Matt Welch Has Bathroom Issues
Just when you think there's absolutely nothing to fill your blog on deadline morning, Matt Welch goes off on bathroom automation:
I've studied this trend for several years now, and I can confirm that at least one out of every four sensory-triggered urinal-flushers in America suffers from a kind of aquatic Tourette's Syndrome, sending cascades of water both downward and outward at intervals that CalTech's finest couldn't predict. Woe to the end-user standing prone in front of a gusher; it can take hours to remove the phony appearance of incontinence, and that's one hell of an awkward position to assume in front of a wall-mounted blow drier.The EZ Flush system has also migrated to the stalls, and for reasons utterly beyond my grasp, these seem to be most frequently situated in supposed classier washroom environments. In January, I found myself in a four-star InterContinental Hotel where not only did the automatic stall-flush fail to perform its critical function, the automatic lights failed as well, thereby throwing the entire room into a blackout at the worst possible moment.
Now, you didn't hear it from me, but some say it was an overenthusiastic auto-flush toilet that causes Janet's "wardrobe malfunction." I don't know -- some sort of delayed reaction or something -- auto-flush now -- and boob covers fly off hours later. Scarrrreeey!