I remember looking at a house in Boston that my realtor said was the only one he’d ever seen whose value could be increased by taking out a bathroom. It was a toilet and sink installed at the head of the stairs down to the finished basement. No door between it and the stairs, just a toilet sitting on the landing.
:eek: That beats my grandma’s house, where the basement “bathroom” consisted of a toilet,* not concealed in any way, over by the utility sink. And it definitely beats my old place, which had a basement toilet surrounded by a summer-camp-style wooden stall, the door and walls of which reached neither the floor nor the ceiling.
*Plumbed, of course. Grandma wasn’t a barbarian.
ENugent, now the real question is…did they call it a bathroom? Or a half-bath? Or was it just a “fun little surprise” you discovered once you were there?
I nearly died reading this.
They claimed it was a half-bath in the listing.
cwthree, I also laughed out loud reading your footnote. 
“Half-bath?” If you don’t hook anything up, that’s considered a half-bath? That’s…creative.
Just a month into the semester and I’ve already reported three cases of plagiarism from one of my college classes. :mad: I told everyone in every class, as I do every semester, NOT to copy and paste material from the internet into a blank document, print it out, put their name on it and pretend it’s original. And then they do it anyway.
I’ll trade you–like Moonlitherial, our passwords have a forced change every 30 days.
So our group has this new…acquaintance, who is always asking me and my other friend Lacy* for diet advice. It makes us very uncomfortable. Well, she moreso asks me for exercise advice (since I’m the gym rat) and asks Lacy what to eat since Lacy is a dietitian. Last night out she asked if bacon was “okay”. She saw Lacy drinking a few beers (Lacy runs 10 miles a day) so she assumed it was fine for her to drink too - pineapple juice and SoCo :smack:. She asked me what I would eat if I were eating and I honestly replied “an all veggie sandwich on wheat.” She ordered ciabatta, bacon and ham. I was polite and avoided giving her real responses to her other questions because let’s face it, she’s not looking for real answers (ETA: from us). She’s already seeing a doctor for her weight. She’s a sweet girl who is fun and very caring but it’s uncomfortable when she looks to us for food validation.
Today Lacy sent me this video and said “This is what I deal with every day.”
It’s pretty hilarious. Entirely SFW. Link. There are some real gems like "“The gummi bears are fat free. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.”
*not her real name
ETA: vivalostwages, do you flunk them in the course or just the paper/assignment? My future MIL said she used to flunk them in the course but she was told by admins that she was flunking too many people :smack: :smack: :smack:
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