Yum!

[cjsmith]

In the building where I work, they've recently started putting candy in the restrooms. There are Starlight mints, butterscotch drops, and Tootsie rolls.

I don't know about you, but when I head into a restroom the first thing I do NOT think is "Snack time!" The second thing I do NOT think is "I'd like to eat a Tootsie roll!"

Comments

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

These must have been placed there by someone used to posh restrooms - you know, those that have little lounges and chairs where people say "gee, I think I'll go hang out and drink tea with my friends while the next person over takes a leak".

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tea would be just about as bad as a Tootsie roll now that I think of it.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

But think of the efficiency! You never have to leave the restroom area.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Need wireless service and loaner laptops.

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

That would be a feeble attempt to disprove Buckminster Fuller's Law of Cosmic Irreversibility:

1 Pot T = 1 Pot P

but

1 Pot P != 1 Pot T

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

ew. food in restrooms = gross gross gross! I *might* be willing to allow breathmints, but that's really the closest thing to food that's even remotely OK.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

That was good for a morning laugh!

[dcart.livejournal.com]

They have hair gel in the men's rooms where I work. I am not kidding.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've seen women's rooms with various nose-powdering-type products available by the sinks, but I haven't seen that sort of thing in an office building.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Let's hope the candy-dishes are only accessible to folks who have washed their hands on the way out.

[zpdiduda.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeuuuwww. Just.....eeeeuuuuuwwww.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Eewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Now I'm thinking about an old candy bar that I used to buy in Chicago: "Bun".

That would be nearly as bad.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I had to look that up. Yeah. That and Nut Goodie and turtles and... well, pretty much any variant on freeform chocolate blobs.

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

When I was in college, one of the taste-is-probably-not-worth-the-sight-gag drinks that occasionally showed up at parties was called a "Ti-D-Bowl," which was made with blue curacao and had a Tootsie Roll in the glass.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA! I hadn't heard of that one. There's always the kitty litter cake, of course. If you melt the Tootsie Rolls just a little, they're way too realistic.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

That is wrong on all levels. No food in bathrooms. One of my roommates used to take a cup of coffee and a magazine into the bathroom and that put me off my feed...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm not as bothered by the food thing as some folk are, although I'm not going to eat anything from that candy dish. And the whole idea of being offered a Tootsie roll in a bathroom... that's just too clueless!

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

EEEK! The first thing I think is "I don't want to eat candy that has been sitting all day in a restroom!".

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The Starlight Mints got water splashed on them today. I think maybe the candy dish won't stay there forever.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Ick. If that's the new snack bar, I hope nobody decides to put a bottle of apple juice in there....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA no kidding!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Sunday at the grocery I saw a bin of bulk Tootsie Roll minis wrapped in flag-colored paper for Independence Day (or leftover from Flag Day).

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

you totally need to sneak a label onto the machine saying GARBAGE IN

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes! The other label, for the stall door, can wait for later. :-)

[genuine-snark.livejournal.com]

You could just use one label, "GIGO-Bites."