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Considering how many times grown men have peed in their lives, we’re surprisingly bad at it. Let’s take a 56-year-old housekeeper as an example: if she’s a normal person (which he hopes), she’s had about 125,000 opportunities to practice.
But anyone who uses or cleans a public toilet knows that it reeks of incompetence. So – and if I ever wrote a true sentence, it would be this: Men need help. The crux of the matter is that we prefer to get help without it being noticed. Because if there’s anything more in keeping with the man’s role than needing help, it’s getting help.
Therefore, it is necessary to putt with sensitivity, preferably by relying on a different part of the male psyche. And nowhere is this information more precise than with modern urinals. Yes, I mean the ones with flies. I love her.
It’s hardly surprising that it was the cleaning manager who came up with the idea.
The flies are available as sticky notes and is placed near the spout of the urinals so you have something to aim for. According to studies at Amsterdam Airport, they reduced spills by 80 percent. 80 percent, dear readers! It’s hardly surprising that it was the cleaning manager who came up with the idea.
I’ll think about this when I’m at a conference with lots of journalists, a profession that often says it wants to be a fly on the wall, even when even the toughest couldn’t imagine the urinal wall. Anyway, there’s free coffee and bottled water at the conference and soon I’m standing in front of a fly like that and it’s actually impossible not to aim at it, and that’s even before I start dreaming about a fireman at full speed fighting the terrible flames threatening an orphanage…
Nowadays you can buy pee targets in the shape of binoculars, faces of politicians, footballers, cute animals and beer glasses. In addition, there are flies that “disappear” due to the heat in the jet if the firefighter is persistent and precise. A truly wonderful product development if you ask me.
Because while it’s a shame that you need tricks to stop people (well, men) from peeing on the floor, it’s great to have things that make it easy to do the right thing. More of this, please – and not just in toilets, but wherever people often stand with their bras down.
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