On to the Urinals and the Inherint Inequality Involved with Toilet Seats...

While I learned a valuable lesson yesterday about tossing my hole punch leisurely to the far end of my desk, I don't think it was worth the thousand some words i'd drafted towards this concept. As it stands, I would advise anyone against striking the Escape key on your keyboard while in the middle of utilizing the Blogger New Post function. Being as, when you hit escape, either directly or by some dumb luck with your hole punch, it does in fact delete the lot of what you've entered so far.

Very well, after that brief public service announcement, let's cover the matter at hand.

Urinals.

While they're obviously prominent in bars and restaurants and stadiums, and well really any public place that regularly houses more than 10 patrons, they've not got great market penatration when it comes to residential clients. Which to me seems sort of obscure. Not to suggest a single mother with three daughters could really see the virtue of a urinal, most average families would. Being as a toilet requires two gallons of water on average to completely flush, where as a urinal requires but a liter, the savings in water alone can be immense. Not to mention of course very rarely do you find your urinal malfunctioning, or coursing water through it's interworkings as your family spends two weeks in Disney. Yeah, you thought the park was expensive, wait till you see your utility bill. Beyond that, they're relatively inexpensive and take little to no effort to install. I personally would love a urinal. Nothing like waking in the morning, and not really having to focus on aiming, or bothering with a toilet seat, or playing R. Kelly with the urinal cake. Over all, the urinal is far superior to the toilet, and obviously without the inherint inequities involved with the toilet seat itself.

Which is a fine way to introduce my next speaking point, as intentional and cheesy as it may appear. I like to call it... The Inherint Inequality Involved with Toilet Seats... Basically, the concept is as follows. Women want the toilet seat down at all times. Women don't like men urinating on the seat of the toilet. Men don't like putting the seat back down. These three issues cause four marital disputes every minute here in the continental USA. One in eighteen hundred of these disputes end violently. The reason I bring this topic forward, is simply because it seems unfair to assume that the toilet seat should remain in the down position at all time. Why should women put the seat down, and leave it down, so the man can just lift it to use the toilet? Why not just make the women put the seat down, without conversation or dispute as it were? Not to say that either should be dominate in any fashion, but it's honestly unfair to punish men because thats what your mother did. There are two opportunities for level ground in this situation. First, the understand that the toilet seat is fine in any position, albeit up or down, or somehow braced or jammed between the two extremes, and neither party can complain about the position of the seat when they intend to use it. Just declare peace with the toilet as it were. Second, you could always buy a urinal, they're easy to install, and use less water than the average toilet. Not only that, but the toilet seat could always remain in the down position.

Thats the lot of it from me.

-Rys4K

p.s.- This feel too much like a report of some sort... Except for the R. Kelly joke.