One of the toilet bowls in the office’s ladies have been cranky lately. PMS perhaps? Lol. It was flushing itself non-stop, with or without people using it. The few maintenance/repair visits apparently didn’t help. And so I believed they decided to off the automatic sensor flushing. How do I know? Cos this was what I saw was pasted in the cubicle:

“Please flush after use. The automatic sensor is not working.”

My first reaction upon reading that was “WTF?” Do we need to be told to flush? Are we to assume that if the automated flushing system is available, we do not need to flush? Isn’t it an action that is instinctive?

No doubt there are just inconsiderate people who justifies the need for such technology invention. But that aside, this made me wonder: Are we so technologically spoilt for comfort that we just forget the basics or the bare minimum? Just a food for thought.