Today I went to the bathroom to take a dump.\u00a0 I thought back over the previous three and a half years I have worked in this building.\u00a0 I have never seen a stopped up toilet here…ever.\u00a0 How is that possible?\u00a0 Toilets get stopped up.\u00a0 It is a fact of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t
The toilets here\u00a0are the same as in other commercial buildings, bars, and restaurants.\u00a0 It cannot be that these toilets get stopped up less than other toilets due to design or plumbing.<\/p>\n\t
Also, I do not think that these toilets see less traffic.\u00a0 In fact, due to the number of people I know work here and the fact that they are here all day (as opposed to a few hours for restaurtants, bars, shops, etc), I think these toilets see more<\/em> traffic than\u00a0most toilets that I see stopped up occasionally.<\/p>\n\t I do not think it is the case that these corporate toilets do<\/em> get stopped up as often as other toilets in high traffic buildings…just that the maintenance crew cleans them up before I actually get to see the mess.\u00a0 I would say toilets are paid more<\/em> attention in bars, restaurants, shops, gas stations (unless you’re at the “lone highway” truckstop in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0 These toilets are stopped up because people don’t care.\u00a0 I think these types of gas stations are outliers.).\u00a0 People who run restaurants, shops, and bars know<\/em> that the toilets tend to get stopped up and check them often since an unusable toilet may mean a non-repeat customer.\u00a0\u00a0For a\u00a0corporate toilet, we have<\/em> to use it everyday.\u00a0 We have no choice.<\/p>\n\t I don’t think its that you eat or drink at other establishments (and so that causes messier toilets since your digestive system is involved).\u00a0 People eat often before coming to work (both at breakfast and lunch).\u00a0 They don’t drink before coming to work, but that really only causes puking, and so isn’t useful for other means of toilet blockage.<\/p>\n\t I also do not believe, and so am ruling out, other scenarios…like perhaps people are cleaning up their own mess in the corporate bathrooms, or that they call maintenance right after it happens because they are so conscientious.\u00a0 I don’t think so.<\/p>\n\t I am left with only one plausible scenario:\u00a0 Corporate employees are “better” shitters.<\/strong>\u00a0 They do not stop up toilets.\u00a0 They do not puke in toilets.\u00a0 They do not use too much toilet tissue.\u00a0 At least they don’t do so with the frequency of the people that habit the other establishments.<\/p>\n\t I am not really\u00a0attempting to make\u00a0a value judgment.\u00a0 I can’t think of a great, compelling reason why corporate employees would be cleaner toilet users.\u00a0 I’m not going to comment on the “why”s, just that this is the hypothesis that best\u00a0meets the observed facts.<\/p>\n\t Perhaps its just at my<\/em> company?\u00a0 I don’t have the data for other companies.\u00a0 Maybe if\u00a0corporate\u00a0employees went to other public restrooms\u00a0they would<\/em> be\u00a0poor toilet users (that doesn’t sound right though)?\u00a0 Do employees of private companies differ in any way in their toilet use (perhaps they are even better, although its hard to be a 3.5 year run of perfect)?\u00a0 Anyway, the experiments needed to confirm my hypothesis are impossible to run and wasteful since it really doesn’t matter, but it is interesting.<\/p>\n\t I\u00a0came to the conclusion that corporate employees are better shitters\u00a0simply\u00a0because I can’t think of any other\u00a0conclusion that fits better.\u00a0 Can you?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I went to the bathroom to take a dump.\u00a0 I thought back over the previous three and a half years I have worked in this building.\u00a0 I have never seen a stopped up toilet here…ever.\u00a0 How is that possible?\u00a0 Toilets get stopped up.\u00a0 It is a fact of life.\u00a0 The toilets here\u00a0are the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[14,13],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3IMYj-f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1,"url":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=1","url_meta":{"origin":15,"position":0},"title":"The state of Chasing Eden","author":"kellio","date":"September 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"So the website disappeared for.....I don't know. 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