In my experience the bathroom is a place where the unexpected is not welcome. I remember back in the 80s when my family first encountered automatically flushing toilets in Cherry Creek Mall during a trip to Denver. My mother and grandmother found it disturbing. I thought it was funny to wave my hand and try to make the toilets flush. A new experiment to curb Drunk Driving in New Mexico will take this to a whole new level.
Imagine for a moment you've enjoyed several adult beverages while out watching a game with some friends. The game ends and the joint is clearing out. The laws of nature dictate you make one last drunken trip to the restroom before heading home. You do whatever it is men do when approaching the urinal and then, when you are ready to "take care of business," you hear a voice asking if you really should be driving. You look around and see no one, but the voice continues. It is then that you realize how truely drunk you are. You think the urinal is speaking to you. Little do you know that New Mexico spent over $10,000 so that urinal can talk you out of driving home drunk. This might actually work. After all, if you think the porcelain is speaking to you then someone must of slipped something nasty in your drink, right?
There is one fatal flaw in this plan. The urinal cake speaks to you in a flirty women's voice and says "Hey, big guy. Having a few drinks? Think you had one too many? Then
it's time to call a cab or call a sober friend for a ride home. Remember, your future is in your hand." Drunk men are usually ready to hook up and susceptible to flattery. A flirty woman just called him and his goods "Big guy" and told him his future is in his [probably not empty] hand.
All I can say is New Mexico should prepare for a baby boom in 9 months.
MSNBCs take on the cake.