Morning blues

I've got a solid morning routine. Every morning I wake up, brew myself a cup of red tea and enjoy it while doing some light reading. After that, I take a quick shower and start getting ready for my day. I've a got a small medicine cabinet that contains my vitamins, razor and shaving cream, deodorant, toothbrush, and so on. The medicine cabinet, is not so strategically placed though. It is right above my toilet.

Now just imagine all the possibilities here. You're opening a bottle of vitamins and trying to segregate the day's pill...above the toilet. You're taking the cap off of your deodorant...above the toilet. Your taking out your toothbrush and toothpaste...above the toilet.

I've been keeping track of the things I've lost to my thoughtlessly designed bathroom. So far I've lost 7 allergy pills, 3 centrum vitamins, and 1 medium bristled oral b toothbrush. I've dropped other things in as well. Things that couldn't be replaced so were quickly fished out and thoroughly sanitized.

I know what your next thought is, "Why don't you just learn to put the toilet lid down?". Well, that's a good thought, but learning to put the seat down took me 3 years, learning to put the lid down. I don't know if I'll ever learn to do that.

• Life Lesson #11: Some lessons are never learned.