Here at work we have two urinals: one that flushes great and another requires 3+ flushes to get the bowl drained.
Well, the bathroom reeks everyday because someone insists on using the bad urinal, allowing the unflushed urine to rot away all day.
I know, I know, put up a sign. At this point I feel like it is some test of human psychology. I mean, surely they realize they should use the other urinal, versus the one with the dark yellow, rank piss in it. Right???
Or, flush the damn thing until it drains!
This, ladies in gentlemen is the very reason communism failed.
Actually, given the choice between two otherwise equal urinals, one clean and one that obviously hasn’t been flushed, my instinct is to go with the unflushed one. Why? When I’ve finished with it, I’ll have flushed it, and thus the bathroom is that much cleaner.
The point isn’t whether to fix it or not. Instead, it is why would a person continue to use a urinal that does not work when there is one right beside it that works fine?
We are a very small office, too, so it’s not like people just aren’t aware of it, like say in a public building or some mega office with lots of transients.
Basically, you walk by the bathroom and smell the reek of stale piss.
A normal person would walk in and put two and two together. “Hmm, it always smells, and this urinal always has stale piss in it, let me try flushing it… hmmm doesn’t flush well… maybe I’ll use the one beside it that does flush.”
This, ladies IN gentlemen (tee hee), is why we haven’t established a moon colony yet.
So there.
PS: Typing on a message board with an iPhone sucks.