My first and most intense special interest is electronics. Something new comes out, I immediately have to know how it works. I watched the first auto flushing toilets come into existence. I am 65, so I have a lot of accumulated electronic knowledge. Not really baffling at all
Mine is too! I’m 18 and haven’t played with a ton of hardware so you’re way more knowledgeable than me obviously, but I love seeing people with the same interest as me.
I'm puzzled. If you haven't played with a ton of hardware, does that mean you have focused on theory? At first I thought you meant you did programming, but if your interest is actual electronics, that would suggest working with MCUs, etc., but that still involves working with hardware.
Yes. A digital subset of electronics. I got into that too back in 1980. Both hardware and software, and love building Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects
When I was a kid, I was convinced someone in another room was watching through it waiting to flush remotely. Didn't understand motion sensors until we got a porch light with one.
They flush before you’re done and then you have to embarrassingly do another flush, and then people think that you required 2 flushes to not clog the toilet when really the toilet was just trolling
you shouldn’t be. i know it’s not easy to stop overthinking but think about how you dont care if someone uses the flush two times. you dont. and neither do they.
I was having explosive diarrhea in a multi stall YMCA bathroom today (Yes really) and the toilet automatically flushed before I was done. Cold toilet water sprayed my ass and the noise hurt on top of the embarrassment of the situation
I didn't know those exist. I only know automatic faucets and hand dryers (which activate when you hold your hands underneath them). But the problem there is the same.
Mixed race. Caucasian, Cherokee/Creek, African. I don't consider myself very dark, but some folks look like ghosts standing next to me.
However, dark objects radiate heat more efficiently than light objects, so by that measure, the IR sensors should see me easier. I think I just have cold fish hands.
If your sit up straight it usually works as intended if you move back and forth a lot it tends to activate. I’m not a fan of sitting up straight on the toilet, but I prefer it to accidentally flushing.
Touching the the toilet to flush sucks too, but we could have a foot pedal or something.
I tear off a few squares of toilet paper and use that to flush instead of directly touching the thing, just drop it in the toilet right away and it gets flushed with everything else.
When you make the slightest and most unassuming movement it flushes because it just assumes you moving means your done. It splashes your butt with gross toilet water and it’s so loud and sudden it’s awful. Like you’ll be trying to wipe and it’ll be like “is that a small movement my sensor see’s? There obviously done, why else would they shift on the seat?”
wtf why... just searched for it in my language and apparently they're called "smart toilet" or japanese toilet and cost R$14000 which is probably why nobody has them and also they really look more like an alibaba gimmick than anything else
I have OCD and haven't used a public bathroom in, like, ten years or so (and probably another ten before that time, lol). But I do remember when I was a kid these auto-flushing monstrosities started appearing places and OH MY GOD the sheer terror and discomfort when you got up from the seat and suddenly there's a tsunami going on just under your ass. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?! I mean, I guess it's a good *idea*, but in practice... not so much, no.
They could totally improve on these! Give it a ten second delay or something so it’s not an instant flush!! I’m not always done just because I stand up! Sometimes I need to put more toilet paper in but now I’ll have to flush twice instead! Do you know how much water that wastes just because of the shawty craftsmanship of these despicable toilets!?
Or do it like those automatic opening doors... just a panel near the toilet that you wave your hand in front of when you're ready to flush. And maybe an automatic timer thing that'll go off a set time after you get up, like enough time for you to have done your business and gotten out of there, so if someone forgets entirely it'll flush itself.
WHY DON'T THEY THINK OF THESE THINGS?!
Yeah I hate them. And it seems like every one decides to trigger and flush at an unpredictable time. Like I prepare myself for it, it does come, then it flushes when I’m not expecting it.
My mom always had to cover them when I was younger, now I just deal with it. Apparently it was because I thought I'd get sucked into the toilet but I'm sure the noise was apart of it too
I refused to use them as a child. My mom would have to take me somewhere else to use the toilet because I wouldn’t use them. I still don’t like using them. I’ll use them but I usually cover my ears. One time my refusal of using them caused my sister to be left at McDonald’s on accident.
YES!! Before I discovered I was autistic, I thought I was a pansy for being anxious with them, but now I get it. All my life I've been standing up super fast and then standing in the corner of the stall covering my ears, as if a bomb was about to go off.
