The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33756   Message #454397
Posted By: Bill D
02-May-01 - 10:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Silly/Stupid Product Descriptions
Subject: RE: BS: Silly/Stupid Product Descriptions
well, 'spaw, some products like that NEED labels. When I was in college, I worked for a time at Building & Grounds, and got acquainted with all the people who kept the physical plant going.

One day, the head plumber came in with a piece of paper in his hand grining and shaking his head. Why?

..well...we had a new Fine Arts building, and it seems that after several years, it was apparent that the ballet and other dance classes were over 90% attended by women, and they had built restrooms for both men & women at the dance studio. So, they decided the men could use the restroom down the hall a ways, and they would let the women have both the close ones...nice, huh?

.....so...the plumber reads this paper to us, which turns out to be a maintainance request from the new ballet teacher. "dear sir, regarding the new restroom at the dance studio-- the girls really like the footwashers, but we wonder if it would be possible to pipe warm water to them?"

Yep...floor length urinals, to expensive to tear out....and the plumber had to call this woman and keep his face straight while he explained that, no, he could NOT run warm water to the footwashers.

I suspect it is for people like that dance teacher that those product labels are written.