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Stephanie K Maier's avatar

My daughter's inlaws gifted them one of those new fangled Japanese toilet seat assemblies. The seat is heated and it's accompanying remote control offers all sorts of directed warm wash functions.

It's quite clever in the daytime with reading glasses on, but quite disarming in a middle of the night visit. As soon as I set foot in the door, it lights up to greet me and seems to emit a double beep like R2D2 in Star Wars.

I routinely close my eyes when opening the lid at night to minimize my wakefulness. But unless I wear my reading glasses & turn on an overhead light, I cannot see or fathom which graphic figure to press on that sleek remote. So I reach behind me and depress the good old flush handle and stumble back to the guest bedroom. 💤

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Sarah McCraw Crow's avatar

I’m curious as to whether your Twyford toilet looked like the one in the old-fashioned ad! Incidentally, I’m a convert to the Toto washlet (the fancy Japanese toilet with heated bidet), but our friends have gotten the Totos too, and now the Toto washlet seems to always come up at dinner parties. You know you’re in late middle age when people are repeatedly talking about their love of a toilet…

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