I don’t get Jon’s fascination for toilet bowl brushes but they keep vanishing.

Seems I’m always in the dollar store buying another one.

I have no idea where they go. Other than it’s proper use, what would a person do with a bowl brush?

The most recent one I bought was cradled in a white bowl shaped container. With a wish and a prayer that it might work, I printed a large Sharpie marker message on opposite sides,

“Please do not take! Need this for toilet cleaning.”

It stayed under Jon’s bathroom sink longer than any previous but a few days ago when I went in there to clean it was missing. After looking around and not finding it, I retrieved a brush from another bathroom to get the job done.

Sunday afternoon Jon came out of his room with bags packed – a small computer bag on wheels and a plastic grocery bag stuffed to bursting.

He went out on the pool deck, parked them in the corner by the screen door and came back in the house, was distracted by something else and forgot they were out there.

So did I, until Monday night.

Mike couldn’t find his iPad and when he went in Jon’s room to look for it, he discovered Jon’s iPad was missing.

Mike came back through the kitchen, his own iPad in hand.

“Do you know where Jon’s iPad is? it’s not in his room. That’s probably why he took mine.”

“No, I have no idea where it would be.”

As I was answering, I immediately remembered the bags left outside, and it was pouring down rain and had been for about ten minutes!

I shot through the kitchen like the house was on fire. “Oh no! I bet it’s outside!

Mike watched me run to the pool deck into the downpour and return with Jon’s dripping wet bags.

We found his iPad and the toilet bowl brush squished along side a bottle of mouthwash, a toothbrush, a shower squeegee, his karate jacket, a roll of scotch tape, a pair of binoculars, the remote to his TV, a few of his favorite DVDs, and several other miscellaneous items.

I don’t know where he thought he was going.

He hadn’t packed a single pair of underwear but where ever it was…at least he was planning on having a clean toilet when he arrived.