Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Naturo is the Newest Development in Constructing Closet Bowls

My husband tried in vain to do some work on his laptop at the dining room table, but was inveigled into a conversation about turn-of-the-century toilet bowls.

DD: "Ooohhh...(demurely)...'Closet Bowls'.

DDH: "A bowl in a closet?"

DD: "Nooo, honey, this is a new innovation--it's a, y'know, CLOSET bowl."

DDH: "Oh, a water closet bowl."

DD: "Nooo!--even that is TMI, and this was a non-TMI age. This is a new technology. It has a slanted seat, for hygiene!"

DDH: "Hm." (The sound of rapt fascination, so I press on).

DD: "Look--'The slanted Seat pleases Physicians.' See, even the logo is slanted--'NA-Tu-ro'. This is very High-Tech!"

DDH: "Except it's lower tech on one side."

3 comments :

James said...

I want one. Where do I go to buy it?

Dusty D said...

It's right there, silly: O. A. Hankinson, 16 N. Huron Street. Until recently it was the Alfredo Martini restaurant. Near the intersection with Michigan Ave. there.

Google street view:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%2216+n.+huron+street%22+ypsilanti&ie=UTF8&ll=42.241195,-83.613124&spn=0.012486,0.032315&z=15&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=42.241308,-83.613105&panoid=WM5_qVqXFeF-E7mLpMd0nw&cbp=12,51.2,,0,5

That's where health-conscious Ypsilantians went to get their Naturos, back in the day.

Katy said...

"The great American habit of physics?" I never would have survived in an age of such code-speak and euphemism.