| Author | Message | ||
     LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 2337 Registered: 10-2002  |
Here's my typical experience with facilities that have automatically flushing toilets: 1. Walk into stall 2. On my way to sitting down, the toilet flushes 3. Prior to standing up, the toilet flushes (sometimes twice) 4. Then, when I'm ready to leave, it doesn't flush, so I have to manually press the button to flush it. Where's the sense in this??? Conventional toilets use, what?, 5 gallons per flush (or a ultra low one at about 1.6 gallons). So, every time a person goes in there - how much water is being wasted? Aside from the waste of water, it's just plain annoying. Are there really THAT many people who don't flush that they have to install these in so many public restrooms? I do truly find all of this disturbing, but I figured the Soapbox could use a senseless thing to moan about. I've been a little afraid to chime in on matters of parenting and dogs.  | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 9333 Registered: 5-2001  |
What's even worse is when a parent locks their kid in the car so that they can take their dog into the stall to drink out of the auto flush bowel, triggering it a million times.  sorry; couldn't resist The other thing is that when you try to put the hygenic paper seat down, it often triggers the flushing mechanism, which sucks it down, so you end up doing it a thousand time and waste water and paper. Or the ones that are so sensitive that if you sneeze, they flush. And the people who can't be bothered looking to make sure that all traces are gone before they leave the stall. | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 2338 Registered: 10-2002 |
GT -  . Glad you couldn't resist. Don't even get me started on the "traces" on the seat......I will NEVER understand how otherwise normally functioning people can't clean up after themselves. | ||
| Shanabana Citizen Username: Shanabana Post Number: 1075 Registered: 10-2005  |
Those toilets cause great anxiety for my 5 year old. I also acutely dislike when they splash my butt with water as it flushes when I'm still sitting on it. EEEEWWWW!! | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 2339 Registered: 10-2002 |
Shanabana - my niece went through the same anxiety when she was younger. She referred to them as the "Magic Toilets" and absolutely refused to use them. I think she thought it would swallow her whole while sitting on it... My poor sister hated road trips because the "Magic Toilets" are all you can find on the highway rest stops. | ||
| daylaborer Citizen Username: Upondaroof  Post Number: 926 Registered: 4-2003  |
Oh there are many a beer drinking night in the woods that I thank God I'm a man! Which reminds me of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. God just got through creating Eve and was looking through his bag of tricks and said to both "I have only two items left so who would like the ability to pee standing up?" Me, me screamed Adam and God said "So be it." He then turned to Eve who was visibly bummed by this loss to Adam and said, "Well Eve, I'm afraid all I have left for you is multiple orgasms!" | ||
| extuscan Citizen Username: Extuscan Post Number: 694 Registered: 6-2001 |
At Central High School in Manchester NH, there was a report that there was a bomb in a toilet. The police came to inspect and found a box with wires coming out of it and what appeared to be a motion sensor. The police officer stood there for two hours before the bomb squad could be certain his movement wouldn't trigger the bomb. I'm sure its obvious to everyone by now it was actually the automatic toilet sensor which had fallen out (or been pried out) the wall and into the toilet. I wish I could say it was an urban legend, but its not. -John | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 800 Registered: 11-2005  |
I HATE THEM TOO!! About two months ago I was in an airport waiting my flight when my stomach went kaboom. I don't know what hit me but it hit hard, so as reluctant as I am I had to head to the airport restrooms. So I get in there and choose the stall that looks most sanitary  I get in there and immediately start making an •••-gasket (you know the paper on the seat thing) picture a guy in a suit with beads of sweat falling down his forehead and his hands trembling, imagine trying to get two layers of paper down while a bomb was ticking....thats how intense it was...so I get it done and look up to see those pre-made paper seat How did I miss that before!!?? What the hell, I grab one of those and put it down anyway, I stand up shaking like a crackhead trying to get my pants undone, belt's off and I turn around to sit.........this is the precise momnet the automatic eye sees me move...FLUSH..and it takes down all the paper covering the seat just as I was about to make contact!!!! Arghhhh | ||
| Lizziecat Citizen Username: Lizziecat Post Number: 1403 Registered: 5-2003 |
And yet, I would rather have an automatic flushing public toilet than have to use one where the previous occupant has not flushed. | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 801 Registered: 11-2005 |
Hmm, you've got a point there | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 2372 Registered: 3-2004 |
You don't have to automatically flush the toilet. It automatically flushes (by itself). | ||
| MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 4492 Registered: 12-2004  |
Um, K_soze: TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! OMG, no offense, but talk about "over-sharing!" Holy crap! | ||
| Lydia Supporter Username: Lydial Post Number: 2155 Registered: 5-2001 |
