Lyle and I have been travelling again, and over the past few days I have lost count of the different flushing mechanisms of the various toilets I have used. This is not an easy thing for someone with limited vision.
The toilet in our hotel room has a lever mounted horizontally on the wall behind the toilet unlike other levers, which protrude at a right angle from the wall. Some toilets have buttons against the wall above the tank. Others have flush mechanisms on the tank itself either buttons or levers. My biggest surprise was a foot pedal, which I discovered quite by accident.
There are also sensory flushing mechanisms. Sometimes the toilet will flush while the person is sitting, sometimes standing, sometimes by opening the cubicle door, and maybe sometimes there is a delayed action where you might even make it to the sink to wash your hands before the whoosh of the flush is heard.
The trickiest motion sensory flush I came across on this trip was on our flight over the Atlantic. It must been hard to hide the motion sensor on the Boeing 787 aircraft, but the engineers managed it. Apparently there was a teeny black dot on the back ledge behind the toilet. Again, I found this quite by accident as I ran my knuckles along the ledge.
Oh the joys of toilets and travel! Over time I have managed to flood the entire women's washroom at LAX Airport, locked myself into a cubicle in Mexico, and have wandered into the Men's in Alberta. Different toilet flushing mechanisms can be tricky for anyone, but for a person with limited vision or no sight, they can be a real challenge.
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