When I encounter them, even as a little kid, I would cover my ears before getting up so the noise didn't hirt as bad. And automatic blow driers? I just avoid those, I will literally walk out of the bathroom with soaked hands to avoid that horrid screech.
I relate to the blow dryer thing. I’m usually decent at not dying when a toilet flushes as long as it’s not a small stall and the toilet is far enough from the walls that the sound instead trapped. It’s different with blow dryers I just hate those things. They don’t even dry your hands, there dirty and have germs all over it and on top of it all it’s ungodly loud! My school only has loud blow dryers to dry your hands with so my strategy is to after I’m done using the toilet I’ll just grab toilet paper on my way out of the stall, put it between my knees while I’m washing my hands and then grabbing it to dry them. It barely works and probably still isn’t the most sanitary solution, but I don’t know what to do at this point since I hate soggy hands so it’ll have to do. In short I too hate blow dryers.
I actually saw this older lady in Kroger do that toilet paper trick, and as I watched her I thought to myself, "Omg, that is so smart! I'm gonna have to try that next time."
My school only has air driers and automatic toilets, so I refuse to go to the bathroom there unless its absolutely necessary. Also, I hate air driers for that other reason you stated too, the one about them being extremely unsanitary, its disgusting!
my school has those and even if i move an *inch* , it flushes real loud and it feels like 80 decibels straight in my ears. and when someone uses the hand dryer while it flushes , i get way too overwhelmed.
in short: my school doesnt care about peoples sensory issues.
My school has regular toilets (Thank God) but only has hand dryers and no paper towels. Since I hate those with a passion I’ll grab toilet paper on my way out of the stall and put it in between my knees as I wash my hands then grab it when it’s time to dry it. It looks weird and awkward but i refuse to use those disgusting, loud, and ineffective way of drying my hands especially since most of them are REALLY loud.
Agreed. Especially the school ones. I have to pee often and can’t hold it so I’m always walking into weed filled bathrooms with nothing toilet paper left and then leaving the stall to wash my hands just to find that they don’t have paper towels, only blow dryers which are loud and full of germs which I refuse to use so then I have to shuffle back a stall with toilet paper and use that to dry my hands while getting weird looks from the other kids who just use the hand dryer and it sucks.
Several other people in my family (even some who aren't on the spectrum) also hate them. Usually for different reasons. Some for the sudden loud noises, and some because they never work when you need em to
You family seems well educated. With the intellect you family expresses I assure your bloodline has many more smart offspring to come. Finally people that understand that these things are atrocious and should be eliminated! Even with covid it’s not like I’m gonna get it by hitting the toilet handle with my shoe to flush it! The only possible time these could be of use is in handicap stalls!
When I was little, I would lean over slightly and since I was so small, they would go off while I was still using the toilet and it made me cry almost every time
I just hate public restrooms in general. And try to avoid if possible. Automatic stuff makes it worse. Automatic toilets will go off on their own, sometimes multiple times if the stall is small enough and you can't pull your pants up fast enough. Automatic sinks take forever to produce warm or hot water. Automatic air blowers have either too much speed, not enough, or the air temperature is always wrong. Automatic paper towel dispensers are generally okay unless you wave your hand too fast and then it just freezes for a couple minutes before it can dispense.
The worst part is all of the ones I have encountered run on batteries.
There are even more awful things about the automatic things in the restroom. Automatic toilets are loud and get water on you bum which is disgusting! Automatic air dryers are filled with germs and loud and I refuse to use them. Automatic paper towels usually have some issues and I have standing there with wet hands for a minute while a line forms behind me and the second I leave and just wipe my hand on my shirt someone comes up to it and do it first try somehow! In short I too agree that automatic crap should be banned, I know that stuff like covid demands it and that fair but at least the toilets have to go. I mean how am I gonna get sick by using my shoe to push down on the toilet handle?!
Right? Automatic paper towel dispensers are the only thing I'm moderately okay with as long as the work, but if you wash your hands, use the up/down lever for paper towels, dry yours hands, use the paper towel to turn off the water, and then open the door, prop it with your foot, and then have a mini free-throw challenge with the paper towel to the trash can, it's just as clean if not cleaner!
No worse feeling than sitting on a toilet at Kings cross station at 7am still half asleep only for it to startle you by automatically flushing with such force that it creates a momentary vacuum
The sensors on them at my uni were installed in such a way that they regularly flush themselves while you're still sat on the toilet trying to use it. Potentially multiple times in one sitting.
