Complete darkness

**Wongo** · 20th January 2006, 11:18 PM

The toilet in our new office has a new feature. It switches off the light when no one is in it. It is part of the green thing that corporate companies are doing. I think it is great and they have my full support.

Today I was in there doing my business …… and after about 3 minute, yes the light was off. “Oh what have I done to deserve this?” It was complete darkness, I could not see a thing, zero.

Being relatively new to a far bigger toilet I wasn’t prepared to get out there and hit a brick wall or get tripped over by a rubbish bin. So I thought no worries I will sit there and wait for someone to come in.

I waited and waited, for 10 minutes, I was trapped in there for 10 long minutes. I thought this is ridiculous, I need to do something. I opened the door and made the smallest steps possible and I slowly I found my way out. I even managed to find the sink and washed my hands.

Hang on, if that was the sink then where was the tap?:confused:

**Rocker** · 21st January 2006, 03:38 AM

Sounds like a subtle method of ensuring that employees never spend more than three minutes in the toilet. You need to get your own back by spending 30 minutes on the Forum during working hours

Rocker

**DanP** · 21st January 2006, 09:41 AM

You could always trip over in the dark and go on work cover then sue for a lump sum...

**Groggy** · 21st January 2006, 10:13 AM

Why do you want to see what you're doing?

**journeyman Mick** · 21st January 2006, 10:16 AM

Sounds like a workplace health and safety issue to me - go see your WH&S rep.

Mick

**Caliban** · 21st January 2006, 10:22 AM

Scotty
Think of it as a gentle initiation to prepare you for your Queensland trip.

**redwood** · 21st January 2006, 10:52 AM

Wongo check out deans review of the new GMC 3.000.000 candle power torch. i think thats exactly what you need in this great hour of darkness

**Harry72** · 21st January 2006, 02:33 PM

Make some paper planes from the toilet paper!

**Wongo** · 21st January 2006, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by Caliban

Scotty
Think of it as a gentle initiation to prepare you for your Queensland trip.

Yes Jim only one more slip.

**Caliban** · 21st January 2006, 09:50 PM

I presume that translates as sleep

**Rocker** · 22nd January 2006, 02:39 AM

Originally Posted by Caliban

Scotty
Think of it as a gentle initiation to prepare you for your Queensland trip.

Hey, we may have the occasional rainforest, but Queensland is not The Heart of Darkness - that is Perth, or possibly Melbourne.

Alright, I have to confess to cutting some dovetails by hand recently - but that is only because it is actually just as quick to do them that way, if you only have a few to do. And someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse for my Leigh jig.

Rocker

**ozwinner** · 22nd January 2006, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by Wongo

“Oh what have I done to deserve this?”

Maybe they think you are a mushroom.

Al

**Dion N** · 22nd January 2006, 10:42 PM

Anyone ever used one of those automated public toilets ? One was installed in Canberra when I lived there in the late 90s. It featured automatic opening doors, automatic taps that detected your hands in the basin (similar to air hand driers) and a perfume pumped in when you finished. Even the toilet paper dispenser was automatic - which brings me to the story of a close friend and his encounter with this marvel of modern technology.

His first problem was that the toilet assumed that any one who spent more than 10 minutes in the toilet was up to no good and began opening the door whilst he was still sitting there with his pants around his ankles, exposing him to passsers by. After some frantic pushing of the door open/close button he regained a small amount of dignity. This was quickly destroyed with the paper dispenser refused to function. The only thing that saved him was the fact that he didn't own a car and so he resorted to the only piece of paper he had in his wallet - a bus ticket...

**silentC** · 23rd January 2006, 08:43 AM

Hey Wongo, exactly the same thing happened to me in reverse. There I was enjoying a bit of shut eye in the toilet when some rude bastard came in and the lights switched on.

They installed that system in our office in Sydney and I discovered it last time I was up there. Actually, it never went off while I was on the throne but I did walk in once when the lights were off and some poor bugger had been sitting in the dark.

OK, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Our loo has a very dim back up light which is on when the main lights are off. It's just bright enough to be able to make sure you're not catching anything as you do up your fly :eek: and that you wont bark your shins on the hand basin

**Wongo** · 27th January 2006, 11:46 AM

Oh no it happened again. To prove that I am not kidding I took a photo this time.

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