Where’s the nearest bush?

I can’t believe how often I go to the bathroom. On average the past week, I went to the bathroom eight times a day. I wonder if my classmates had that same number of toilet flushes in their audit. I suppose I just have a small bladder and have to pee a lot. One of the things that I realized from tracking myself was how easy it is to not pay attention to something like how often I go to the bathroom. I have been using restrooms my entire life, and if I have always been using a toilet eight times a day, then it is probably the thing that I have done more than anything else in my whole life. I’m a pro. And, like professional athletes, I don’t even think about going to the bathroom, in the same way a baseball player doesn’t think about how fast to run to get to where he or she needs to be in order to catch a fly ball, they just do it (as Nike famously branded). Because of this, I even found that I would forget to mark down on my tally, which I kept in my shirt pocket at all times the past week, that I flushed a toilet, I would make a mental note while in the bathroom but then sometimes forget to write it in ink. It is such an unconscious activity, it can be as unnoticeable as breathing or sleeping, my brain-stem is in charge, not me. I have trained myself not to think about it. And that is precisely why the eco-foot-print activity is important. As it is so easy to not think about going to the bathroom, it is likewise so easy to not think about the fact the my toilet has sent thirty-two gallons of water in one day, simply down the drain.

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