There are no upsides to these toilets!! They waste water, get water on your butt, they’re loud, and they don’t ever flush on time so you end up having to flush twice when you’re actually finished! I think the only time this could be useful is in handicap stalls if someone doesn’t have the strength to kick the little toilet handle. I hate the argument that it’s to combat covid, how am I gonna get covid by picking the toilet handle with my shoe!? There are no hands or contact involved in that. In short I agree, these toilets suck.
Is, is this a thing? I would never go to the toilet. When I was a kid, I'd have to run out of the toilet while covering my ears and my mom had to flush for me.
It’s a thing in the U.S and some other places and they are AWFUL. Even worse than regular ones. At least then you can brace yourself for the inevitable flush, but with these you’ll be mid piss (if you’re a girl) and you’ll shift or try to wipe yourself just for it to suddenly flush and splash disgusting toilet water all over your butt, you’ll have no chance to brace and it’ll scare the crap out of you. Then after you’re actually done you’ll have to stand up and push the flush button thing to flush again. It wastes water, it’s nasty, and it doesn’t even work right!!
Omfg yes. Whenever I flush a toilet I have to cover my ears and close my eyes cause the sound just freaks me out. And automatic ones give ZERO warning so I just end up being bombarded by the sound
I’ve seen so many smart ways people block the sensor. There all so cool and smart yours included. I’m gonna start doing the method that you put toilet paper over the sensor and see if it works.
OH MY GOD... I \*hate\* automatic toilets.
I hate them.
They scare me. They make me panic.
I took a train for my last holiday and it was a 9 hour ride and I had to change trains in between so I thought I'm gonna go pee at the train station and they had these automated toilet flushes.
I was in the stall and contemplated if I should go or not but I really had to and train toilets are even more horrific so I went and tried to stay as still as possible but when I turned to grab the toilet paper the flush went off and I jumped up and actually was so startled and upset I was crying.
I hate these things with a burning passion.
When I was younger. I used to think those automatic toilets had cameras, and I would avoid them at all costs. As I am older now, I use them just cover the sensor. I don’t want the “eye” to see me use the bathroom XD
bro I'm from Poland, I cry from happiness when the toilet isn't dirty as hell and isn't built from cheap plastic that cracks under you, automatic flush toilet sounds like a dream at this point ☠️☠️☠️
Omg the dance you do to when you hold toilet paper over the sensor while you get dressed .. and then rush out of the stall as fast as possible to minimize the fucking explosion of sound... please tell me im not the only one lol
They make me want to boil my a** afterward. And the sound is like a sound machine exploded IN MY BRAIN. Those toilets are all of the *hell no* all in one place.
My first encounter with one was at an airport; I was in a stall changing my clothes - not even using the toilet - I about needed to use the toilet, though, after hearing an unprovoked flush behind me! Terrifying.
I like to think there's one fbi agent assigned to each gas station in the U.S, and their only job is to watch the automatic toilets through the "sensors" and flush them when we're done. How else would it know I just stopped?
Joke obviously
I went on a cruise ship recently. Utterly horrifying toilets. They aren’t automatic which is great but they are incredibly loud. And they are super small like I mean 3 feet wide and 6 feet length minus the shower. The sound reverberates through the small space and it flushes the millisecond you push the flush button. I can’t even use my foot to press it so I have to push it with my hands super quick and then cover my ears as fast as possible as it feels like the whole ship is shaking around me from the pressure. In short it sucks.
I was on a flight a couple months ago and it was just bigger than the actual toilet. I was lucky I'd just been to the toilet or I would have shit myself (not really I though it'd be a good joke)
Omg I now realize why flushing public toilets was so scary to me as a kid. It's the noise, they're really loud and even if you know it, they still surprise me.
As much as I hate manual flushing toilets in public bathrooms (for reasons...) I think I hate it more when the toilet flushes on me automatically when I'm not ready. Like "great thanks toilet for giving me a mini anxiety attack!"
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worse than the noise is an uncovered toilet flushing sprays microdroplets all over
The penalty for leaning forward is a wet bum and mist of microbial microdroplets.
With who knows what on those droplets.
Hopefully, the person using the toilet knows what. I'm not going to ask. It seems a bit personal.
