This is a story of a hotel bathroom janitor

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Daisy

Here is a website that talks of the experiment. It was a seventh grader who did a science project, and after collecting samples send them to a science lab.

Click here to see the hits by googling it. They are pretty much all the same.

But that's besides the point. The moral behind the story is the point. It's about caring for what you do, no matter how important it may seem.

Yeh the story was on ABC a while ago or something... done by some intermediate school girl..

Also I agree.. Its not really the story that matters, its the Moral of the story...


Pavan

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Daisy

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But that's besides the point. The moral behind the story is the point. It's about caring for what you do, no matter how important it may seem.

which moral? what about the old janitor? Drinking from the toilet was his thing - the girl copied the idea from him, then she does a total brown nose job and does it in front of the hotel manager, and SHE gets promoted.

What do you call someone who steals someone elses idea and benefits greatly from it?

(thats the problem with most fables -when you dig a little below the surface you find another layer of human nature that is not so pretty :^)

If I was the old janitor I would have stuffed her head in a toilet until:

1. She drank ALL the water or
B. The bubbles stopped coming up!

[Bill_Hancoc]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

You know, you aren't necessarily going to get sick from drinking out of a (recently-flushed) toilet—it's tap water, plus a small quantity of filth. Besides, dogs do it all the time, and don't fall ill. Plus, you have an immune system for a reason.

It's essentially a fable: the story is about the symbolism, not the actual efficacy of some janitor's particular method of cleaning toilets. (And besides, the source is unknown—it might as well be an outright fabrication.)

youd be getting sick from the chemicles used to clean the toilet...even if it was 100% remived of and bacteria or virus using chemicles and the water was 100% pure clean tap water you still just used TOILET BOWL cleaner which is not one of the lesser abrasive chemicles know to man

[travis48elite]

. . . . . . Well if people have the drive and the determination they can accomplish anything they put their mind to. Even if it is cleaning the toilets or helping out your FIRST robotics team. That drive and determination that janitor has is something that every person should have after coming out of the FIRST program no matter what. If you come out with that determination you will succeed at whatever you put you mind to. I believe that I have gotten that determination through my time on my team. The number of hours of putting that robot together, working on the website, or promoting your team gets you closer to your future after high school. But don't get me wrong we still need to focus on our grades as well. So just think about that.