monkeys and marbles

i had a rare chance to have a nice, quiet, relaxing bath last night…well…as relaxing as it can be for a 5 foot 10 inch tall woman taking a bath in a tub built for no one taller than 5 feet.

anyway, after my bath i noticed that i had a couple of toe nails that needed clipping.

am i really going to tell this story?

so i grabbed the honkin’ industrial sized toe nail clippers, perched my foot up on the toilet seat and proceeded to clip.   i don’t usually clip my toe nails over the toilet…but for some reason it seemed like a good idea last night.

i can’t believe i’m actually telling this story!

so i was clipping away, when i lost my grip on the clippers.  splash!  they fell right to the very bottom of the toilet bowl!

oh, this is so embarrassing!

the unfortunate part was that i had peed in the toilet before getting the bright idea to clip my toe nails over said toilet…and i hadn’t flushed.  why waste the water when i was going to want to flush my toe nail clippings after, right?

did i actually just write that?  oh. my. God.

i just stood there and stared down into the toilet bowl.  how the hell am i going to get them out?  i’m not sticking my hand down there!

i sheepishly called hubby into the bathroom and showed him what had happened.  he just looked at me with a grin on his face, shook his head and laughed.  ya…this kind of thing happens to me all the time.  i have a way of turning an ordinary task into a big event.

so hubby goes downstairs to find something to help with the extrication of the clippers while i went over the whole thing in my head….why would i clip my toe nails over the toilet when i had never done that before????

when hubby came back into the bathroom, he was carrying a pair of disposable chopsticks that had come with our last Chinese take-out meal.  with a little ingenuity and some fancy chopstick acrobatics, he expertly pulled the clippers out of the toilet.

phfffft…..i’m such a tool.

anyone know how to properly sterilize toe nail clippers after they’ve been in a toilet bowl?   ’cause i don’t think they’ll ever been clean enough for me!