“Whore’s Bath?”

Excuse me…I thought you said horse bath.

How I would mistake these two? I think it’s all about the accent.

Just to give people the jest of the story my plumbing failed yet again this morning…and when I say morning I mean 5am. Sewage came up in my shower.

Fabulous!

So to skip all the in between, it came down to how me and my roommate were going to have a shower…with out a shower.

I was on my cell phone talking to him and he said, “I guess I’ll just have to take a horse’s bath.” I thought I didn’t hear him correctly.

Okay…well’s he’s from Indiana so I don’t know what the fuck they do there. Horse’s bath it is for him.

Me…well I was just going to take a “spit bath” as my grandmother called it and Mindy reminded me of it when this next conversation ensued.

When I called Mindy I recounted what was happening and told her what Robert said, “Mindy, he’s going to take a horse bath.”

“Oh yeah I’ve had to do that before.”

“A horse bath?” I said.

“A whore’s bath.” She said.

“Yeah a horse bath.” I said.

You see where this is leading don’t you?

“No India, a WHORE’S bath.”

My brain finally wrapped it self around that one.

“Oh…”

Still had no clue what it meant.

(Side note…Mindy has had bad plumbing too. Just to get that straight.)

I was readily informed by both parties what it exactly meant.

“A whore in the olden days use to clean herself between johns. That’s called a whore’s bath.”

Well that would explain it…I felt as if I was bathed in a brothel and put out to dry.

As Mindy said, you learn something new every day…and she is so right.

Even if it’s the simplest of things.

I can’t even describe all of the jokes that went back and fourth.

It made me smile.

Then we have Mindy’s dishwasher…ahh…another blog.

Today totally freaked out so many people.

It was fabulous!

Now I must be off…to take a Whore’s bath.

Wish me luck…it’s my first time.