Every year Seattle celebrates a Street of Dreams These are

Summary: Every year Seattle celebrates a Street of Dreams These are super luxurious houses built close together on extremely small lots For two months a constant stream of visitors pay $18 to see how the rich might live if they lived in those houses Karen Lisa and I generally forego this event on general principles This year when the street of dreams had seen its last visitor all six houses went up for sale We happened to see all the Open House signs and decided to give ourselves a free tour I introduced each realtor to my wives who smiled innocently back to see what the reaction would be it became a great game for us and a novely for the bored realtor But wait That s not all And thereby hangs a tale We were touring one especially opulent house when we heard a sharp scream from Lisa who had gone on ahead She had entered one of the bedrooms and rounded a corner when the toilet lid suddenly opened as she approached it Later in the 1970 s the sitting toilets appeared Comfort at last But then I noticed the top of the toilet bowl which is flat in the United States was curved into a sink and that the fill tube concealed in our toilets protruded upwards then curved downward Every time you flushed the water for the next flush would fall into the sink long enough for you to wash your hands A perfect miniature grey water system It turns out this is a feature of the new Japanese paper less toilet This is a smart toilet with a handheld control panel that lets you select wash front wash rear blow dry and deoderize American toilets eat your heart out As I ve traveled the world I m occasionally humbled by really great ideas that my own culture hasn t thought of yet It wasn t just the toilets in Japan and the bidets in France I had some of the greatest pizza in Japan I ve ever eaten anywhere and the traffic lights sing They sing Torianse which is Japanese for Go on down the road unlike our Western traffic lights which thirty years later are just learning to sing Cuckoo Cuckoo posted by Martin at   

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