Standard or Automatic?

When it comes to potties (sp?), for us the answer is clear: an automatic flush strikes terror into the heart of my toilet-training toddler. This became painfully clear while using the Thruway rest-stop bathrooms with Anna for the first time on our trip to Rochester.

Neither of us were prepared for what was to happen. She lept off the potty and screamed bloody murder. Now she regards new potties with even more suspicion, and acts much like someone trying to size up the condition of a used car: she makes a slow lap around, looking at it from every angle, not touching it at first and then giving it a good kick in the tires (or bowl, in this case) to see how it will react.

Thankfully, at the next stop we were able to use a handicapped bathroom which--hallelujah!--had a manual flush. As illogical as that may be.

Anyway: she may have been dehydrated by the time we got to Rochester (heh heh a joke! a joke!), but we were 2 for 2 (well, 1.5 for 2 considering the auto-flush related leakage) and had no potty related accidents in the car.

Anyway was quite funny going into the rest stop with Anna. Even thought she had been in them before, it was like a whole new world to her. We walk into the building and she's like: "Is there a potty in here Mommy? I don't see a potty. I don't think they have a potty in here."

And then, overheard by the person in the stall next to ours: "I'm going to whip you now! whip! whip!"

Right, that would be Anna, holding the strap from my shoulder bag, getting silly and vocal while I am trying to use the potty myself.

Hopefully the folks in the bathroom stalls on either side of us were from NYC. Then they've definitely heard worse :)