Tag: restroom

• Double Doors, Automatic Toilets, and Germaphobes – Thoughts from February 1, 2026 – Part 2

  

  When last we left the mentally ill rantings of the author of this two-part article, he was explaining OLD (obsessive-logical disorder). I was describing the double doors at the top of the stairs at work. If none of this sounds familiar, go back and read Part 1 of this two-part article. I established in it…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 14, 2026

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  2026, automatic toilets, automatic towel dispenser, automatically flushes again, backpack, breakroom, contradicting rules, courtesy flush, crowded restroom, double doors, fix the situation, germaphobe, half of lights off, I’m glad you asked, illogical behavior, illogical flushing, keep to the right, kind of right either way, lining up doors, living in caves, lockers, logical questions, logical reason, logical side of my brain, mentally ill rantings, obsessive-logical disorder, OLD, paper towels on the ground by the door, Part 2, restroom, rude behavior, stalls, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, two-part article, urinals

• Restrooms, Doing Nothing, and Annoying Habits – Thoughts from December 10, 2025

  

  It’s been a while since I wrote about just my thoughts. This thought takes us back to the restroom. It’s based on a little bit of actual events, but it’s more of a general thinking around the restroom. Humans have been using restrooms for a relatively brief time in human history. I guess it shouldn’t…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 2, 2026

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  2025, acting weird in restrooms, annoyance factor, backside burps, bodily noises, cleanup, courtesy flush, creepy, drinking plenty of water, Elvis, fiber in your diet, food with no nutritional value, hearing only breathing, heart attack on the toilet, heavy breathing, human history, judgemental blowhard, just my thoughts, on phone at the urinal, phones in the restroom, playing video games on the toilet, regulate, restroom, restroom silence, restroom stall, restrooms amplify sound, silence is my enemy, sit on the toilet and not do anything, something medically wrong, straining hard, talking through speakerphone, texting clicks, thinking about the restroom, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, toilet-related activities, urinal

• Route 66, Peggy Sue’s Diner, and Home with the Cats – Thoughts from September 21, 2024 – Last Day Part 2

  

  Now that we knew the Bagdad Café didn’t have food, we had to pick a new place to eat. I asked, “Aren’t we driving by Peggy Sue’s Diner? We could eat there.” Patti said we were, so we did. We arrived at about 4:30 pm at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner in Yermo, California. This was…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 7, 2025

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  2024, 50s attire, Bagdad Cafe, ball-shaped tiger, baseball with feet, baseballs, big-eyed monkey, cats, cats sniffing everything, curiosity and fear, Eddie World, fridge magnets, fried chicken, fried food, gift shop, ice cream sundae tower, Javin slow loris, mannequins, missing home, must-have plushes, not a food-critic blog, Patti, Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner, Peggy Sue’s Diner, pictures from the trip, plushes, post vacation, purple dragon, restroom, self-control, shot glasses, Sit whereever you like, sitting with cats, Southern fried chicken, souvenirs, stuffed animal addiction, stuffed animals, stuffed cowboy at a fake urinal, thoughts, vacation Brian, Yermo California

• Route 66, the Bagdad Cafe, and Tourists – Thoughts from September 21, 2024 – Last Day Part 1

  

  Patti and I woke up for the last time in our hotel room in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Tonight, we would be home and sleep in our own bed. The end of our vacation was hours and not days away. We drive back today but we still have a few more places to visit. The…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 30, 2025

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  2024, Arizona, Bagdad Cafe, Bagdad Cafe movie, bring crowds with us, bus fulls of tourists, California, Calling You, food service, French tourists, Historic Bagdad Cafe, in the desert, Japanese tourists, Jevetta Steele, Lake Havasu City, Newberry Springs, no internet, off-ramps, Patti, restroom, restroom walls, Route 66, Route 66 historical destination, Route 66 shield, thoughts, tourist pictures, US flags

• Windshields, Pig Men, and Random Clams – Thoughts from July 16 and 17, 2024

  

  July 16, 2024 I would like to talk about an issue that is of great importance to me. You may already know what I’m going to talk about. Yes, the thing that disturbs me most when I’m driving is having a dirty windshield. We’ve all been there. Bugs die, birds poop, and dirt gathers on…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 10, 2025

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  2024, bitch-fest, caring about other people, caring about women, Cartoon Network, Chartreuse!, dirty windshields, eating raw vegetables, Emilio Estevez, fart after eating, fart jokes, farting while sleeping, horrible traditions, how to be men, invisible windshield, issues, literary reference, Martin Sheen, men are pigs, Patti, random clam, random things!, restroom, seeting the toilet seat up, self-deprecating humor, summer of our discontent, teach men to be good people, thoughts, vegan diet, weird animation, windshield washer fluid, windshield wipers, yoga, YouTube

