Dealing with auto-flush toilets

If you want an auto-flush toilet to work properly, you have to act right.

You can't take this opportunity to lean over and re-tie your shoe because that will lead to a gratuitous flush.

You can't re-adjust your position for the same reason, so you better get properly seated on your first try.

There are other things I do wrong sometimes, but I haven't figured out what they are yet.

Or you might have the kind of toilet where you have to get up and start walking out the door before it flushes. At least I've learned not to bother waving my arms around and jumping up and down and doing the hula at one of these toilets until I've tried actually opening the door and leaving and turning around and waiting and just when I'm ready to give up and go look for some sort of push button, then it flushes.

There's also one kind of auto-flush toilet that still surprises me because the sound it makes at first makes me look around for some sort of whining kitty cat. (Fellow Austinites, they have those at one of the Alamo Drafthouse theatres.)

I don't like the idea of my behavior being conditioned by a toilet. And if the conditioning ever works, who knows how transferable it would become?