the naked american

thought for the day - it actually started yesterday.

you ‘re in a crowded men’s room, on the toilet and putting out some force that threatens to wreck the plumbing. do you courtesy flush? for years i thought the best thing you could do for your fellow stallmates was to give a polite flush and make everyone’s time in the stall more bearable, but with my reinvigorated need to be green, i am having second thoughts.

older bathrooms generate 5 gallons per flush. your average water bottle at the water cooler has 5 gallons. if you are trying to be polite you could use 10, and if you ate the late-night bacon cheeseburger at swingers, maybe 15 gallons. that is a lot of water down the drain just in the interest of being polite.

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i think the only responsible thing to do is forgo the courtesy flush. you might have to apologize but you might also be saving the world.