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title: "Mother-in-Law Tip for Reading Manuals"
date: 2009-05-11
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# Mother-in-Law Tip for Reading Manuals

While eating dinner at my mother-in-law's house today, I stumbled across the following curiosity in the bathroom:

![Manual in bathroom as reading material](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/manualinbathroom1.jpg)

Kind of an ingenious strategy. A tribute to the cunning intelligence of mothers everywhere!