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look, when someone passive-aggresively demands that people do something, chances are they’re not going to do it… but rather, go out of their way to avoid doing it.

here’s a case study.

This is a urinal from my work. For the past few weeks now, the sign you see above the urinal has been displayed. It’s a little hard to read the sign, so here’s a close-up:

Look, I’ve been working here for years. Literally, years. I’ve wasted more time at this job then I really care to contemplate. In all this time I’ve worked here, I’ve spent a fair share of it peeing at this very urinal. In all that time, never have I noticed a lack-of-flushing problem. I don’t know who wrote this note. Our janitor is a laid-back enough fellow that I don’t think he’d ever give a shit who didn’t flush the urinal, as long as everyone kept their piss inside of said urinal.

But now, thanks to this sign, any time anyone goes into the bathroom and approaches this urinal, they are greeted with this sight:

Maybe next time, leave well-enough alone and don’t start demanding we all start doing something we had, up until this point, already been doing anyway.