#398 – Future
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I recently stayed at a place for a few days that had automatic soap dispensers and sinks. It really felt like the future. Why am I touching all these knobs and levers at my house like a cave man?! I’m sure there would never be an issue with automatic soap dispensers and children. Nothing could go wrong there.
Also, the Pens and Pencils mug is real and in the store!
Tags: dryer, sink, soap
I went to a fast food restaurant yesterday, and in the bathroom was a Dyson Airblade hand dryer. It was a beautiful glimpse of the future, and it was down right hilarious when compared to the nearby plastic cup labeled “SOAP” that had soap and a plastic spoon in it.
*blink blink* I just noticed that there was an ad for the Dyson Airblade literally right next to my comment. ._.
Certain hand dryers are scary. Not the Dyson Air Blade ones, they’re cool. On the road up towards Kansas, a travel plaza has the loudest dryers I have ever heard. You could hear them all through the joint, from the convienience store on one side to the McD’s on the other. Scared my niece.
Well, you have to admit that people would certainly know if you didn’t wash your hands…
Wrong. They’d know if you didn’t dry them.
I like the idea of automatic sinks, but I often come across a design that has the sensor facing outward, but the water coming out below that, and a couple inches back, so I usually wind up fighting with the thing. It will turn on, and as soon as I get my hands in the water, it turns off, since I can’t simultaneously trigger the sensors and have my hands in the stream of water.
Automatic sinks are so common here in Japan that if I ever use a public restroom that doesn’t have them I’ll stand there with my hands under the tap for 10 seconds before I realize there’s a knob.
While Automatic things are usually convenient, with the exception of doors they rarely pick up my presence. With the doors I will talk to them and say “open” and when they do I say “thank you” and then my coworker will walk facefirst into the door without it opening and I marvel at how the doors love me.
I hate it when there’s a cool soap dispenser while there’s a disgusting sink that you have to push the top multiple times so that you can get all the soap off your hands.
Yay! Cool soap… now to wash it off my hands without getting it dirtier than before I washed it.
I have never known an automatic sink that worked properly. All the ones I’ve used either only ran water for about five seconds and I had to wave my hands sporadically for a five-second spurt of water every ten or fifteen seconds, or they ran water for a good minute so water was still running after I’d dried my hands and left the room.
Oh, I had to laugh at ‘what could go wrong’. My church installed automatic towel dispensers while I was out of town .. one service, I walked by the men’s, and I kept hearing a ‘whoosh, whoosh’ sound. One of the little boys was amazing himself by dispensing towel. All over the floor. I told him, ‘Get it up, and I won’t tell mom…this time.”