Amen, girlfriend.
For all the drunk ladies in the bar who don’t have a good enough girlfriend to tell them?
I fell in love when I saw the message over this bar bathroom during Blissdom 09 Photo Walk.
I can’t tell you how many times I can remember going into a bar bathroom to pee and seeing women madly obsessing over themselves in front of the mirrors. Applying makeup, fixing hair, adjusting clothing, etc.
Most of the time, I was stumbling in there half drunk, hitting the stalls, about to burst. (You know, once you break the seal on a drinking night, you’re screwed, friends.) Then I’d have to wait for the latest Cover Girl to finish her application before I could wash my hands.
And I’ve got nothing against anyone checking their appearance or light grooming. But what I’ve seen in the bathroom so very often has gone way beyond that.
I doubt the guys are doing this over in their bathroom. What gives?
I think every bathroom mirror in the world should say at least the first part of what’s above the one in the picture.
“Stop staring. You’re beautiful.”
It’s true.
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Gypsy at Heart
I think anything would probably look good through blurred vision.
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Terri - teelgee
Amen and hallelujah!
Red Lotus Mama
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! That is AWESOME!
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CheekySweetie
That *so* beats my flying cock and balls in the men’s bathroom at a biker bar photo. *chuckle*
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Sarcastic Mom, aka Lotus
@CheekySweetie,
hahahaha! That sounds like true art, now.
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Michelle
So true.
Shame we don’t always remember it.
Veronica
Yes!
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Ed (zoesdad)
I doubt the guys are doing this over in their bathroom….
Hell–we seldom even wash our hands!
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Sarcastic Mom, aka Lotus
@Ed (zoesdad),
I KNEW IT!
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Brittany
Amen.
And I am pretty sure they only things guys do in the bathroom is buy condoms and try not to pee on their shoes.
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AnnD
I effin’ LOVE LOVE LOVE that!!!
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Beth F
That is pretty funny!
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lceel
Absolutely correct. And chances are – the more he’s been drinking, the more beautiful you are.
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pam
Oh I so agree. Amen, sistah…
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Maggie's Mind
Yep. So true. What a cool find!
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Mrs. Schmitty
Wow, I wish that were above some of the mirrors I looked into back in my early twenties.
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SingleParentDad
We have a similar one in the mens’ room. It says;
Stop staring, she’ll probably have you arrested.
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Sarcastic Mom, aka Lotus
@SingleParentDad,
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Nice.
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Kelly
I love you…will you marry me?
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Jill
That is awesome! I would like to write that on my teenage nieces’ mirrors at home as well.
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Maureen
What a great saying, and the perfect place to post it!! I enjoyed your commentary, and related to it as well (although in my MUCH younger years!).
My WW post is up at:
http://beingchronicallyillisapill.blogspot.com/2009/03/wordless-wednesday-inside-sunken-forest.html
Happy WW!
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Domestic Extraordinaire
so flippin’ awesome.
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Dory
That is hawsum! Next bar I go to, I’m gonna put a marker in my back pocket and write that on the mirror.
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Sarah
Oh I definitely so totally agree!!! *lol* I know a few bars that should be in…like all of them
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Tabitha
I love it. And I can’t even TELL you how many times I’ve witnessed those girls in the bar. Yeah, I’m guilty of being one of them on a couple of occasions, but most of the time I’d go in, pee, wash up, and glance at myself and think, “Well, I sure look like I’m having fun.” and go right back to dancing. Life’s too short to spend it obsessing over how I look or how many dudes I can give my number to.
(Might also be a bad idea now that I’m getting ready to get married.)
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Colleen - Mommy Always Wins
That IS an awesome sign. It should just be on all mirrors, period.
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nottryingforaboy
That is the best thing ever written on a bathroom wall. Well, aside from my husbands’ phone number. It is how we met, after all.
Kidding.
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Tricia
If only this were the message every little girl learned we might just stand a chance. Great photo.
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Secret Mom Thoughts
I love that sign. So true.
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Sam
That is something to remember. I think i’m taking a marker to my friends house the next time i visit to remind her.
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Zandor
That is awesome. I kind of want to write that on mirrors everywhere I go.
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kompostela
So true:))))
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Mollie
If only every girl could see this. If that were the case, I think a little less self hating would go on in the world.
Loralee
I probably could have used mirror the ONE time I actually went to a bar. It was the first time I got plastered and was on a date with a guy I now refer to as “But Heebies Dude”, so YES. TOTALLY COULD HAVE USED THIS SAYING AT THE TIME. AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY TRUE.
