I’m having a lot of fun imagining the Giraffe Board’s take on this thread. I think actually reading it would just disappoint.
I have plenty of chance to flush anything stinky the two or three times I wake up to pee during the night. Ah, the joys of aging.
The Romans used to clean their teeth with urine (the ammonia in it whitens the teeth). Many cultures valued their urine and flushing it away was considered a waste of a useful product
I flush every time. I don’t give a flying fuck about saving water or the environment; I don’t want anybody’s urine to come splashing back on me when I take a whiz.
Well, our water is cheaper.
Three bathrooms, two occupants. We each flush our own toilet’s urine every so often. The guest bathroom is always flushed, because it sometimes is only used once a week or so.
Ew, yes, I’m a manic flusher. But then I live in the UK do water conservation isn’t normally an issue and my supply isn’t metered so the cost is the same regardless.
When it’s just me, I don’t flush for only pee. And I keep the lid down, because the cats are disgusting and want to drink from the toilet bowl and then put their faces by mine.
So how did you explain this when friends spent the night? My mom was of the “only flush if it’s poop” school, and damn, as a kid it was not easy to explain to friends why there was pee in the toilet all night.
Flushing the toilet can be a deeply ingrained behavior, often at OCD levels in people who don’t otherwise appear to be afflicted. There are people who flush before and after they use the toilet. There are people who flush multiple times while they are using the toilet. They are rarely persuaded to change in drought conditions. They need to do it.
Friends did not–no room.
Huge family, remember?