My family is on their way back home to North Carolina and made a pit stop at my Grandma Lux's house. I remember as a little kid going and playing at my grandma's house in Tennessee. I remember the gated the community and the big hills that we'd drive over. (Looking back now they probably weren't that big...when you're 5 it's a little different.) Her house was on top of a giant mountain and in a very wooded area. It wasn't a big house, but big enough to have her and my grandpa live there with room for visitors from her 5 children and many grand kids.
I would always go explore in the woods, make a cool fort or just see what's out there. The room that I would stay in smelled like moth balls and looked like it was from the 50's. Two twin beds in the room with really old furniture. My favorite part of the house was the circular stairs to the basement. We weren't allowed to play on them and Grandma Lux would freak out when the little kids would go down them. I think she thought that we'd fall through the cracks or something, but when she wasn't looking we played on them. But the part of her house I thought was coolest as a little kid was a phone in her bathroom.
How convenient!! You didn't have to do anything, you could be hanging out in the bathroom doing what you're doing AND talk on the phone while doing your business. I guess you'd have to be quiet about it, but you have to admit we've all gone to the bathroom while talking to someone on the phone at least once in our life. I have yet to ask her why she put a phone right next to the toilet. It's probably due to when my grandpa was dealing with his cancer to get a hold of someone. I'm going to think that it was there for the convenience of it all. But I guess that's what we can do with our cell phones now, just make sure you don't drop your phone in the toilet...that might be a mess.
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