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Things I Hate

August 11th, 2005 · 7 Comments · Things I Hate

When I make my list of Things I Hate, I need to be sure to add, Automatic Flushing Toilets.

Today when I went to the bankruptcy court, I decided to stop and use the facilities. My mother always told me to go when I had the opportunity because you never know when the opportunity will come up again. So I stopped by.

I sat down, started to pee and leaned forward a little too far. WOOSH! Scared the bezeezes out of me. I finished my work there and stood up to button my pants and before I got my pants pulled up it went off again.

I thought those things were designed to save water not waste it.

Ciao,

M&Co.

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7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 beckster // Apr 30, 2007 at 12:00 am

    Yes! Yes! I agree.
    I was in a ladies room at the airport in Paris about to board a 7 hour flight home. The toilet flushed and splashed me while I was sitting there.
    I did the best I could to clean up, but all the way home on the plane, I was just freaked out about it. (insert overly dramatic shudder here.)

  • 2 Susan // Nov 30, 1999 at 12:00 am

    Henry (who fears EVERYTHING) just LOVES the automatic flush toilets. When we took the boys to Florida for TEN DAYS last winter, his only clear memory was of the auto-flush toilets.

    Frankly, they freak me out, too.

  • 3 Mary P. // Nov 30, 1999 at 12:00 am

    I hate them, too. They just put them in a local mall here, and now the seats are ALWAYS splashed with water. Surely this is less hygenic?

    But not as bad as those on-the-street pay toilet cubicles in Paris. Did you see them? When you’ve left them, the entire toilet flips down, it’s cleaned and disinfected, and then it flips back up. Hence, children under 10 are not to go in without an adult.

    A child-eating toilet: now that’s a scarey thought! (Susan: DON’T tell Henry about this!)

  • 4 M&Co. // Mar 31, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Actually, Mary, there are days a child-eating toilet would be a welcome addition to my house. How about a teenager eating toilet, that might come in handy the next few years.

  • 5 Melanie Lynne Hauser // Nov 30, 1999 at 12:00 am

    Oh, yes! I hate those – I always get an unexpected shower.

  • 6 Homestead // Dec 31, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Ok. Picture me (please picture me sleek & attractive & fun). I’m in the end stall of the bathroom in an airport in a major city…. an adaptor is snaking out of the stall and plugged into the ONLY wall outlet in the bathroom. A black bag containing a strange machine is hanging off the edge of the bathroom stall (why does THIS bathroom not have that handy hook on the back of the door?) and emitting an odd chugging sound. I’m STANDING in the stall (doing yoga poses & deep breathing to pass the time) praying no one is going to alert security about the bomb-machine in the concourse D bathroom. Yes, my serene & speedy pumping session was frequently interupted by the “gahwhoosh” of the fraggin’ auto-toilets. File this one under “the things we do for love.”

  • 7 Julie // Aug 19, 2005 at 8:47 am

    Homestead, I had the same thing happen to me while pumping in an airport a few months ago. But since I only had a manual pump (and was therefore ensconced for a good twenty minutes), the damn toilet flushed at least two dozen times while I was in there.

    And why is that that they refuse to flush when you are actually FINISHED?