Pay No Attention to The Psycho Behind the Curtain.

My wife (blessed be she) has had an epiphany of sorts. Our youngest has some strange bathroom habits. He will walk past the perfectly functioning bathroom in the basement and run upstairs to the powder room in the hallway. On Sunday morning, while snug in our bed we will hear a knock on the door. It is our son wanting to use our bathroom instead of the one in the hall way. I never really thought that much of it, just chalked it up to weirdness. Yesterday my wife and I were watching me drink a beer in the kitchen when the youngster ran up the basement steps and down the hall to the bathroom. She looks at me (the wife) and says, “It’s the shower curtains.” If there is a closed shower curtain in the bathroom he won’t go in. “He denies it so I know its true.” she continued. It’s amazing how I can observe the same behavior in a person over and over and never really understand what I’m observing. I see what is going on but the reality of the event escapes me. Like my son I tend to be more concerned with what I can’t see, what’s behind the curtain. My son hides what is true, as do I. We are avoiding that which is hard to see. Taking a lead from Gar I have taken to leaving the shower curtains open in the house, after all there's nothing to fear there, just a little stubborn mildew, but we've all got some of that haven't we?