You're done pooping, it's time to get off the can and carry on. You turn to look, a crude but valuable gut health check.

It's small. Uneventful. This is the good news you were hoping for.

Yet an old conundrum arises, one you know all too well: do you use the big flush and be done with it, or do you use the small flush to save water at the risk of losing it all if you have to flush again?

The doubt settles in as you prepare to make a choice that will impact not you but future generations