Commercial Ice Cubes: Where Not To Use Them

In some restaurants, they put ice cubes in the urinals.

This is excellent for many reasons, the most obvious being the entertainment value of causing them to melt, but the more practical purpose of reducing odour in the restroom.

Unfortunately, some restaurants like one of the Tim Hortons near my home in Waterloo use commercial ice-cube makers (right).

Because commercial ice makers use running water to make higher-quality ice, the ice comes out with an indentation on one side of the ice cube where the machine held the block in place.

When aimed in just the wrong way, the stream of urine will enter one side of the indentation, and be refocused back from whence it came. (I.e., all over my pants.)

So, employees of venues too cheap to buy urinal cakes:

If you're going to use ice cubes, please don't use these commercial cubes!