Do you ever do something that you never in your life thought you’d do?

This thought came after reading Much More than Mommy’s post about IT happening in someone’s driveway. I read the story and thought, I don’t think I could do that. I think I would shit my pants and drive home, the upholstery in my car be damned.

You should never ever think that. Because we all do things that we never think we would do.

The other morning at work I got the same tummy rumblings that MMTM mentions…you know the kind. The three-second-warning kind. The kind where you know that in four seconds, if you’re not in a bathroom you’re going to be looking for a potted plant. So I make a beeline to the nearest bathroom and (thankfully) there was no one else in the other stalls. All is well until I realize there is no toilet paper.

Shit.

So I wait until someone else comes into the bathroom and mercifully takes the stall next to mine. And I made a plea to her as another woman, and asked her to pass me some toilet paper. Which was so awkward that I tweeted about it. So she passes me two squares, and then she was gone. Can I say it again, she gave me TWO. SQUARES. OF TOILET PAPER.

I used the squares, and then I’m sitting there, wondering, Do I wait for someone else to come in here?? Its a quiet bathroom in a remote location- I chose it for exactly that reason!! Do I make a run for another stall, and risk someone walking in the door just in time to witness that?! This is my workplace, I can’t risk it, I already can hardly look my boss in the eyes after the Luggage Incident!!

So finally, I tap into the resourceful girl that my Momma B. raised me to be, and I used the cardboard toilet paper rolls.

And then I flushed them.

Have I ever mentioned how much I appreciate industrial toilets? The cardboard rolls were gone in a flush, and I will be forever grateful.

The whole thing was so surreal, I tweeted about it again.

If you had told me this morning that I’d be using, and then flushing, cardboard rolls in the work bathroom, I’d never have believed you… But I have learned, never say never.

What is the one thing you never ever thought you’d do…but did?