September Message - Choosing Toilets
September 2010: Choosing Toilets – It’s less random than you think.
SOMETIMES WE WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE SILLY STUFF
Which toilet do you use when you’re out and about?
You may be surprised to know that there is research on this one!
And what the research says is that once we’re in a public loo with a row to choose from, most of us go to the second one on the left.
There are two reasons for this – one is that most people are right handed and most right handed people will go to the left when given a choice (this also applies to which side of the bus we choose and other things too)
Next is ‘why the second toilet?’ and that’s because most of us think that everyone else will go in the first one and that it therefore won’t be very clean, in fact we’re choosing the one that’s used the most and therefore likely to have no loo roll left either!
So, now you’ve chosen the toilet – perhaps it’s the second on the right, maybe it’s the second on the left because you’re left handed. Maybe you go to the last available loo furthest from the door for privacy. Maybe you go to a different one every time without thinking much about it but then … the next big questions…
THE NEXT BIG QUESTIONS…
To hover or sit?
To clean the seat? Get comfy? Suspend yourself somewhere, somehow, over the gap?
Have you remembered to check for loo roll?
Will the door lock?
What if your subsequent actions make a noise?
STOP RIGHT THERE!
Worrying about toilets (and thinking we’re the only ones who do) might be something you do or there maybe something similar that you get a little edgy about – choosing food at a buffet, panicking over what to wear, worrying if your breath smells – Toilets are just one example of how many things we ponder over that just aren’t worth our time or effort, you have better things to do and more potential than you have yet realised.
Let’s have a little reality check:
1. There are very few things you really can catch from a toilet seat
2. Everyone has to go at some time or other
3. Any loo is as likely to be out of paper or unsuitable in some way at sometime
4. It REALLY doesn’t matter…
…what would you rather be planning?
There’s a fab book called “Don’t sweat the small stuff” and the sub heading reads: ‘and it’s all small stuff’
I heard an even better sub heading lately … ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff…cos it’ll make you all sweaty’ and that sums up this months message:
We worry about which toilet to go in, what people are thinking, what’ll happen next and so it goes on. What we also sometimes forget to remember is that – for at least some of the time – everyone else is doing it too, both the going to the loo and the worrying!
So, a little challenge this month if you catch yourself pondering on the small stuff (or indeed the bigger stuff that you can’t do anything about anyway) stop right there and ponder instead on what you could do to make your day better…or to make someone else’s day better (apparently this gives great Feel Good feelings)
Let go, have fun and remember to enjoy each day for what it is – an opportunity for something else to happen.
Let’s head into September with a new determination, to not get too sweaty and make some Good Stuff happen instead!
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Posted by Pam on 1 September, 2010. Comments (0)