clear rants

Nothing is less appealing (read: gross) than approaching a urinal filled with liquids of various shades of green and yellow.

Thanks to modern urinal technology, this doesn’t happen too often anymore in highly trafficked public bathrooms. The sensor in the urinal will flush your excretions for you. But for those urinals without the convenience of a blinking red light, there are always pools of dark yellow urine. I will not be discussing other disgusting features of the urinal (i.e. stray curly hairs, ice cubes, gum wads, urinal cakes, etc.) in this post–that is a discussion for another day. Today, we are dealing with negligent flushers.

Flush your urinals gentlemen. I am not fond of breathing in the musky odor of your urine when I approach a urinal, neither am I amused by the shade of your piss. Also, when I’m at a urinal, there is usually a strong desire to release the pressure on my bladder; wasting time to flush your pee down the drain is time I can not afford. Flushing negligence is also a sign of hand-washing negligence. If you don’t bother reaching out and pulling the handle, I’m sure you also don’t bother stopping to wash your hands. That’s just un-hygienic and gross. So please, next time you’re at an un-sensored (word play!) urinal, please remember to flush and wash your hands. For God’s sake, think of the children!

Thank you.

PS. I know this is too much to ask, but when you’re peeing at a toilet, please lift the toilet seat before you pee. Seeing little yellow droplets (wet and dry) on the toilet seat isn’t fun. Neither is it fun for an unsuspecting person to come and sit in your pee. And when at someone else’s house, please place the toilet seat back down. It’s just common courtesy.