Lo-Flow toilet

Photo by BobbaLew.

“Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.”

Um, fellas; a lo-flow toilet is not saving water if I hafta double-flush it every time.
Or if I hafta pour a bucket of water through it just to get it to swallow.
Lo-flow toilets seem to be the norm any more.
Our new “Toto” toilet is a lo-flow toilet.
Pretty strong for a lo-flow toilet, but it still plugs.
I’ve also noticed I often see a plunger next to a lo-flow toilet.
Didn’t see that years ago.
The plunger was kept in the cellar.
But now it’s right there in the bathroom next to the toilet-brush.
It’s like they expect you’re gonna hafta plunge it.
Did that recently at a bed-and-breakfast near Altoona, PA.
Their lo-flow toilet plugged.
Rather than call in the owner, we plunged that toilet ourselves. —Their plunger was right there.
And so it goes.
Had to cart water the other day to get our lo-flow toilet to swallow.
Not the first time.
Okay, so now the holding-tank no longer holds the quantity of water needed for a flush.
Thereby supposedly saving water; perhaps a gallon or two per day.
I hafta cart the additional water needed in a bucket.
Goodbye water-saving.
If we wanna save water we may hafta go to some other means of ridding ourselves of waste.
Perhaps an outhouse in the Back 40.

• “Altoona, PA” (“al-TOON-uh”) is the location of Horseshoe Curve (the “mighty Curve”), by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is now a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child. —I’ve been there hundreds of times, since it’s only about five hours away.) —The bed-and-breakfast is in nearby Gallitzin (“guh-LITT-zin”) where the railroad tunnels under the ridgetop. It’s called Tunnel Inn. It was built by the railroad in 1905, and used to be the Gallitzin town offices/library. The Gallitzin town offices/library moved to a new building, and the original building was restored as a bed-and-breakfast.