Many bathrooms in offices and shops have two unlatched doors acting as a modesty air lock between the public area and the bathroom itself.<\/p>\n
When<\/a> I<\/a> become President of Australia, I am going to pass a law about these doors.<\/p>\n Every day, hundreds or thousands of people across Australia jump with surprise or even receive a rap across their knuckles, as someone else pushes open the bathroom door just as they were about to pull open from the other side.<\/p>\n Fortunately, there is now a sophisticated technology that allows us to see right through doors and detect when people are approaching them. It is called a “window”.<\/p>\n My new edict will require all such doors be fitted with small windows near the handle, so you can see if someone is reaching for it. <\/p>\n Of course, some consideration must be given to privacy. In 90% of the cases, the geometry of the layout would make it impossible to peer through such windows and see anything immodest. In the 10% of cases where this would reveal the shocking sight of members of the opposite sex using a handbasin, the law would require a larger, frosted windows; the movement of the shadows across these windows would offer similar results.<\/p>\n As you see, I will be a benevolent President. I won’t demand that you kneel down and bow before me for hours on end. You can sit cross-legged, so it is more comfortable on your knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I become President of Australia, I am going to pass a law about bathroom doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[370,176],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","tag-observation","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}