Breaking Waves

Fortunately my fall onto the tile floor did not generate very much noise. So I was not faced with people banging on the door to check on my welfare. Reaching over, I pulled some paper off the toilet roll, before I could carefully get myself up to my feet, and get to the toilet. To finish what had started when I hit the floor. (unfortunately) I was a little lucky my shorts were at least down by then. Not too much to clean up.  So after managing to do just that, and getting to the toilet itself, I completed the … er….. formulae. Successfully. I eventually finished at the toilet and cleaned myself up, which needed a minor amount of washing, required to clean up the visible dampness at the front and side of the shorts, resulting from the combined urgent need to urinate and the slip (Not to forget the biting of the tongue). Managing to pull up the shorts in stages I made ready to leave. But left with a slight visible ‘wet patch’. What to do?
If this has ever happened to you (and there are many I am sure who recall such incidents) and you are leaving a bathroom with ‘water marked’ shorts or trousers, it can be unnerving. It doesn’t matter if you have actually wet your pants slightly, or, as has happened to just as many, had the sudden high pressure of the water from the tap mounted on the basin, and, the unusual pouring design of the basin’s bowl result in the front of your trousers being soaked by a wave of sudden embarrassment. What is that about? Are there bathroom designers with perverse, warped senses of humour, who set out to prove they understood what they paid attention to in school, but know others didn’t listen? And, as a result of their knowledge, have decided to prove it? Or is this their pure revenge for any ridicule they may have suffered? Taking that mathematics and engineering knowledge and, applying the rules of physics to it, to ensure that in bathrooms all over the world, the slightest pressure of water, will send a wave flying over the front of the bowl, where everyone has to be positioned, ensuring that trousers, shorts, or I am sure, some skirts can be soaked right where it is the most embarrassing?
Or is it instead, collusion between bathroom cleaners,technicians and plumbers, where, no matter how poor the water pressure previously, they are able to increase the amount of water flow specifically from those taps (even if the rest of the water system remains at low pressure), to splash in the basin and overflow straight to the user. To leave them wet, startled and potentially embarrassed? You are of course paranoid that everyone will notice you have ‘wet’ yourself when you go to leave a public bathroom after such an incident. Regardless of how it may have occurred. And people never believe that it was the taps water pressure or the design of the hand basin, would they?