Don't Drink the Water...Out of the Bidet!

We have a bathroom in every bedroom of the house, and all but one of them has a bidet. We haven't used them yet, and maybe we never will. It's an American thing I suppose. I was at Bunco last month, and the topic of bidets came up. For the most part, the Americans here don't seem to use them...at least not for their intended purpose. My friend, Tiff, used hers for a planter when they lived in Germany. Another friend uses hers to store extra rolls of toilet paper. I use mine as a toilet-side table, setting my diet coke, my book or even my towel on it, as needed. I found, purely by coincidence that Seven had been contemplating using his as a water fountain! Yikes!

I don't know why I was in Seven's bathroom, but I was. I think he was getting ready to take a shower and needed help with his shower door. It likes to stick. Anyway, we were waiting for the water in the shower to warm up when all of the sudden he said, "I'm thirsty." Then, like it was the most normal thing in the world, he opened the lid of the bidet and reached for the handle. "What are you doing?" I shouted. He said, "What? I was just gonna get a drink out of the faucet. John drinks right out of the faucet on the sink." I then informed him that while drinking from the sink is poor form, it is totally different than drinking from a bidet. I told him that a bidet is for cleaning your...well, he got the picture. At any rate, once I explained what a bidet was used for, he said that he had never drank from it before and this was going to be the first time. I don't know if that's true or not, but I decided that I'm going to believe it was. I guess it's not that bad considering we never use it. It gets cleaned every week, just like the toilet, and the water comes from the same source as the kitchen sink, but still...It's the principle of the thing. I have standards...I don't let my dog drink out of the toilet and I refuse to let my kids drink out of the bidet. I might just have a shot at that Mother of the Year thing yet...Hasta luego...