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[Sheila Broderick <>]

I'm busy.  Seriously.  But when I opened the mail at the office today and
saw a letter from ladysavers.com, I was intrigued.  Lady saver.  Hummmmm.
Apparently, our savior, MIKE Mercer has invented something that is
guaranteed to solve that pesky "falling in the toilet after a man uses it
and fails  to put the seat down" problem.  Send Mike a mere $6.95, and Mike
will send you 5....count them...5 stickers to put on your toilet seat (see
the attached scan of the letter and sticker) reminding ...and I quote....
the "younger (and older) boy(s) learning the ropes of toilet-seat etiquette"
to put the seat down.

So I read the letter once, twice, three times.  Gave it to my colleagues,
sure that this must be some kind of joke.  They read it again and again.
No, it's not a joke.  Mike says that falling in the toilet because "someone"
(hummm wonder who that someone is) left the seat up is "ever woman's
greatest problem."

Ladies, look no further, Mike has developed a solution for us.  Again, what
would we do without these men to solve our problems for us?

I cannot help but think that it is no coincidence that two weeks after John
McCain announces Sarah Palin as his VP, I get a letter like this in the
mail.  But that's enough writing. I need to run home now, get dinner
started, put my pearls and pumps on and my apron and set my calendar back to
1950.  Anyone seen my valium?
-- 
Sheila Broderick, LCSW
Duke University Women's Center
126 Few Fed
Box 90920
919.684.3897
919.681.6885 (fax)
http://wc.studentaffairs.duke.edu