Blow Me
If you are like me, you find washing your hands in most public washrooms annoying. Why exactly you might ask?
Well, most public washrooms don’t have paper towels, they have those lame-ass hand dryers that take forever to dry your hands. I don’t have the patience to stand there for long enough to get my hands completely dry so I usually end up wiping them on my jeans.
The other day, I was in a public washroom that had the mother of all hand dryers. This dryer was so powerful, it dried my hands in about 7 seconds. Seriously. I kept standing there with my hands under the dryer even after my hands were dry because not only was it quick, it was so powerful that it pushed the skin on my hands around like there were alien creatures scurrying about underneath. I was mesmerised.
And then all of a sudden I got really creeped out. So I ran away.
I’m going back tomorrow.
January 15th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
there is one of them power hand dryers at our local Furrs and it makes me think i’m skydiving..well, at least my hands look like they could be.
letti
January 15th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
I found you through BlogExplosion! Great site!
January 15th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
We have them at our big movie theater. They are so loud, it feels like they’re competing with the ads playing in the theater.
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January 15th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
You only need to wash your hands if you pee on yourself (or worse) or touch anything. All that can be avoided if you use a hefty amount of toilet paper and only touch things with your shoes (flushing with your feet is much more sanitary than flushing with your hands).
January 15th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
Sounds like a positively fascinating experience!
January 15th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Upon wracking my brain, I was hard-pressed to come up with much that was more fascinating than the mesmerising hand dryer. Flower-pressing could be a close second though.
January 16th, 2005 at 1:07 am
Hello.
Very nice blog
January 16th, 2005 at 1:01 pm
I once used a bathroom at the Salt Lake City airport. The door was already open, the urinal flushed automatically, the water came on automatically, the soap was dispensed automatically, and the hand dryer came on automatically. It was heaven.
January 16th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
sounds nice
January 16th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
I work for a medical company and am constantly forced to watch bloodborne pathogen films and other fun stuff. Here’s a few tips from a company-made clean freak:
The faucet handles are dirtier than the toilet seat. Use a paper towel to turn the water on AND off. Same with the door handle. Use a towel to touch it, or failing that, your shirt sleeve. Also, 1 out of every 3 people has either fecal matter, urine, semen or blood on their hands. Be careful who you shake hands with. And, when was the last time you saw a janitor clean the handrails in the stairway? Just something to keep in mind when sliding your hands down it on your way to lunch.
Just some tips from a anal-retentive hand washer (yes, I carry around anti-bacterial hand gel). Heh.
January 17th, 2005 at 2:45 am
cool! I’m jealous. we don’t have high-falutin’ air blowers out here in bumfuck.
January 17th, 2005 at 9:29 am
Dawn,
Don’t be jealous, we only just got that there ‘lectricity up here in Canada, I’m hopin’ we will get runnin’ water inside our houses soon. Ooo and soap, soap would be good. Ooo and paved roads.
January 17th, 2005 at 9:58 am
After reading the Linguist’s comment…I think it might just be safer to do what mum always said, and “Go before you leave home!”
January 17th, 2005 at 10:48 am
I am experienced in the public washroom ways. (not in the George Michael sense y’understand), and I am always inerested in the new and exciting. For example, I was in Home Dépot in VSP a couple of days ago after a marvellous eggy breakfast at a wee place at Atwater market way. AFter strolling the aisles, the eggs and coffee started to react and I was forced to use the loo there. With a certain amount of trepidation I entered, but was joyously greeted with bum protector, powerful hand drier and…*bites lip* two-ply roll. There were no choirs of angels, but it just didn’t matter.
Next week I investigate Reno Dépot in a ‘compare and contrast’ mission.
I think that was more than I originally intended to write.
As you were.
January 17th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
The best handdryers are the ones you can turn the little outlet tubey thing upside down and blow your hair up in the air.
January 17th, 2005 at 11:11 pm
Yep, that hot air sure makes you wriggle under the skin. Sorry we creeped you out.
Seriously - this had me laughing like a drain. Great post
January 17th, 2005 at 11:12 pm
Yep, that hot air sure makes you wriggle under the skin. Sorry we creeped you out.
Seriously - this had me laughing like a drain. Great post
January 18th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
This made me laugh — thanks, I needed that today!
The automatic hand dryers I always seem to encounter are the kind that run for 15 seconds and then wheeze to a gasping halt.
January 19th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
I didn’t have any answers for your song lyric game so I came here (music reject!).
The funniest hand dryer moments are when you catch people drying their jeans with them.
January 19th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Which, of course, is better than drying their genitals.
April 7th, 2005 at 8:10 am
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