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Automatic sinks put an interesting spin on the story of Moses, the rock, God and the fresh water. The moral is that it isn’t always easy to get the water going, at least not to everyone’s
satisfaction and that if you don’t understand how to get the water flowing, you, like most mortals, are in good company. The story is the one where God tells Moses, who is leading the
Israelites across the desert, to strike the rock with a stick to get the water running. You can imagine everyone’s joy when the old hit-it-with-a-stick works and everyone has lots of fresh
water. Then God redesigned the rock interface and told Moses that the next time he was just supposed to talk to the rock, sort of like an Alexa controlled sink. Let’s hope no engineers are
reading the Bible and stumble across this or washing one’s hands after relieving oneself will become next to impossible leading to a new dark age of death and disease. Moses goes to the rock
where he is surrounded by thirsty Israelites, and, rather than talking to the rock, he strikes it. Hey, it worked the first time. How many users have said that. The water flowed. Moses
figured that God added speech recognition but kept the old hit-it-with-a-stick interface working. Moses didn’t really understand what God was talking about when he said that hitting the rock
with a stick was deprecated, and now God was pissed. Surely Moses should have had more faith in the original designer of the system, the one who invented the whole idea of rocks, water and
so on. Luckily, this was just a minor screw up, so Moses wasn’t destroyed in a pillar of flame or anything like that, but he was told he was never going to make it out of the desert. Really,
that’s the story. RTFM and trust the designer. So, the next time you are trying to get an automatic sink to start running and totally at a loss, think back to Moses, the rock, God and all
that and remember that there are things beyond simple mortal comprehension.