Georgia State Rep. Tommy Smith introduced legislation requiring new state and local government buildings to have twice as many toilets in the women's restroom as in the men's. Several female legislators signed on as co-sponsors of Smith's bill.
"It's time-consuming for us to wait around for our date or our wife to get through the restroom," Smith said. "This just seems to be good common sense."
The bill cites the fact that women often have to accompany small children into restrooms and the "anatomical differences between men and women" as possible reasons for the longer lines in women's restrooms.
Still, Smith pondered an age-old mystery to men: "I don't know all the reasons it takes longer, but it does."
- from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
I'm checking in to a Holiday Inn
There's no nursing home in my future...when I get old and feeble, I'm checking into the Holiday Inn! The average cost for a nursing home is at least $188 per day. I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. With a combined long-term-stay discount and senior discount, it's $49.23 per night. That leaves $138.77 a day for: Breakfast, lunch and dinner in any restaurant I want, or room service. Laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.
Plus, Holiday Inn provides a swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge, washer, dryer, etc. Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap. They treat you like a customer, not a patient. Five bucks worth of tips a day will have the entire staff scrambling to help you. There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free. To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays. For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there. While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.
It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today. And you're not stuck in one place forever: You can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city. Want to see Hawaii? It has Holiday Inns, too. TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No problem! They fix everything and apologize for the inconvenience. The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you're OK. If not, they'll call the undertaker or an ambulance. If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life. And no worries about visits from family. They'll always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation. The grandkids can use the pool.
- from one cousin's correspondence to another.
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