Cleaning Toilets

Of all the despicable and disgusting cleaning tasks known to man, the most disgusting one is without doubt cleaning toilets. Cleaning toilets wins hands down. While I am never averse to rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty in the quest for a cleaner house and surroundings, I always and inevitably balk at the prospect of cleaning toilets. Call me sensitive, but I think a repository for human excrement needs to be cleaned by a machine. I can never get myself to indulge in cleaning toilets for anything in the world and I am sure most people would agree with me. I was even very sure of this till I happened to flip through a catalogue of toilet cleaning equipment one day at a mall.

In our house, we use little more than a bottle of germicide and a good old fashioned mop to indulge in cleaning toilets. During the times I have witnessed the cleaning staff in my office or at a mall, I have noticed that they use very similar equipment for cleaning toilets. The exception is our janitor at office, who uses liberal doses of noxious acid in his task of cleaning toilets on all the floors. Can’t say I disagree with the chap. Cleaning toilets in your home is one thing, but cleaning toilets at places frequented by hordes of other individuals is another thing altogether! Maybe the fumes were a way for him to knock his senses out before he began with cleaning toilets. He does seem to do a very good job though and I can’t really complain about the maintenance of our office toilets. They invariably sparkle and are clean and dry. But each time I think about cleaning toilets, I almost sully them all over again!

But getting back to the catalogue, there was a whole range of cleaning equipment, especially used for cleaning toilets. Now considering that I hate cleaning toilets as much as the next man, I can only consider it an act of a higher power to find myself browsing through that catalogue. I mean what other reason could there be? So I dutifully went up to the hardware store the catalogue guided me to and bought myself some heavy duty equipment to help me in cleaning toilets. After all, my disdain for cleaning toilets had always not gone down well with the other members of my family. While each of them took turns at cleaning toilets at home, I ran far away each time they looked for me to help them with the task. Now, with my newly purchased equipment, I was eager to prove that I too could indulge in cleaning toilets like the next man. Provided I had the right equipment of course!