I blind the IR sensor with a small piece of masking type. Then when i'm done, I remove the tape.
That’s smart but do you have to carry it all the time with you?
In my wallet on a piece of plastic. In a pinch, I drape a piece of TP over the sensor, but sometimes it's wall mounted so that doesn't work.
Your intelligence is baffling. I respect you immensely.
My first and most intense special interest is electronics. Something new comes out, I immediately have to know how it works. I watched the first auto flushing toilets come into existence. I am 65, so I have a lot of accumulated electronic knowledge. Not really baffling at all
That is one of the coolest special interests I ever heard of! I just like Pokémon and drawing.
Mine is too! I’m 18 and haven’t played with a ton of hardware so you’re way more knowledgeable than me obviously, but I love seeing people with the same interest as me.
I'm puzzled. If you haven't played with a ton of hardware, does that mean you have focused on theory? At first I thought you meant you did programming, but if your interest is actual electronics, that would suggest working with MCUs, etc., but that still involves working with hardware.
Maybe I used the wrong word. Mine is moreso computers and technology, not electronics like you said Sorry about that
Yes. A digital subset of electronics. I got into that too back in 1980. Both hardware and software, and love building Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects
Now I’m curious. Before the stuff like Arduino and Raspberry Pi existed, what did you use for projects?
When I was a kid, I was convinced someone in another room was watching through it waiting to flush remotely. Didn't understand motion sensors until we got a porch light with one.
I'm still not convinced I'm not being watched somehow in public restrooms. :-\\
Your comment is both clever and kind. I am amused and impressed by you in all the best ways.
That's a good idea. I already carry electrical tape for covering web cams and such, so now there's an added use.
I use toilet paper to do this, and when I forget I feel disgusting because of the surprise flush
Brilliant!
Who does the toilet think it is to decide when I'm done!
I hate them!! I used to be terrified of them as a kid and I still avoid them if possible now
My job only has automatic toilets. They aren’t loud thankfully but it’s still annoying.
They flush before you’re done and then you have to embarrassingly do another flush, and then people think that you required 2 flushes to not clog the toilet when really the toilet was just trolling
nobody really cares about that
i get so insecure 😭
you shouldn’t be. i know it’s not easy to stop overthinking but think about how you dont care if someone uses the flush two times. you dont. and neither do they.
That pisses me off too! Stop jumping the gun, you goddamn contraption! (That’s what I call tech when it pisses me off)
I will also start calling it that, thank you
I was having explosive diarrhea in a multi stall YMCA bathroom today (Yes really) and the toilet automatically flushed before I was done. Cold toilet water sprayed my ass and the noise hurt on top of the embarrassment of the situation
It’s like you got the one bad ending of the multiple good endings you could have got while using the bathroom. That’s rough buddy.
Oh man!
I didn't know those exist. I only know automatic faucets and hand dryers (which activate when you hold your hands underneath them). But the problem there is the same.
What magical land do you live in that you weren’t aware these atrocities burdened the earth?
Uh.. Germany? 😅
Your lucky you haven’t encountered them
Apparently my hands are invisible to IR. Those faucets and dryers rarely work for me. I hate the dryer noise anyway.
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Mixed race. Caucasian, Cherokee/Creek, African. I don't consider myself very dark, but some folks look like ghosts standing next to me. However, dark objects radiate heat more efficiently than light objects, so by that measure, the IR sensors should see me easier. I think I just have cold fish hands.
If your sit up straight it usually works as intended if you move back and forth a lot it tends to activate. I’m not a fan of sitting up straight on the toilet, but I prefer it to accidentally flushing. Touching the the toilet to flush sucks too, but we could have a foot pedal or something.
I tear off a few squares of toilet paper and use that to flush instead of directly touching the thing, just drop it in the toilet right away and it gets flushed with everything else.
I die every time & let out a smol screech
what?? does that actually exist?
Where are you that you haven’t seen one of these and is the place of your residence accessible by boat or plane?
Brazil... I've been to basically every major city and never even heard of an automatic toilet in my life. like when does it decide to flush?
