DOB kit
[edit: I'm going to cross-post this on i_heart_gene so if it shows up twice on your friends list, I apologize]
BF and I went on a trip in January. While we were there, I put my DOB kit in the bathroom and asked where his was. To which he replied, "What's a DOB kit?"
Now, put aside the question of why he was traveling without a little baggy of bathroom necessities...and how I discovered that he was basically relying on me to bring my baggy...and think about what DOB kit actually means.
I didn't know what it meant. I knew it was a little travel bag of bathroom niceties. I knew my father called it a DOB kit, and I sorta remembered that he still had his from his Navy days.
So I worked on the assumption that DOB is an acronym. I searched on the web and found: nada.
But D is easily converted to "Daily" and B can be assumed to be "Bag" or maybe "Basics." What is the O? I think it's "Oblutions," which doesn't happen to be listed in Merriam-webster, but I did find it on Urban Dictionary. It means, "The collection of acts related to sprucing up your face; any action relating to the bathroom."
DOB could be Daily Oblutions Bag, or Daily Oblutions Basics. I think it's the latter, because people always say, DOB kit, and saying it's my "Bag Kit" is sorta redundant, but saying it's my "Basics Kit" doesn't.
This is my final word on this subject. DOB kit means Daily Oblutions Basics kit. Sort of a mouthful to say...which is why I can easily imagine that in a military setting, the acronym became the standard name for the bag.
BF and I went on a trip in January. While we were there, I put my DOB kit in the bathroom and asked where his was. To which he replied, "What's a DOB kit?"
Now, put aside the question of why he was traveling without a little baggy of bathroom necessities...and how I discovered that he was basically relying on me to bring my baggy...and think about what DOB kit actually means.
I didn't know what it meant. I knew it was a little travel bag of bathroom niceties. I knew my father called it a DOB kit, and I sorta remembered that he still had his from his Navy days.
So I worked on the assumption that DOB is an acronym. I searched on the web and found: nada.
But D is easily converted to "Daily" and B can be assumed to be "Bag" or maybe "Basics." What is the O? I think it's "Oblutions," which doesn't happen to be listed in Merriam-webster, but I did find it on Urban Dictionary. It means, "The collection of acts related to sprucing up your face; any action relating to the bathroom."
DOB could be Daily Oblutions Bag, or Daily Oblutions Basics. I think it's the latter, because people always say, DOB kit, and saying it's my "Bag Kit" is sorta redundant, but saying it's my "Basics Kit" doesn't.
This is my final word on this subject. DOB kit means Daily Oblutions Basics kit. Sort of a mouthful to say...which is why I can easily imagine that in a military setting, the acronym became the standard name for the bag.