Ladies - Urine luck: www.magic-cone.com Yours, IP Daily | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4736 Registered: 7-2002  |
how about an automatic see through toilet (you can see out, but no one can see in.  at least it doesn't look like this  | ||
| Jersey_Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 1779 Registered: 1-2006  |
What about the "automatic" paper dispensers after you wash your hands and the electric eye gives you five inches of constuction paper. You DO wash your hands after, don't you? J.B. | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 10680 Registered: 4-1997  |
As Monster proves, there's a dang camera in the john. | ||
| MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 4495 Registered: 12-2004 |
Very interesting Lydia! The illustrations and animated instructions on how to use the thing are priceless. | ||
| Lizziecat Citizen Username: Lizziecat Post Number: 1404 Registered: 5-2003 |
Those paper cones are the descendants of a funnel shaped device developed by the Israeli Army for their women soldiers. Not to go too far off the subject, has anyone ever had to use the strange toilets in France where there's no seat and you have to squat above a stream of water running in a channel? And how come the toilets in Italy don't have seats? And why don't they give you any toilet paper in France? | ||
| Hamandeggs Citizen Username: Hamandeggs Post Number: 376 Registered: 8-2005 |
There are "paper-free" toilets in London now, imported from Japan. The whole flush, wash, warm air to dry you is automatic -- imagine! | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 2340 Registered: 10-2002 |
Lizzie - I've unfortunately used those holes in the ground in Italy. And, to top it off, you have to pay for the privilege of using them. Hamandeggs - I was just in London, but must have missed those....I'm not sure I like the concept though - if it is as I'm picturing it... My family went camping every year up in the Adirondacks... Some years, we'd canoe the whole week and hope to find a place along one of the rivers to set up camp. If we were lucky, we found a lean-to. Anyway, they usually had an outhouse at a camping area to use, with the exception of one place that had somehow lost the "house" part of the equation, so there was just a toilet seat over a hole in the ground. We now all joke about the "outseat." I also remember being afraid to go to one of outhouses at one site because you had to pass by someone's grave to get there. They buried "John C. Chapman", "Woodsman" out there. I'll never forget the name - scared the bujesus out of me. I thought for sure he was going to rise up out of the ground and kill me on my way to the outhouse. Ahhh.....good times.....good times.... | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 804 Registered: 11-2005 |
Me and the boys - What, it's a funny story. | ||
| mim Citizen Username: Mim Post Number: 697 Registered: 5-2001 |
We have often had the pleasure of those 'footprints toilets' (also known as Rocket Launchers in our family) in Italy and in France, Lizziecat. I even found one in a quite decent restaurant in Paris earlier this year. Once I saw a very frail looking old Italian lady emerging from such a bathroom and wondered how she could possibly manage. Long years of practice, I guess. While we're on the subject, English toilet paper is getting better, however -- they no longer wax it. | ||
| Hoops Citizen Username: Hoops Post Number: 2047 Registered: 10-2004  |
I like automatic toilets. | ||
| MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 4507 Registered: 12-2004 |
Funny? I don't know. Painful is more like it! | ||
| chiquita Citizen Username: Chiquita Post Number: 96 Registered: 5-2001 |
LilB, I agree with you. Thought you'd enjoy this: http://pages.zdnet.com/nana2003/id66.html | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 2347 Registered: 10-2002 |
chiquita - that's a good one. I still remember my confusion when my mother told me not to sit on the toilet when we were in some public restroom when I was a kid. I was utterly confused as to how I would accomplish the task without sitting on the seat, but it's one of those things in life you just figure out.... | ||
| K_soze Citizen Username: K_soze Post Number: 808 Registered: 11-2005 |
Painful pretty much describes it, you see just as I .......... | ||
| red Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 6924 Registered: 2-2003  |
I can't take it every time my four year old has to go to the bathroom and touch EVERYTHING!!! I get so freaked out, she giggles because she thinks I am silly! It is now termed as my 'mommy madness' | ||
| Wilkanoid Citizen Username: Cseleosida Post Number: 644 Registered: 10-2002 |
Here's a trick to avoid the automatic flushing, if you have great coordination and a flexible body. Take a piece of toilet paper and cover the sensor with one hand. Keep that hand there while you do your business. Of course, it will be a challenge to do that and put the paper cover down, pull down your pants, do your business, and get yourself back together again. It's easier if you have a short person in the stall with you so you can take turns. | ||
| lizzyr Citizen Username: Lizzyr Post Number: 298 Registered: 5-2001 |
I used to put a hat over the sensor when my kids were younger and were always freaked out it would flush while they were sitting. I'm mixed on them - think they do flush too much when I'm there, but do appreciate not coming in after the morons who can't bother flush after they have used the toilet. | ||
| SO Ref Citizen Username: So_refugee Post Number: 2188 Registered: 2-2005  |
I don't know if I'd put a hat back on my head after it's touched the sensor... |