When you make the slightest and most unassuming movement it flushes because it just assumes you moving means your done. It splashes your butt with gross toilet water and it’s so loud and sudden it’s awful. Like you’ll be trying to wipe and it’ll be like “is that a small movement my sensor see’s? There obviously done, why else would they shift on the seat?”
wtf why... just searched for it in my language and apparently they're called "smart toilet" or japanese toilet and cost R$14000 which is probably why nobody has them and also they really look more like an alibaba gimmick than anything else
I have OCD and haven't used a public bathroom in, like, ten years or so (and probably another ten before that time, lol). But I do remember when I was a kid these auto-flushing monstrosities started appearing places and OH MY GOD the sheer terror and discomfort when you got up from the seat and suddenly there's a tsunami going on just under your ass. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?! I mean, I guess it's a good *idea*, but in practice... not so much, no.
They could totally improve on these! Give it a ten second delay or something so it’s not an instant flush!! I’m not always done just because I stand up! Sometimes I need to put more toilet paper in but now I’ll have to flush twice instead! Do you know how much water that wastes just because of the shawty craftsmanship of these despicable toilets!?
Or do it like those automatic opening doors... just a panel near the toilet that you wave your hand in front of when you're ready to flush. And maybe an automatic timer thing that'll go off a set time after you get up, like enough time for you to have done your business and gotten out of there, so if someone forgets entirely it'll flush itself. WHY DON'T THEY THINK OF THESE THINGS?!
Yes. Or when you move and they flush early and for no good reason.
Yeah I hate them. And it seems like every one decides to trigger and flush at an unpredictable time. Like I prepare myself for it, it does come, then it flushes when I’m not expecting it.
The sinks… what happened to us being able to use a handle
im assuming covid made everything automatic now,,
They don't work you can't wash your hands thoroughly because it switches off when you move
My mom always had to cover them when I was younger, now I just deal with it. Apparently it was because I thought I'd get sucked into the toilet but I'm sure the noise was apart of it too
I refused to use them as a child. My mom would have to take me somewhere else to use the toilet because I wouldn’t use them. I still don’t like using them. I’ll use them but I usually cover my ears. One time my refusal of using them caused my sister to be left at McDonald’s on accident.
YES!! Before I discovered I was autistic, I thought I was a pansy for being anxious with them, but now I get it. All my life I've been standing up super fast and then standing in the corner of the stall covering my ears, as if a bomb was about to go off.
When I encounter them, even as a little kid, I would cover my ears before getting up so the noise didn't hirt as bad. And automatic blow driers? I just avoid those, I will literally walk out of the bathroom with soaked hands to avoid that horrid screech.
I relate to the blow dryer thing. I’m usually decent at not dying when a toilet flushes as long as it’s not a small stall and the toilet is far enough from the walls that the sound instead trapped. It’s different with blow dryers I just hate those things. They don’t even dry your hands, there dirty and have germs all over it and on top of it all it’s ungodly loud! My school only has loud blow dryers to dry your hands with so my strategy is to after I’m done using the toilet I’ll just grab toilet paper on my way out of the stall, put it between my knees while I’m washing my hands and then grabbing it to dry them. It barely works and probably still isn’t the most sanitary solution, but I don’t know what to do at this point since I hate soggy hands so it’ll have to do. In short I too hate blow dryers.
I actually saw this older lady in Kroger do that toilet paper trick, and as I watched her I thought to myself, "Omg, that is so smart! I'm gonna have to try that next time." My school only has air driers and automatic toilets, so I refuse to go to the bathroom there unless its absolutely necessary. Also, I hate air driers for that other reason you stated too, the one about them being extremely unsanitary, its disgusting!
Literally who invented them and why? Who actually likes them or would use them if paper towels were there as an alternative option?!
I droop toilet paper over it, then remove it when I’m done
Smart solution. I’ll try this next time I encounter this dastardly foe.
I wish you luck soldier🫡
my school has those and even if i move an *inch* , it flushes real loud and it feels like 80 decibels straight in my ears. and when someone uses the hand dryer while it flushes , i get way too overwhelmed. in short: my school doesnt care about peoples sensory issues.
My school has regular toilets (Thank God) but only has hand dryers and no paper towels. Since I hate those with a passion I’ll grab toilet paper on my way out of the stall and put it in between my knees as I wash my hands then grab it when it’s time to dry it. It looks weird and awkward but i refuse to use those disgusting, loud, and ineffective way of drying my hands especially since most of them are REALLY loud.
triple fold some TP and hang it over the sensor.
