Get Rid of Automatic Flushing Toilets!

They had to install automatic toilets in public restrooms because people can’t be trusted to flush a toilet.

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Of all the things in the world that mankind needs, does the automatic flushing toilet immediately leap to mind? It certainly doesn’t for me. And to be quite frank, before this great technological advance, the majority of people understood that they had an obligation to flush the toilet. Now with the automatic flushing toilet, they feel absolved of all responsibility and simply walk away whether or not their automatically flushing toilet has automatically flushed.

I work in a lovely, modern office building with many conveniences, including, unfortunately automatically flushing toilets. The problem is that although they flush, their timing sucks! How many times have you sat on an automatically flushing toilet and wondered whether or not you were on a bidet? For no apparent reason, the toilet flushes; but after you make your deposit, NOTHING happens. Instead of manually flushing, people feel no obligation to flush away their deposits, because it’s not their job; it’s the toilet’s job. This makes for very unpleasant experiences on a regular basis.

Ladies and gentlemen, whether your toilet is automatically flushing or requires manual intervention, it’s your obligation to make sure your deposits get flushed away. Let's end our dependence on the automatic flushing toilet.

Dear automatic flushing toilet, I appreciate your enthusiasm but I wasn’t finished.

Anonymous

Make someone smile today.

Geri

How I Learned to Respect the Flush Toilet

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

Rachael Ray

Toilets are things we take for granted (unless they stop working). They’re also the subject of a lot of frat-boy humour. No one needs instructions on how to operate a flush toilet; the process is simple. We go into a cubicle (some are tiny and some are spacious), lock the door, hope for toilet paper (preferably 2-ply), flush, wash our hands and exit.

Quite frankly I haven’t given the flush toilet a second thought since the last time I encountered a squatter in Turkey (not a happy day). I recently spent a joyful trip sailing in the Bahamas with friends who are the proud owners of a 43-foot Jeanneau. Everything on a boat is very compact including the bathroom which makes airplane bathrooms seem spacious by comparison. A toilet on a boat is called a head because back in the day of sailing ships the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the ship. Flushing a toilet on a boat is an interesting process and George was kind enough to give me my training. It’s not just flush and walk away because a head on a boat doesn’t just flush; it macerates. It involves a minimum of 10 plunges in one direction, flipping a lever and another 10 plunges in the other direction. I’ll spare you the details about maceration but in case you’re really interested here’s a YouTube video that shows how it’s done. Never-the-less there is work involved with this humble process.

I was thrilled to find that at the marinas there are spacious washrooms with flush toilets! I availed myself of these modern gifts of technology at every possible occasion and never ceased to revel in the sound of whoosh, as I effortlessly flushed.

Now that I’m a land lubber again, I’m sure the joy of flushing will wear off soon, but in the meantime I have developed a new respect for the flush toilet.

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
Thomas Lynch

Make someone smile today.

Geri