But I think I would have been way too drunk and preoccupied with my bewbs to be able to read it.
(Things like the above are why I will have cocktail tickets to give away at BlogHer. Heh.)
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Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com
A few months ago, I went to a restaurant for lunch that was CLEARLY some sort of hot spot at night. In the bathroom, right above the mirror, there was a poster of a pin-up girl. And next to that, it said “You might not ever look like this, but we still think you’re beautiful.” Signed with a picture of the waitstaff.
AWESOME.
This really reminds me of that.
habanerogal
I’m totally one like you who just wants to wash her hands and make sure that there is no T.P. on my shoes and get the hell outta there. The worst is when the hairspray comes out, oh am I dating myself here? Ya that was the 80′s
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bobbie lou
I am missing something? Why did you take that little kid in the picture, into a bar bathroom?
Sarcastic Mom, aka Lotus
@bobbie lou,
That little kid is my son. He had too many beers and tequila shots at the bar and had to pee really bad. He really can’t hold his liquor – TOTAL amateur.
Just kidding.
This was during the day, on a Group Photo Walk after the Blissdom 09 Blogging Conference (group of photographers/bloggers walk an area and take shots, then compare them later). We were walking downtown Nashville.
If you’d like to, you can see the rest of my shots, and those of the other ladies, here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1031041@N23/pool/
The bar is not active during the day, rather, they sell burgers and fries on the restaurant side. (In fact, they advertise the world’s best burger!)
My son had a wet diaper that needed changing, and it was either in this bathroom standing on the sink counter (bar bathroom = no changing station, ya dig?) or on the city street.
Make sense?
I saw the wall writing while in there, and took a photo.
Twitter: LotusCarroll
maggie, dammit
LOVE IT. Thanks for passing it on.
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witchypoo
We should all have it tattooed on our foreheads backwards, then we can see it in any mirror.
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Hockeyman
The mens room messages are certainly not as positive.
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Momo Fali
Love this. I was not the primper at the mirror, but rather the one who was always in a hurry to get back to the dance floor…and the beer.
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Rachelskirts
Love, love, love. I think all mirrors should come equipped with beautiful messages like that above them.
Talina
I love it! Great advice for us all huh?
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i love that !!!!!
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jenny
I must admit, I was scanning the comments thinking “I wonder if anyone is going to give her any shit for taking her toddler into a bar.” Because I am cynical like that. For shame, woman! Ha! Not that I care, as I’m the one in the check out lane at Target with a kid saying “Mommy, aren’t you out of wine?” “Why yes, love, thank you for reminding me.”
perpstu
So true, though I have always been more of a drunk and stumble into the stall girl than a reapply the lipgloss at every turn girl too!
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Name (required)
Interesting what appears to be important to you in a relationship: financial wealth or sexual prowess. Good luck with your future. You’re going to need it! (Just don’t act surprised if you’re miserable half the time.)
Lotus
@Name (required),
1) I didn’t write that message over the mirror, I just photographed it.
2) If you would READ the article I wrote to accompany it, you would realize the part of the message I actually found important for women to take away from it.
The post was about the importance of something far different than financial wealth or sexual prowess.
As far as I’m concerned, that last bit of the message over the mirror was just meant by the author of it to be humorous. That’s how I took it, anyway. Check and see if you have a sense of that; I’m guessing you don’t. Either that, or there’s something lurking under the surface for you, a sensitive or sore subject, and this struck a nerve. If you knew me in the least, you’d never make an idiotic statement like that about what I find important or my future. (And again, if you actually READ the post, it might help.)
And if you think even HALF of the men in a bar hitting on the women who spend the most time in front of the mirrors for them are interested in a RELATIONSHIP, then you have an incredibly naive idea of what’s going on.
Real relationships, the ones that matter, don’t require a woman to worry about how she looks such that she obsesses over it in a bar bathroom mirror.
Get a clue.
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Christie
I love that!
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Jennifer H
I’m not promoting vandalism (oh wait, maybe I am)…but what if women started writing this on walls in bars. Maybe just walls where there’s tons of stuff written already.
Best thing I’ve seen all day.
(And your response to Name (required) was perfect.
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Lotus
I am TOTALLY okay with promoting vandalism in this case.
Though I really would suggest we all write just the first 4 words and leave it at that. I think that is really the good part of the message.
Don’t you just love it? I am feeling like maybe I’ll start carrying a black Sharpie everywhere I go now…
*wink*
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ourcrookedtree
Love it!