Pete's Log: Low Flow Toilets
Entry #1337, (Life in General)(posted when I was 24 years old.)
OK, so Meg and I are now living in the Washington, DC area. In Kensington, MD to be precise. We're just north of the Beltway and just east of 270. Sort of between Rockville, Bethesda and Silver Spring.
I'll have lots more to share later, but I wanted to share this story, just because I want to ensure you that my log isn't completely dead.
When we moved in, our toilet was clogged. So the real estate lady called in a plumber. This guy was the greatest plumber ever. He replaced every part in our toilet in order to ensure that not only will it work, it will continue to work. The clog, it turns out, was because a previous inhabitant had tried to flush a toothbrush down the toilet.
Anyway, our toilet is a low water volume sort of toilet. 1.6 gallons or so. So the plumber, who had a very vocal hatred of low flow toilets, recommended we always flush twice. But then he decided to be nicer to us and installed a fancy piece of toilet technology. So now our toilet automatically flushes twice.
This is the greatest thing ever. Government is so stupid sometimes. They decide to make people use 1.6 gallon toilets to conserve water, and now people just flush more often. And best of all, there now exist gadgets to make toilets automatically flush twice. Take that, government.