A little restroom story ...

I haven't been blogging too much lately .. . and there is a good reason for it. No, nothing to do wiht the title .. .

I have been doing quite some "session", "lectures", ... or how do you kids call it these days . In fact, since I've been back from Convergence US, I have been doing:

• A lecture for HOWEST: a high school in Belgium which teach NAV in some of their classes.
• A session for the Dynamics Community about NAV Tips&Tricks
• A session for Directions EMEA in Prague (cooooool convention :)) about Web Services together with Freddy.
• Two session for the PowerShot in Belgium (Brussels) about Web Services and Building Role Centers

All this needed quite some preparation .. and most of it in my free time, so in short words: no time to blog. Sorry for that.

A little story...

I strongly discourage sensitive people to continue reading this post...

Now, what about that title? Well, I wasn't planning to blog this (as it's not really something to be proud of) but people that I told it to, said that I HAD to blog it .. well, here is the story.. .

Once apon a time, I had to do a Web Services session for the PowerShot (a NAV 2009 Adoption program ) in Belgium. 230 attendees, +80 people in my session. Nothing to worry about, I did it already a few times .. all will go well.

25 minutes before the session starts, I decided to go to the room to set up my laptop and stuff. But let's first go to the restroom .. a matter of not having to go during the session .. a matter of common sense . Ah, here's a toilet, let's do business. All done .. hm .. oh holy crap (in kind of a literal way) ... NO toilet paper. Are you kidding me??

OK, I will not go into how I solved that situation exactly .. but bottom line .. I needed to find another toilet as fast as I could. And I did, quite fast. I looked inside .. YES .. there's paper. Let's switch on the light .. NO LIGHT! Oh my holy god .. you're really kidding me, aren't you?? I have to do a session in 15 minutes .. . I didn't have the right reflex to take that paper, and go to the previous restroom .. dumb me...

Let's try to find yet another restroom (the PowerShot-event was organized in one of the biggest soccer-stadiums in Belgium, so there is more then one restroom ... luckily ). Yes, there is another one ... DOOR LOCKED. Pfff, this is not possible anymore. But I won't (in a way .. "can't") give up. Another restroom. And yes, I found a fourth one. This one is open, has got lights .. and there IS toilet paper. FINALLY.

All cleaned up, I continued to the sink to wash my hands .. I opened the tap .. and water SPOUTED (if that's a word) out of the tap.

10 minutes before my session, I looked like a quite frustrated dude .. that had wet his pants.. . But nobody noticed anything during the session .. Hehe :-).

That was it .. sorry for this complete off-topic blogpost .