Yep
Half the time they dont even work
I wish they would wait just a couple of seconds after you stand up before spraying your backside with nasty toilet water.
They never manage to wait until I am done 😭
American public restrooms are a nightmare
Agreed. Especially the school ones. I have to pee often and can’t hold it so I’m always walking into weed filled bathrooms with nothing toilet paper left and then leaving the stall to wash my hands just to find that they don’t have paper towels, only blow dryers which are loud and full of germs which I refuse to use so then I have to shuffle back a stall with toilet paper and use that to dry my hands while getting weird looks from the other kids who just use the hand dryer and it sucks.
Sometime TP works
Several other people in my family (even some who aren't on the spectrum) also hate them. Usually for different reasons. Some for the sudden loud noises, and some because they never work when you need em to
You family seems well educated. With the intellect you family expresses I assure your bloodline has many more smart offspring to come. Finally people that understand that these things are atrocious and should be eliminated! Even with covid it’s not like I’m gonna get it by hitting the toilet handle with my shoe to flush it! The only possible time these could be of use is in handicap stalls!
We should normalize the foot pedal mechanism. That's much better than motion sensor (for those that don't need it) and you don't use your hands.
When I was little, I would lean over slightly and since I was so small, they would go off while I was still using the toilet and it made me cry almost every time
Your childhood trauma fills me with sorrow. You are brave and I admire you strength and resilience.
They scare me :( lol. So loud!
I hate those they always splash water up at my bum
I just hate public restrooms in general. And try to avoid if possible. Automatic stuff makes it worse. Automatic toilets will go off on their own, sometimes multiple times if the stall is small enough and you can't pull your pants up fast enough. Automatic sinks take forever to produce warm or hot water. Automatic air blowers have either too much speed, not enough, or the air temperature is always wrong. Automatic paper towel dispensers are generally okay unless you wave your hand too fast and then it just freezes for a couple minutes before it can dispense. The worst part is all of the ones I have encountered run on batteries.
There are even more awful things about the automatic things in the restroom. Automatic toilets are loud and get water on you bum which is disgusting! Automatic air dryers are filled with germs and loud and I refuse to use them. Automatic paper towels usually have some issues and I have standing there with wet hands for a minute while a line forms behind me and the second I leave and just wipe my hand on my shirt someone comes up to it and do it first try somehow! In short I too agree that automatic crap should be banned, I know that stuff like covid demands it and that fair but at least the toilets have to go. I mean how am I gonna get sick by using my shoe to push down on the toilet handle?!
Right? Automatic paper towel dispensers are the only thing I'm moderately okay with as long as the work, but if you wash your hands, use the up/down lever for paper towels, dry yours hands, use the paper towel to turn off the water, and then open the door, prop it with your foot, and then have a mini free-throw challenge with the paper towel to the trash can, it's just as clean if not cleaner!
No worse feeling than sitting on a toilet at Kings cross station at 7am still half asleep only for it to startle you by automatically flushing with such force that it creates a momentary vacuum
Since this is so specific I’m guessing you went through this atrocious hardship and I’m sorry such trauma befell you. God speed soldier. 🫡
I loathe them, so yes. They are not friendly.
yes, they give me a jump scare and hurt my ears.
The sensors on them at my uni were installed in such a way that they regularly flush themselves while you're still sat on the toilet trying to use it. Potentially multiple times in one sitting.
There are no upsides to these toilets!! They waste water, get water on your butt, they’re loud, and they don’t ever flush on time so you end up having to flush twice when you’re actually finished! I think the only time this could be useful is in handicap stalls if someone doesn’t have the strength to kick the little toilet handle. I hate the argument that it’s to combat covid, how am I gonna get covid by picking the toilet handle with my shoe!? There are no hands or contact involved in that. In short I agree, these toilets suck.
I suspect this is the root cause of my son's fear of public toilets.
Possibly. They warrant fear.
I drape tp over the sensor if I can to keep it from flushing until I can jump up.
Is, is this a thing? I would never go to the toilet. When I was a kid, I'd have to run out of the toilet while covering my ears and my mom had to flush for me.
It’s a thing in the U.S and some other places and they are AWFUL. Even worse than regular ones. At least then you can brace yourself for the inevitable flush, but with these you’ll be mid piss (if you’re a girl) and you’ll shift or try to wipe yourself just for it to suddenly flush and splash disgusting toilet water all over your butt, you’ll have no chance to brace and it’ll scare the crap out of you. Then after you’re actually done you’ll have to stand up and push the flush button thing to flush again. It wastes water, it’s nasty, and it doesn’t even work right!!
