I've been in Utah long enough now that I'm beginning to enjoy it. The lack of gross humidity, bugs, high school students, and curfews are all starting to appeal to me. Though maybe it's just because it finally cooled down. That desert sun is serious business without a layer of water in the air to dilute it a bit.
Some things, though, I wouldn't expect to change. The water tastes about the same, my pants still fit, and I still don't feel like doing homework. So imagine my surprise at one difference about Utah that I still don't understand. Yes, I'm talking about the toilets.
All my life, when finished, I've pushed the little handle and the toilet flushes. It seems easy enough. And yet here in Utah, there is a strange development that nobody has had the guts to talk about yet. Here it is: in Utah, almost half the time, you have to pull up on the handle. There's absolutely no explanation for it. And it appears to be random. New, old, makes no difference. Some handles just don't work when pushed down. I have yet to come up with a satisfactory explanation, and the people I could ask don't want to be bothered by toilet questions. So I'm left to my own thoughts, and here are the possibilities I've come up with.
1) They don't want water to be wasted when people accidentally fall on the handle.
2nd) They want us to be thinking upward, positive thoughts, even in the bathroom.
III) It's harder to break a handle when pulling up instead of pushing down.
Four) There is no 4.
The Fifth) Profit.
If anybody else has an explanation for this, I'd be glad to hear it. Until then, I'll take another nap. I love those so much...
5 comments:
The toilets in Germany have a very large button you have to push, which REALLY is unexplainable. And I'm wondering how they fix it when it's broken if the wall is tiled and the workings are inside the wall?
We send our children off into the world to learn about life, the universe and everything, hoping that we've made good use of the time entrusted to us to prepare them. All those years at home and neither of these kids has learned to OPEN THE THING UP AND SEE HOW IT WORKS! Lift off the lid, or button cover, and LOOK! Then tell me about it, because, of course, I'm curious.
How do you take the lid off a urinal?
This is a phenomenon I have failed to notice. I will commence a survery of all the bathrooms I visit over the next little while.
I'm with you, Jim. I remember discovering that the top came off the toilet at an early age, and now after discovering what the mystery is all about, I'm fairly adept at resolving your day-to-day toilet malfunctions (not the human kind, though). Ben-you're starting to embark on a dangerous game, nephew. We don't talk about Utah secret toilet issues with outsiders. Someone will be coming to talk to you about this...
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