We dwell in difficult, controversial occasions. There’s upheaval throughout us, and vastly differing opinions as to the suitable method to resolve nearly each downside. The “proper” and the “left” can not seem to agree on something…besides perhaps that they are each unquestionably, devoutly dedicated to the rules that outline them – no matter these could also be. However there stays one concern that’s extra hotly debated than all others mixed. I’m speaking about, after all, men’s insistence on leaving the bathroom seat up. Why cannot they only depart the rattling issues down? The easy reply is, “we will…however why ought to we?”
“What?” I hear you bristle. “Guys ought to decrease the bathroom seat as a result of it is simply the thoughtful factor for them to do!” Agreed. It will be very thoughtful for us to try this for you. And equally, it could be equally thoughtful so that you can increase the seat again up for us upon completion of your process – for it takes about the identical quantity of effort to lift the seat because it does to decrease it. In an ideal world, this sort of reciprocity makes absolute sense. We take care of bathroom seat positioning for you, and also you do the identical for us. All people’s pleased squatting toilet stool.
However this begs a vital query: “Would not it’s less complicated and fewer complicated if every of us have been simply chargeable for inserting the seat within the place that greatest suited our wants, counting on others to do the identical? And should not we settle for and have tolerance for the physiological variations of others with whom we share our amenities, acknowledging their wants could also be totally different, although no much less vital than our personal?” It is a matter of shared rights and duties, with men and girls having equal dominion over the “seat of honor.”
“However wait,” I hear you say. “What about when I’ve to make use of the bathroom at night time and I do not wish to activate the light. If the bathroom seat is up, I am apt to dunk my buns within the bowl. That basically sucks, and it isn’t truthful, ‘trigger guys haven’t got the identical downside.” No, however we now have a distinct, equally disagreeable one. True, for us, urination might be achieved with out being seated. But when we do not activate the light and you have left the seat down, or worse, the lid, our stream is out of the blue ricocheting in each course, spraying the contents of our bladder all over the place however within the bowl. And that leaves each us and the toilet, pungent, damp, and in want of scrubbing. So within the case of nighttime toilet utilization, I feel we should all both activate the light to find out seat orientation (“look earlier than you leak”), or fastidiously really feel our means at the hours of darkness, ensuring the “accommodations” are appropriate to our specific state of affairs.
I hope this has helped resolve probably the most insidious toilet conflicts going through us at present. Maybe this recognition of range of wants coupled with personal accountability will enable men and girls all over the place to have the ability to climate these “ups” and “downs” in an setting of fine humor and mutual respect. And if we will efficiently obtain this sort of harmonious co-existence, may world peace be far behind?
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