Somebody in the 1970s walked into the wettest room in the house, looked at the tub, the shower, and the toilet, and said: "You know what this room needs? WALL-TO-WALL CARPET." 😂
And this wasn't the cheap option. This was the UPGRADE. Carpet companies ran ads for it. Builders charged extra for it. Somewhere there was a salesman in a polyester suit explaining to your grandparents that tile was for poor people. 💸
The toilet got its own matching outfit — a rug cut into a little horseshoe to hug the base, a fuzzy cover for the lid, a fuzzy cover for the tank. The toilet was the best-dressed thing in the house. It owned a three-piece suit before your dad did. 🤵😂
They carpeted right up to the tub. Some of them carpeted the SIDE of the tub. The tub. A thing that holds water for a living. 🛁🤣
Now do the math on what lands in bathroom carpet. Shower steam. Bath splashes. The overflow. And the fellas' aim — and let's be honest, some of those fellas couldn't hit the bowl from inside the bowl. 🤣 Carpet catches all of it. Carpet files it away. Carpet keeps it FOREVER. There are bathroom carpets from 1976 that are technically still wet. 🤢
Ask anybody who's ever ripped one out on a remodel. That's not a floor, that's an archaeological dig with a smell. Men who'll pull a transmission in February suddenly find religion when the bathroom carpet job comes up. 🙏
So whose idea was it? We asked Google. Google blamed "corporate manufacturing innovations, tract-home builders, and interior designers." Fifty years, millions of bathrooms, and NOBODY will take the credit. The mob owns up to more than the carpet industry does. 🤐🤣
This photo is real, by the way — wall-to-wall, right up to the tub, and the tub's already got a moving box in it. Even the tub is moving out. 📦😂
Who grew up with this crime scene? 🫣 What color was yours — avocado green, harvest gold, or the brown that hid a thousand sins? Fuzzy toilet seat cover too? Confess below. 👇
📷 Photo: "It's Asbestos Time, Baby," via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
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