Only One runs Water of Three Taps in Bathroom

Today is the twenty-eighth day of the spring semester 2024. If it were in Japan, today is the first day of the school year and fiscal year. But here, it’s middle of the semester now. I have three classes today because it’s Monday.

One class lasts 95 minutes. It consists from 45 minutes of the first half, 5 minutes of break, and 45 minutes of the last half. I usually go to a bathroom during 5 minutes break. After what I do in the bathroom, I wash my hands. So many people (men) don’t wash their hands, but I wash. There are three faucets in the entrance of a bathroom. And I found that water runs from  only one tap out of three. Two don’t work. At first, I thought it might be some kinds failures. But it is not likely to be a technical failure. Because the same things are happening in all the bathrooms in the classroom building. There is no bathroom that two taps work and one doesn’t, let alone bathroom in which all the three taps work. Only one tap runs water in every bathroom of the classroom building in this university.

So, it must be an intentional thing. Obviously, it saves water, good for water conservation. But I just imagine that there may be an educational purpose on this. You should not think that everything is favorable to you. If there are three faucets in bathroom, don’t expect all the three taps run water. Two are useless, only one works for you. This is a message to young university students. In their future life, they will encounter many difficulties. Not everything works for you, some are even harmful to you. Only things of less probability work for you. In order to survive and get along with difficulties, you have to think like this.

Do I imagine too far? Anyway, only one tap runs water; this is common to all the bathroom. The next problem is which of three gives me water. Usually, a tap on right or in center works. I haven’t seen so far that a tap on left runs water. It depends on each bathroom about which of right or center works. Probably this has another effect. That is to enhance your memory.