Life Lessons - Part 1
Posted by Linus Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:41:00 GMT
This weekend I attended a friend’s birthday and it made me realize just how old I am getting. In the twenty six years that I have roamed the earth I have learned many important life lessons which I think I should start sharing. These aren’t going to be philosophical life lessons but instead a series of practical tips that have helped me so far. So without further ado…
Life Lesson #1 – Public toilets
We all know the situation; we’re out in public and then have a terrible stomach ache. Being nowhere close to the comfort of your own home, you need to find a clean public toilet.
Most people think the best place is to find a restaurant. However, often times you can’t find a clean one where you can just walk right without getting accosted by a host/hostess. Instead what you should look for is a hotel. Hotels always have great bathrooms and you can shamelessly walk right in, pretend you are a guest, and do your business.
Now I do agree that hotels are less abundant than restaurants but if you spend an extra five minutes in the car looking for one, you’d be surprised, there are more than you think.
Okay so once you get into the bathroom, I always have this problem. The way the toilet seat covers are designed it makes it so that the bottom flap (see picture below) always touches the water.
As the water soaks up the paper, it drags the whole cover into the bowl. This means you probably have at most 30 seconds to take off your pants and sit down.
The way to avoid this problem is to simply tear off either the bottom half of the flap so that it doesn’t touch the water. I can’t stress this enough because it will save you so much time in life setting a new cover.
That’s it for now, stay tuned for other life lessons…