Flush

There are times when you spot something and you just can’t ignore it.  With me, it seems to happen a lot.

I was in a well known hotel in Ireland, and happened to go to the toilet (as you do!).  When I flushed the toilet I was dumbfounded.  I don’t ‘dumbfound’ easily, so you can be sure that I had observed something special.  The water simply roared out of the cistern for second after second after second.  It seemed as though I might have to send for Noah.  All that was missing was a shoal of herring.

Never being one to flinch from a prevention task, I hurried away and retrieved my video camera.  The resulting movie would make history.

But, wait a minute.  Was I being unfair?  Perhaps it was just a rogue toilet.  I checked them all, and, yes, they were all the same.

I hastily videoed the offender (hastily being a somewhat incorrect choice of adverb – since the event took such a long time), and then set my mind to addressing the problem.  Through various intermediaries in the LAPN, the hotel was contacted, and I was informed that they had taken action.

Some time later, I was in that self same hotel, and couldn’t resist another visit to the loo.  Lo and behold, sure enough, all was right with the world!  I unleashed my camera yet again, and the result is now available for all to see.

I’ll keep you informed of the other strange happenings, which I have encountered on my great adventure.

Why Tuesday?

Did you ever wonder, “what’s so special about Tuesday?”.  I have often wondered about this.

I was in a food processing company one time, and they were spending a lot of money on purifying water.  One of the big uses was when they backwashed the filters.

I asked them how exactly they did this, and on what basis.  I was informed that the filters were flushed every Tuesday night for several hours.

“Why Tuesday?”, I asked.

There was silence in the room!

Months later, I was in the water purification room of a swimming pool complex.  I asked them how they controlled the backwash.  I was told that they flushed the filters every Tuesday!!

Has someone, somewhere, written a manual specifying Tuesdays as flushing days? Or is it a secret code, or charter, or something?

 My Aunt always cooked mutton on a Tuesday.  Could there be a connection?

I’ll return to this subject anon.