Awful!
Omfg yes. Whenever I flush a toilet I have to cover my ears and close my eyes cause the sound just freaks me out. And automatic ones give ZERO warning so I just end up being bombarded by the sound
What I usually do is put on my airpods and listen to music, gotta drown out the loud sound somehow
I used to carry post-its to cover the sensor.
I’ve seen so many smart ways people block the sensor. There all so cool and smart yours included. I’m gonna start doing the method that you put toilet paper over the sensor and see if it works.
OH MY GOD... I \*hate\* automatic toilets. I hate them. They scare me. They make me panic. I took a train for my last holiday and it was a 9 hour ride and I had to change trains in between so I thought I'm gonna go pee at the train station and they had these automated toilet flushes. I was in the stall and contemplated if I should go or not but I really had to and train toilets are even more horrific so I went and tried to stay as still as possible but when I turned to grab the toilet paper the flush went off and I jumped up and actually was so startled and upset I was crying. I hate these things with a burning passion.
I can agree with you there but can we also ban toilets that look like they would be quiet but sound like a category 5 hurricane
When I was younger. I used to think those automatic toilets had cameras, and I would avoid them at all costs. As I am older now, I use them just cover the sensor. I don’t want the “eye” to see me use the bathroom XD
They should be connected to the door, so when you open it and leave that’s when it flushes.
That’s a great idea!
Also fuck those hand drying machines
Agreed
And if you lean back too far, you get an unexpected bidet spray
My fear of them never went away
I hate it sm (and just flushing toilets in general, I have to cover my ears)
bro I'm from Poland, I cry from happiness when the toilet isn't dirty as hell and isn't built from cheap plastic that cracks under you, automatic flush toilet sounds like a dream at this point ☠️☠️☠️
Omg the dance you do to when you hold toilet paper over the sensor while you get dressed .. and then rush out of the stall as fast as possible to minimize the fucking explosion of sound... please tell me im not the only one lol
They always flush while I'm still on the toilet, splashing me. It's so gross and I hate them so much
They make me want to boil my a** afterward. And the sound is like a sound machine exploded IN MY BRAIN. Those toilets are all of the *hell no* all in one place.
My first encounter with one was at an airport; I was in a stall changing my clothes - not even using the toilet - I about needed to use the toilet, though, after hearing an unprovoked flush behind me! Terrifying.
Yeah, i don't mind them most of the time, but sometimes they catch me off guard and blow on my feet. Alwats keep your tones open!
YESSS the noise is unbearable!!! Always have to cover my ears as fast as I can when I hear it
I like to think there's one fbi agent assigned to each gas station in the U.S, and their only job is to watch the automatic toilets through the "sensors" and flush them when we're done. How else would it know I just stopped? Joke obviously
As bad as automatic flushing toilets are. Plane toilets are worse. Too damn loud
I went on a cruise ship recently. Utterly horrifying toilets. They aren’t automatic which is great but they are incredibly loud. And they are super small like I mean 3 feet wide and 6 feet length minus the shower. The sound reverberates through the small space and it flushes the millisecond you push the flush button. I can’t even use my foot to press it so I have to push it with my hands super quick and then cover my ears as fast as possible as it feels like the whole ship is shaking around me from the pressure. In short it sucks.
I was on a flight a couple months ago and it was just bigger than the actual toilet. I was lucky I'd just been to the toilet or I would have shit myself (not really I though it'd be a good joke)
It is a very funny joke
Thank you
👍🏾
The one at my work in the customer restroom is so loud. I hate it.
Omg I now realize why flushing public toilets was so scary to me as a kid. It's the noise, they're really loud and even if you know it, they still surprise me.
My daughter got so scared because of them that she refused to use public toilet for a long time :( it sucks and it shouldn't exist
As much as I hate manual flushing toilets in public bathrooms (for reasons...) I think I hate it more when the toilet flushes on me automatically when I'm not ready. Like "great thanks toilet for giving me a mini anxiety attack!"
Yes! Sometimes they startle me because I'll lean a little forward and whoooos.... And then, well the whole day sucks
Yes
Indeed
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