I work in a building that has automatically flushing toilets. There are also automatic faucets, but they’re not really relevant here, although I have found myself sticking my hands under faucets in other restrooms and waiting for a few seconds for water to come out before realizing that I had to turn a knob or something. There are pros and cons to having automatically flushing toilets. The pros: never having to touch the toilet handle, which is apparently party central for many a germ and bacterium; not having to remember to flush — just stand up, walk out and go. The cons: the things sometimes have a mind of their own. There’s a toilet in one stall in particular that tends to flush way before I have decided that it’s time for us to part ways, and somehow I always forget this. It scares the hell out of me every time.
You know, if an office is going to invest in auto-flush toilets, it might as well bust out the big guns and bring in the Washlet C100 — I’m sure it would improve employee productivity.