• Dessert for Breakfast and Restroom Restrictions, Thoughts from June 18 and 25, 2024

  

  June 18, 2024 I must go back to four days ago. It was June 14, and we ate at Super Sushi in Redlands. We took the leftovers home. Patti also bought two pounds of tiramisu while we were out before we went for sushi. I had some later that night, but Patti had some the…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 13, 2025

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  2024, accepted restrictions, accepting reality, age restrictions, anniversary, breathing heavily, Cheerios, choos wisely, dessert for breakfast, grunting and straining noises, justifying bad behavior, layer of sugar, leftovers, men are gross, men sitting down to pee, mini vacation, Mini Vacation Land, neutralizing smell, observations in the restroom, Patti, Redlands, restroom, restroom habits, restroom options, restroom talk, restrooming, stomach problems, sugary cereals, Super Shushi, thoughts, tiramisu, unhealthy habits, urinal, weight problem, you make the choices in your life

• Experiencing Things not Made for Me, Including Silence – Thoughts from December 3 and 6, 2023

  

  December 3, 2023 English is my first language. I don’t really have a second language, unless you count Nerd as a language. Sometimes, I wish I spoke another language well enough to have conversations, but not enough to put in the time to actually do it. I have delved deeply into English enough to keep…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 22, 2024

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  2023, a good person, audio examples, audiobook, autobiography, Barbra Streisand, belief, bribing our kids, Christmas, Christmas myths, common ground, diverse people, English language, enjoy the fantasies, experiencing things not made for me, good at urination, good for goodness sake, history books, hypocrites, interesting conversations, interesting people, interests, kids watch what you do, libraries, lying to kids, movies, music, nerd language, people disturbed by silence, people’s stories, restroom, Santa, Santa Claus, second language, silence, silence is unnatural, silence makes me anxtious, silent library, silent restroom, silent room, songs, straight white man, telling kids about Santa, The Nightmare Before Christmas, thoughts, toilet, treating strangers badly, urinal

• Restrooms, Dirty Cars, and Lessons on Lying – Thoughts from August 30 and September 3, 2023

  

  August 30, 2023 And now for my favorite way to start a TfL paper. No, I didn’t have a stroke while typing. I’m trying out a shortened version of Thoughts from Life. Don’t worry. You probably won’t ever see it again. Oh yeah, I haven’t even told you what is my favorite way to start…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 20, 2024

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  100+ temperatures, 2023, ABDS (always be doing something, acting like a weirdo in the restroom, being a good person, bringing a magazine into the restroom, clearly stated sin, constant sore throat, dad was homosexual, dusty car interior, ethical lessons, favorite way to start, forgiving any sin, group discriminating against members, hard time peeing, Irish Catholic, just sitting on the toilet, making up sins, missing information, Molly Shannon, next paragraph, on the phone on the toilet, power cleaning on my car, religion as identity, religious thinking, restroom, restroom behavior, shy in the restroom, sitting on the toilet doing nothing, sniffing in a stall, stealing, sweating, teaching young people to lie, TfL, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, untouched grossness, urinal, weirdos

• Disposable Wipes and Freeway Rants – Thoughts from April 12, 2023

  

  I haven’t talked about my toilet habits in a while, so let’s do that. At home, I’ve been using disposable wipes. I use two disposable wipes and much less toilet paper. In this way, I’m single handedly saving the environment. Okay, enough with the jokes. They simply get me cleaner sooner than toilet paper alone.…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 7, 2024

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  2023, advertising for Christianity, classes on using restroom, clogging hotel toilet, dash-cam, discriminating against non-religious people, disposable wipes, freeway rants, God Bless America, me singing with songs, non-religiously affiliated people, not good business model, person at crosswalk, pooping at work, rant over, restroom, spare time, starting a rant, storage business, thoughts, toilet habits, toilet paper, usable footage, vacation, vehicle approaching a stop sign, videos, waiting for pedestrian, waving people to go, wealthy Christians, wet paper towels, wet wipes

• Zipper Malfunction – Thoughts from March 25, 2023

  

  Something happened today that will only be entertaining with time. I was in the restroom at work and I zipped up my pants to find that only one side of the teeth was still connected to the zipper. Trying to connect the zipper back to the other teeth while I was standing at the urinal…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 23, 2024

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  2023, changing room, costuming, covered the hole, embarrassed, entertaining with time, humor, laughing, loaner clothes, loaner pair of pants, open fly, picking up people, restroom, restroom stall, safety pin, sweating, thoughts, toilet, urinal, walking stiffly, wardrobe malfunction, work, zip up my pants, zipper malfunction, zipper teeth