No ifs, ands, or butts

The Japanese company Toto is to toilets what Ferrari is to cars.

McClatchy

Once you’ve sat on a Toto throne, life changes. The Washlet model has a heated seat and what you might call an unusual cleaning system. Think bidet. It features alternating water and hot-air jets. Different models even have odor erasers and self-lifting lids that rise automatically when one approaches.

The first time I saw one in a Tokyo hotel, I felt anxiety. What does it do? It shoots water where?!? But since then, Toto has become the commode of fancy to the Hollywood stars. Actor Will Smith raves about them.

I bring Toto up because I’ve spent the weekend in a hotel in Manhattan, a few blocks from Times Square, where Toto and a local church have raised a big, er, stink.

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