Sanitized, for your protection

We're moving again, to another province and city. Perhaps, this time, we'll stay put for a few years. At any rate, my wife and son have gone on ahead, so my son can start school at the beginning of the school year, instead of 3 week later, when we actually take possession of our new home.

I've stayed behind, to pack up everything in the house in preparation for the moving truck to show up, and transport all our belongings. Not only do I have to pack up the house, but as it hasn't been sold yet, I also have to keep it in near show-home condition as I do so. It actually isn't that difficult to keep in show-home condition. It is a large house: two storeys with a basement, 3 bedrooms, and 3.5 bathrooms; when I'm not actively packing any given room, I generally don't have to go into it.

Except for the bathrooms ... and I hate cleaning them. Many years ago, Saturday Night Live did a skit, where the owner of a bar cleaned the bathrooms with, of all things, a flame-thrower. Afterwards, he applied a label across the bathroom doorway: "Sanitized for your Protection."

I'm not using a flame-thrower, but I have taken a page out of the barkeeper's book. To prevent myself from accidentally using 3 of the 4 bathrooms, and having to clean them yet again, I've stretched packing tape across the doorways:

"Sanitized for your protection"