Squat

I visited a temple this afternoon in the sprinkling weather. I had to take a dump while walking around and managed to find the restrooms in the temple area. It was a generally clean bathroom with no stench and it had four squat toilets. The Asian-style squats were expected given that the temple is extremely old. What shocked me was that these were not old squats. They had hand sensors rather than handles for flushing the toilet. Now why would they update the squat toilets with sensors when they could have just replaced them with Western-style toilets? Who was the Mr. Spock behind that decision?