Don't Smell the Toilet

Okay, so you know how your mom tells you stories that you say "oh mom that never happened?"  Well here is the story that Sydney will NEVER admit to remembering and I will laugh each and every time I tell it to her boyfriends, good girlfriends, future "loves of her life"(that's a whole 'bother blog), the husband, my grandkids, the in-laws, oh, the list goes on.

So, Sydney and I were at a restaurant recently and we, of course, had to go to the bathroom just as I was ready to put the fork to my mouth (ugh, cold mommy meal again).  I digress . . .We head to the bathroom and finish what we went to do when my fabulously smart, highly intelligent, and yes, if I haven't told you, extremely bathroom cleanliness conscious daughter looks into the toilet to see the deodorizer that the restaurant has placed in this particular commode.  I should put here that we were not necessarily in a 5-star restaurant - AHEM!  Anyway, she goes to point to ask "what is that" and of course, in my famously motherly fashion I go to explain the the toilet has something like perfume and the restaurant puts it there to keep the toilet clean and keep the bathroom smelling pretty (again, motherly fashion of communicating bathroom smells).  So, with that descriptive and commentary I proceed to head out the door to go wash hands and hope that my meal has some warmth to it when I turn to drag encourage Sydney out of the toilet and all of a sudden I just see her head deep in the toilet, doing what????  SMELLING THE DEODORIZER! <PAUSE FOR YOUR VISUAL AND TEARS OF LAUGHTER>

Needless to say, I immediately went to, first, avoid her hair from touching the deodorized toilet water and second, to get her nose out of a public restroom.  At this point you should insert a visual into your head of a dazed and confused 5-year old and her mother, equally confused on what in the world would make you smell the toilet?  It didn't take long before the explanation started that she wanted to smell the perfume to see if it smelled like the perfume I wore and to see where the color came from.  Now, I'm laughing.

The conversation didn't last long and it was pretty simple in the end - you DON'T SMELL THE TOILET because the perfume isn't as good as mommies (or at least I hope).