We received this note from reader Karen Shipman a few days ago. Yes, Karen, this happens to us, too, and we’re sure almost every other RVer!
Read her comment below and then vote in the poll. After you vote, please leave a comment, too.
“When returning to my sticks-and-bricks home after a few weeks or a month or longer in the RV, I catch myself going for the foot flush pedal on the commode at the house! I wonder if other RVers get the same chuckle that I do when they realize the flush is on the handle at home. Am I the only one? LOL! Let’s take a poll!”
It’s funny how little habits from RV life sneak into our daily routines at home. Whether it’s reaching for a nonexistent foot pedal or trying to conserve water like you’re still on the road.
So, let’s hear it, RVers—Do you share Karen’s experience, or have a similar one of your own? Tell us below. Thanks! And good luck with that, Karen…
Wife says I can walk and chew gum at the same time so I have no issues, maybe she does at maybe 02:30 or so, I don’t know as I try and sleep through her nightly trips.
No issue with remembering how to flush, however opening the microwave is another thing. We continue to press the lower right hand corner on the one at home to no avail. 😀
Also in the motorhome’s kitchen faucet doesn’t have the sensor on the neck, wave water on and wave water off. That usually gets both of us for a couple of weeks.
Miss the home bidet too.
I kick the floor multiple times for the first few days at home. I do the same on the macerator toilet that uses buttons on the wall.
We dont do this but every time I get back to my sticks and bricks I feel like I live in a huge mansion.
Thank you, RV Travel! No, it doesn’t happen to me. We push a button to flush our RV toilet. I do always remind myself to enjoy taking a shower at home the night before we leave on an RV trip. Similarly, I remind myself that tomorrow’s shower will be in a more spacious stall the night before we head home in the RV. Have a great week and safe travels! 🙂
I don’t do the foot pedal on the commode but certainly do the water saving. Bonus: saves on our water/sewer bill also!
Our RV world is pretty different from home:
We have a composting toilet, no flushing just turn the crank. After missing my home bidet for many trips, I installed one in the motorhome. It doesn’t use all that much water… but don’t let the water go into the compost — shut the hatch and direct it to the pee bottle.
Probably more than you wanted to know…
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Yes, for a day or so especially on that first sit in the morning! But to be fair the opposite can happen the first morning on the road. We are in the TT 6-months and in the stix & brix for 6-months.
Don’t do this, but other things creep in, especially in the kitchen. We don’t have a garbage disposal or dishwasher in our sticks and bricks home but the water conserving behaviors we follow in camp tend to carry over. Not a bad thing!
It’s called situational awareness…or lack of.
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No, I don’t try to flush a residential toilet with a foot pedal — for the simple reason that I don’t have a house. :>) One thing I do catch myself doing when I’m at someone else’s house is to wait for the refrigerator door to click when I close it.
My wife and I both noticed this after our last 3 month trip
The shift lever in my motorhome is on the steering column. In my car, it’s on the dashboard under the heat and AC controls. Even though I’ve been driving the car for 22 years, after driving the motorhome, I go to shift with what’s on the steering column, which happens to be the windshield wipers. Happens almost every time!
I said yes, sometimes. We’re full timers so our RV is our home. I have looked for the flush pedal in other people’s bathrooms though.
Not a motor home toilet, but over the years I had a number of two-seater sports cars with manual transmission. Thirty or forty years later I bought a Miata two-seater with automatic transmission. Still on occasion, when I hear the engine reach a certain RPM, my left foot goes looking for the clutch pedal. It only happens in the little Miata. My brain is just stuck in the “back in the day”.
The toilet paper doesn’t go down in the trailer or in my home so when I’m out to a restaurant I sometimes forget that the paper CAN be flushed
Really?
I also find myself once in a while looking for the waste can to throw the toilet paper in!