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While shopping, I found myself in the household cleaner’s aisle where I saw a box of 2000 Flushes. How did you arrive at the name '2000 Flushes'? These things intrigue me. I thought about the quality control people who test the product. Did they really have someone sit in a chair next to a toilet and flush it 2000 times? In these days of sue or be sued because somebody didn’t lose weight on a watermelon and hot fudge diet, I can't imagine any company not going through the effort to justify their advertising.
It was a nagging question and a slow day, so I decided to conduct my own consumer test.

At 9AM Monday morning I started flushing. It was thrilling to see the water turn bright blue, but that faded by 9:15. Not the water, just the feeling. At noon I took a break for lunch. I thought of what my water bill would look like at the end of the month, but I figured the testing was for the public good and I shouldn't worry. It might have been the same thing if I had left the sprinkler on over night.
Maybe I could enlist someone to cover that cost by publishing my findings. Do you think JD Power and Associates would be interested? Anyway, after lunch I went back to the bathroom. My wife kept asking what I was doing in there. I yelled back, "Research!" and kept flushing. Honestly, it was starting to get old. They couldn't pay someone enough to do that sort of job all day every day. What could you compare it to, the guy that rings the bell to end the round at the fights? At least there’s more action in the ring! I thought about hiring someone to push the handle, but that might have skewed the results and what if they lost count? The results would be as they say, ‘In the crapper’. That night I went to sleep counting blue sheep and dreamed of the Hoover Dam flowing over the top.

Monday came and went and frankly, so did the whole family and I wasn’t feeling as if I wanted to do this for another day, but feeling 'Flush with success' I plodded on. Tuesday afternoon about 2PM I was up to 1856 flushes and it didn't look as blue. I was nearing the end of the tablet. Sorry 2000 Flushes, I’m sure the marketing department figured that the name1856 flushes wasn’t as sexy as 2000. And thank you for not making a giant economy size; I’d have been in there all week!
Not soon after I went back to the market and saw the ‘2,000 Flushes package which said it was good for up to 5 months. My guess is someone let my results leak back to the company and they don’t claim a number anymore, just an approximate time. That’s a lot safer for them liability-wise. As I pushed my cart away I felt that I had done my job when right there at the end of the aisle was a display of large hurricane lamps. The sign said they were 1 million candlepower, hmmmm.