Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Toilet usage, generic improvements

These days, in most places, they are installing the western style commodes. Lack of usage knowledge usually result in a shitty condition. Some gents, don't lift the toilet seat while peeing, leaving urine strays on the toilet seat. People prefer water than toilet paper, which is fine. But often they don't wipe out the extra water on the seat or on the floor, leaving next person to have second thoughts on using the toilet. Some even forget to flush. Some toilet flush knobs have water control mechanism. That is, if you rotate the flush knob instead of pressing it, it controls the water flow quantity. If some body unknowingly rotates and keeps it in low quantity position, that is it. Next guy might not know this mechanism, just presses the knob, notices that flush is not complete, leaves it like that thinking there is a shortage of water! Horrible, isn't it!

In most of the places, it would be good to have Indian commodes as well. Especially when low labors are also using it, who are unaware of western toilets usage. Of course not saying anybody should be discouraged to use them but they should be educated. Those who missed this part, might very well miss the etiquette. In general I feel, in schools, homes usage/guidelines needs to be mentioned and also tv/movies deliberately introduce scenes on usage for public awareness.

Please do comment if something above is wrong or missed.

1 comment:

Deepak Cutinha said...

The Potty and its perils..I agree the the Indian style is more suitable for India as it makes sure that there is no real physical contact to the toilet considering the lack of knowledge of utlizing the sitting option..hopefully they make the promotional video like they show in aircrafts or then put some pictorial help near the toilet...its a tough ask..but a good read..thanks