Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 08, 2022

I don’t I’ve ever become a plugger like that.

As a veteran plugger your EDC (every day carry) includes a flashlight, or a cell phone with a light app.

To get the lights back on, you must make some kind of “movement”!

How about when you’re on the toilet and the fire alarm goes off?

Lights no problem …. No toilet paper is a problem ;-)

It’s not a library. Do your business, get the paperwork done and leave!

That makes us all pluggers

Been there

Just open the stall door and swing it a couple of times. That’ll turn the lights back on. Don’t worry that someone will see you. If there was someone there, the lights would have stayed on…

It happened to me at church. I had to open the stall door and wave my arms around to get the light on.

Wouldn’t want that to happen to even my sister-in-law ! ! ! !

Pretty sure i can count on one hand the times i’ve done serious business in a public toilet. Lingering is not on the agenda…

LOL!!!

We have motion detector night lights in our bathrooms. They do not stay on long enough. I can change the brightness and the sensitivity, but not the duration.

A bunch of new engineers won a LEED certified-energy-efficient contract. They put motion detection flushers on the toilets. They used photo cell chargers and batteries in the flushers. They put motion detection detectors on the lighting and the batteries never recharged. They held an open house several months later after completion and all of the batteries were discharged. Janitors had to fill mop buckets on a regular basis to flush the toilets because the bypass in the flusher was electric and not a mechanical bypass. They wired a light to charge the batteries until the rechargeable batteries died years later and replacement batteries were $300 per toilet.

Before motion detectors, restrooms had actual light switches. The HR guy flipped the switch on his way out one day while I was still standing at the urinal! I knew it was time to look for another job…

Sometimes the light going out transition will trigger the toilet to flush.

Can’t he still find his ass?

In rooms with automatic lights, you need to keep moving every so often.

The moral of it all..Keep eating your prunes people

No, but I’ve had the lights go out while I was in the stall of a bathroom because of a tornado. Does that count?

You just hope it isn’t the Zombie Apocalypse.

I was completely unaware that automatic lights existed until one day at the doctor’s office. I had waited in the exam room for a short while when the overhead light went out. I thought maybe the electricity had gone out, but the computer was still on. I got up and went to the door to go out in the hall, and the light came back on! Now I get up and walk over to the door when I’m at that office.

The RV park we go to most often, has motion detector light in the ladies room. We have a Class B (Chevy van conversion) so we tend to use the RV’s bathroom until we are settled in for the night. (Toilet is in a cabinet/closet and one sits with the cabinet door open and their feet in the aisle of the RV – door blocks the other person from seeing the TV when sitting in the front seats at night watching TV and one is completely visible to the bed and the other person who is in it.)

I did not know that there was a motion detector. One night I was in there and the lights went out. I could not reach the door to open it until I stood up and by that time I was ready to leave so all else had been done in the dark.