Problem solved, finally
A classic argument between men and women, is what to do with the toilet seat. Traditionally, men are accused of leaving the toilet seat up, while women want it left in the seat-down, lid-up position. Both parties want to do nothing when they leave the bathroom, which is the crux of the issue. The sticking point is that women also want to have to do nothing when they enter the bathroom. The fundamental difference is that women enter the bathroom with one option, to sit down, while the man enters the bathroom, with two options, to stand or to sit, depending on the call of nature that initiated the trip to the bathroom. Women don't want to have to touch the seat because of it's inherent uncleanliness. The other thing, unknown mostly to men, is that women also want the option to go into the bathroom in the dark and trust that the seat be down. Men don't even consider this, because they are used to adjusting the toilet to their bodily function at the time. A toilet has no natural position, and if it did, it would not be lid up, seat down. If this issue was about fairness, both parties would need to do equal work, but that's not the entire problem. The perfect solution, one that I have been exercising since I discovered it, is that after each use, both the seat and the lid of the toilet be returned to the down position. The solution is fair because both parties do work before and after the visit, it's clean because the women need only touch the sanitary lid and not the seat, and it's neat because the toilet looks better if it's always in the double-down position and it's reliable so that women walking into the bathroom in the dark know that the lid is always there or discover that with relative painlessness. Alas, the argument has been settled.

   [ posted by William @ 4:53 PM ]