Today, before a big test I had, I realized I needed to go to the bathroom. I made my way to the mens room, and was sitting in the stall, looking at my feet when I realized something. The stall seemed to be floating. Upon further examination I realized that the stall door and dividers were mounted on the ceiling. Nothing was touching the floor. I also noticed that the stall seemed to be dated from about the 1970's.
This got me thinking. Have you ever been in a stall, doing your business, and see the floor around you and how it is less than spotless? I think I have found the issue. The stalls are manufactured these days where they all are mounted on the floor. This makes it a little difficult to clean effectively in a quick way. However, if there was nothing that was attaching it to the floor, it would be easy to run a mop over the floor and thoroughly clean in a quick swoop.
Why do things always have to change? This type of bathroom fixture was obviously a great idea, so why change it. Why make it where it is harder to clean? If you can answer that question, you are smarter than a lot of people these days. Picture a world where there were clean bathrooms everywhere. Wouldn't that be a nice change. No more dirty toilets, stinky stalls, nasty floors. Ok, well maybe this would only help the floors.
I think about a lot of things like this throughout my day. It always makes me think when I see something that is so obvious, yet so clearly overlooked. This wonderful invention that has so clearly gone unnoticed by the bathroom architects of the world is just another thing that makes me wonder why things are the way they are.