Hang on to your SUNGLASSES!!

[MaryFMac]

Yes, we all know to hang onto our hats and glasses on the rides, but I lost my sunglasses in one place I never expected to lose anything of value: the bathroom.

I was using the restroom next to Merchant of Venus. I had hung my sunglasses on my shirt collar, and turned to press the "override auto flush" button when autoflush kicks in, the glasses fall, and WHOOSH.

Bye bye, sunglasses.

These were no delicate frames either; large tortoise shell types made popular by pop stars as of late.

Men: This might not be quite as problematic if you're apt to using the urinals.

I guess this warning extends to small digital cameras, water bottles and small children too!

 

[snowglobe girl]

A co-worker had this happen with his cell phone!!! I was too afraid to ask him what he was doing with it while doing his business!!!

I'm bad to put my sunglasses on the top of my head and then bend over for something and they fall off, so I could easily see this happening to me...

 

[Lorelai]

Oh my!! I have never thought of that! I can totally see how that can happen though. Now Nemo & Friends are the proud owners of some big tortoise shell glasses!

 

[patsal]

I could totally see this happening to me!

 

[poohpcgirl]

Okay, mine is worse than that. It was my eyeglasses. It happened when I was younger...
Mom was so mad at me.......
And I had broken my spare pair the week before.
I am amazed I lived past 14..
rofl

 

[gradtchr]

No fun at all! Disney is not the place to be without the shades.

 

[slo]

What a bummer!!!

 

[MaryFMac]

I picked the most fashionable pair off that rack that exists in every gift shop. We even made a special trip over to dtd before our dinner at CG to hunt down a nicer pair, but those "nicer" pairs averaged 300 dollars.

We have the "BSI" (before sunglasses incident) pictures and ASI pictures, the last picture taken before losing them to the great septic system of mickey mouse, and several pictures of me emerging from restrooms with sunglasses intact.

Oh well. I guess it's a memory!!

 

[tedisney]

That actually happened to me, too - at the bathrooms right across from Star Tours.

I was seated, with my sunglasses in my shorts pockets. The autoflush flushed as I started to stand up, and right as it finished flushing, my sunglasses shot out of my pocket and into the (now clean) water.

My hand shot into the bowl so fast that the entire frame had not yet submerged. It was a total reflex move - I might have just left them there had I taken the time to think about them in the bowl.

I washed them up quite well, did the same with my hands, and came out of the bathroom laughing out loud. The laughter meant that I had to explain what happened to the other people waiting for me.

 

[GoofyDisney]

Gee...thanks...I have now had to relive my real-life nightmare from the 5th grade.

Sorry I didn't email you directly before you left and explain what we in our family call the "Mr. Austin" Law of Physics that says if you have glasses/sunglasses perched on any place on your body, i.e., shirt, head, nose, AND you are using a public/school toilet, that undoubtedly the said glasses will be pulled by gravity as you lean over to button-up and/or flush...they will fall directly into the water ONLY when said flushing activity is already in progress...they will fall into the flushing water, fold neatly, an disappear forever.

Welcome to my world.

 

[LadyDulcinea1]

I better be careful as I also have the habit of both wearing my sunglasses on my head AND having them jump off at random moments