I saw a candid camera show once where a renter was showing an apartment. The ad for it did not mention that the place did not include a bathroom. During the showing, the renter made no mention of this lack so when those looking at the unit asked, "Where's the bathroom?", they did so in exasperation and irritated surprise. I know the beasts of the forest do without bathrooms. Old houses did not have them. I have read in The Great Necessity by Rose George that something like ⅙ of the earth's human population have no toilet facilities at all, not even a hole in the ground. Still, in most or all of this country, you would not do well to offer a place for rent without a bathroom.
One reason that old men get grumpy is that they are old enough and disillusioned enough that they can see baloney and lying and people fooling themselves all over the place. If we run short of bathrooms, we can begin the process of convincing people it is better to live without them. One aspect of American positive and optimistic thinking is that we may be able to get a start on the process by claiming it is the new thing. Most of us have not lived in old time boarding houses with a single shared bathroom for several rented rooms. Let's show some of the old movies where people wore bathrobes down the hall to the bathroom. Let's call for a return to yesteryear. Let's call for greater consciousness of water shortages and the need to conserve water.
It does seem that water shortages are going on now and likely to be more serious in the future. Yet, we have watered lawns and large golf courses. In Arid-zona and drought stricken parts of California, it makes sense to conserve water. If I own large tracts of flat land, I might want to build golf courses on it. So let a few creative thinkers do a little investigating and a lot of even more creative calculation and maybe we can squeak by with estimates of water needed and water used that will pass inspection by local and state authorities. That way, I will get that income from those golf courses, others will get jobs building them and collecting fees from their use and local and state authorities will get tax money from them.
Maybe we can modify the game so that we don't need greens. Wouldn't it be more challenging to play on grassland or desert? Maybe we can convince golfers it is time to face bigger obstacles.
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Bill
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