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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

PTUA

While cleaning bathrooms the other day, I stumbled across an obvious sign that someone in the family needs some serious improvement with their PTUA. By definition, I'm able to eliminate female family members and visitors and, since it was the second-floor hall bathroom where the evidence was found, I'm able to eliminate "casual" guests.

Now, I've had this discussion with my son on several occasions and made it clear that if the PTUA isn't there, you need to sit down. To my pleasure (and surprise), he's actaully taken this to heart and has been pretty good about heeding the warning so it was with a bit of mystery that I discovered the evidence to this poor PTUA.
While cleaning up the aftermath, I gave it some thought and it suddenly occured to me... he recently had a friend spend the night! Could it be that this failure of PTUA was the work of his friend? At this point, I decide to give my son the benefit of the doubt and "pin it" on his friend. Now, I just have to figure out how to talk to his friend's Dad about it...
Oh, what's PTUA, you ask? OK, we're all adults here, right? PTAU stands for Penis to Toilet Urinary Accuracy.