – for noise and to prevent breaking. So I made a rule – when not in use the lid is DOWN. It has worked well for us.

This worked so well, we started keeping the lids down at home also. No shelves over the bowls, but I haven’t had to fish husband’s hair brush out of the toilet and sanitize since.