Crap Shoot
Here in New Zealand when I have finished my business, I am faced with a perplexing proposition, which of the two buttons on the toilet to push.
One button, labeled with a dark circle, will fully flush the toilet while the other, labeled with half a circle, will provide only half of the flush. Back home there is only one option, thus no need to ponder. If my toilet back home is in good working order, my business will be out of my life forever with one easy push. I can leave the bathroom with confidence and never look back.
It is the half flush button that I find perplexing. Am I to hope that half a job is a job well done? Suppose that half a job only does half the job. Do I press the half flush button again in hopes that the other half of the job will be completed, or will again only half the job be done leaving a quarter of the job undone. If I now press the full flush button to finish the job with certainty, I will have completed the job in a total of one and a half flushes versus the one flush if I had used the full flush button in the first place.
If you are a perfectionist, then by all means, go for the full flush. With just one press you can leave your worries behind you. If you are a gambler at heart like I am, then the half flush is the flush of choice. The half flush contains all the excitement of a one arm bandit. You hear the roar of the water, see the swirl in the bowl and when all the action settles and you look back, who knows it might just be your lucky day, jackpot!