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Autoflushers, Autofaucets, Auto-Many Things
Stop flushing when I'm putting toilet paper on you dammit!
Detect my hands so I can wash them dammit!
STOP BEING OVER/UNDER SENSITIVE, DAMMIT!
Detect my hands so I can wash them dammit!
STOP BEING OVER/UNDER SENSITIVE, DAMMIT!
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The most annoying paradox ever, as seen in the shiniest and newest academic building at my university: Dual-Auto-Flush. When you're trying to specifically be eco-friendly by providing the option to flush with less water when you've merely peed, then don't make it automatic! Because as might be expected, the more-water setting is the default for when it motion-activates, which is of course often when you don't want it to. So that kind of defeats the whole purpose. I've learned how to move to not set it off, but sometimes I slip up. And other people probably aren't as obsessively careful.
And auto-faucets in that same building can be really annoying. It usually starts out fine, then sometimes seems to completely not notice my hands are there and somehow only seriously pulling them away before putting them back under will actually get it to work.
Also, I hate non-temperature-adjustable auto-faucets, because they usually get really hot way too fast. Luckily most of the ones here (or at least the one I use most) is adjustable.
Yep. They have this little tiny thing on the side near the base that you can flip in one direction or another, though I'm never quite sure which way is hot and which it cold, so I usually put it in the middle.
Amusingly enough there are now auto-paper-towel dispensers in the whole building, or most of the school really. I think they know how likely college students are to abuse that.
...Until some prick jams it
Yeah, except they give way too little at a time.![:\](/forums/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
With paper towels, I usually go for two dispensings, automatic or not. I am sometimes a bit puzzled by how much other people use them. Though I think a huge amount of the paper towel usage on my floor is by this one weird guy who basically doesn't do anything normal. I could say a lot about that but I'm not going to.
Then again, even at manual ones I try to use no more than one sheet
Evergreen,
I think that automatic paper towels can be useful, but I feel like you can run into this problem a lot when they fail to sense your hands.
I guess that is one more reason to go with the hand dryers instead.
DAMN HAND DRYERS BACK TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL FROM WHENCE THEY CAME
What's the problem with hand dryers?
They never get my hands dry enough and sometimes the bathroom has a door and hand dryers instead of paper towel dispensers, which makes me have to kick up my foot, hook it around the door handle, and open the door (and if it's a knob, I have to turn it with my foot. Yes I have done this before. It is not easy)
Someone would rather waste paper.
When I have to operate door handles, I usually try to aim for a part of the door handle that is probably not commonly touched (such as the bottom of a U handle or near the axis of an L handle) and use my middle finger to operate it (enough strength but not one i'd normally use to touch much of anything else).
Funny, usually I have the opposite problem. If the temperature isn't adjustable it, like, never gets hot.
I usually end up using 3 towels, myself. I blame these huge man-hands. :PI hate hand dryers, they indeed never get my hands dry enough. Though I suppose a good one gets them dry enough to dry off on my shirt/pants without the whole affair being too wet.
I'm also not in the habit of using paper towels to open doors, thought maybe I should be. As it is, I do sometimes try to use a lesser finger. Though that doesn't work in my particular dorm, where the doors have a handle that you have to turn, it works in most public buildings here.
I try to make it a habit to bring a handkerchief for this purpose, but I forget like 99 times out of 100.
The funniest part is in a lot of places, the bathrooms are set up so you don't have to handle all these appliances that get regularly sanitized, and then the moment you walk out of the bathroom you touch a keyboard or pencil or doorknob that's considerably dirtier than the toilet seat was.
Toilet seats are only clean because people have the modesty to use seat covers.
My showers don't even have heating.
No, really.
No to mention I don't think any of the men at this college use toilet seat covers, seeing how I usually have to swab piss off it before sitting down.
There's an odd distinction between "it is clean by a certain reasonable and objective definition" and "it feels clean".
It's like, there's a distinction between "Barack Hussein Obama II is actually legally allowed to be President of the United States" and "I still don't think that Barack Hussein Obama II is legally allowed to be President of the United States because it just doesn't feel right".
let's be cold shower buddies, kraken
My shower has heating, but the pipes and underside of the bathtub are basically exposed to open air so it's still really frigging cold.
Showering in a cold shower is like swimming. After about 10-15 seconds you sorta adapt to it.
Being in a hotel (i.e. for anime conventions) and taking a shower in a hotel bathroom feels like a friggin' $2,000 spa in comparison.
On the original topic: the building I work in is in the only section of the campus that has auto-flush toilets. It's also the only section of the campus that has little signs in the bathroom saying to please not waste water. Apparently, hard-working managers really don't ever stop to take a shit, or they'd realize that the reason water is being wasted is that the toilets can flush up to five times before you're done using them.
^ Has anybody ever gone up to them and said, "The autoflushers in those bathrooms go off several times just because a person is near them"?
^ Even if somebody did, what are the odds that the manager would actually care?