Seriously, what the fuck?! It’s a lever that takes very little effort to move. Sure, there are germs there from when everyone else has touched it, but that’s one reason you wash your fucking hands afterwards.
Nowhere is it more evident that I share this world with a bunch of sick, filthy, nasty assholes than when I have to use a public restroom!
Maybe you think your little turd is a work of art, but the rest of us have enough shit of our own to deal with, we don’t want to have to look at your Hershey squirts as we walk in the bathroom.
To those who don’t flush the toilet: may a bird shit on your head every time you don’t flush!
I read an article recently which claimed a large proportion of people flushpublic toilets with their foot. So I wonder, why not manufacture toilets designed to be flushed that way? It would be better than the auto-flush ones that go off multiple time while you’re using them if you dare move the wrong way. When I worked at a school they scared the little kids!
How do we go about changing the industry standard?
I’ve always flushed with my foot and assumed that that was the intended design. I don’t understand flushing by hand – either you’re still sitting and your undercarriage gets sprayed, or you have to lean over the bowl, and neither seems desirable to me.
I work at a company full of IT professionals, and I’m appalled at the state of the bathrooms on a regular basis. How the hell can you not flush the gorram toilet when youre done? Youre not a little kid still getting used to this, you’re a fucking adult. Act like one.
You insensitive sods. Yes, some people *will *die if they flush the toilet. They will die a horribly painful death which consists of a soldering iron, a staple gun and a syphilitic demon wolf. Have a little compassion for your fellow man. Sheesh.
I was at a wedding reception at a fancy downtown Houston upper crust club facility, and their toilet flushes worked by little pedals on the floor. Maybe it was all the free booze, but it struck me as one of the most ingenious ideas ever implemented.
I think failure to flush is a mortal sin. However, although I don’t visit stalls in public restrooms often (less than once per year I’d estimate), I have only encountered this abomination once. Still, once is more than enough for one lifetime. How common is it?
Hell, it happens at my workplace with fair regularity. And 90+% of us have advanced degrees. People are disgusting no matter where you go.
Less common at work but more common in the broader world are the examples of toilets where it was obvious the user thought the toilet was a suggested target and opted otherwise.
As a counter example, I have worked in this building for over 30 years and have never, ever come across this problem except twice when the toilet was clogged.
The worst problem we have is people leaving reading material (newspapers) strewn on the floor in front of the toilet, as if the next person is going to want to pick it up to read it.
I don’t know how I am so blessed. Maybe it’s because we have a wide range of ages here, from me at 64 (there’s actually one guy still working who’s over 75) down to 20-somethings. The young ones see how things are when they come in and tend to maintain that way, maybe.
Roddy
The pedal design was, as I recall, common on passenger rail cars in the past. The one on the right gave the bowl a good rinse, while the one on the left was good for a nice view of the rail bed going by. Passengers were asked not to flush while in the station.
Although I whole-heartedly agree with the idea of the OP, I have to throw out a bit of a caveat here. I have done some plumbing work over the years and sometimes the toilet just doesn’t flush properly. It can be caused by a number of things - a clog in the p trap is pretty common, but a malfunctioning flapper (if it closes too quickly) can be the problem, too. If either of those things are happening, it may take a few flushes to get Mr. Hankey to leave the building.
This happens in workplaces more than in residential homes because when you do see it, you tend to blame the previous user rather than investigating the problem. Somebody drops some kids off at the pool, pulls the handle, hears the sound, and walks away. But the kids are still at the pool and never made it to the rec center because even though the bus makes noise, it’s not going anywhere.
And ladies, do not get me started on fucking tampons and their plastic applicators.
Some people have fatty or gassy stools, and those stools float. Those suckers can be really hard to drown. Not everyone sticks around if after two flushes (and it can take ages for the water reservoir to fill up again) it still hasn’t gone down.
I have on occasion literally tried to push it down and behind the edge with the toilet brush.
Eventually, the stool becomes waterlogged, or it dissolves. Or the the weight of the next customers business takes it down into the pipes. Sometimes that is the only solution.
The urinals and toilets in the first floor men’s room in the building I work in have foot pedal flushers and have been that way for years. They are quite old, but still work like a charm.
It was happening so frequently where I work that one day I took a Polaroid of the mess, added a frowny face at the bottom, and taped the picture up on the bathroom door. Problem (mostly) solved.