Comments on: Those automated restrooms

By: ceicoe

ceicoe — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:40:27 +0000

I think you can really blame vandals for the improvements. Too many idiots found it funny to jam the flush rod or leave sinks running and wasting thousands of gallons of water.
Of course we can always go back to the old style roadside rest stops. Remember the open pit toilets with year round ventilation?

By: jon baker

jon baker — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:38:52 +0000

Seen on a hot air hand dryer: ” For a short message from Obama, press here.”

By: SteveH

SteveH — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:01:01 +0000

We’ll know they’ve gone too far when an automated urinal detects your presence and moves over slightly to the left.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:30:07 +0000

I like the automated restrooms for their cleanliness, but every time I’m one of a row of women at the sinks, flapping our hands hopefully around silent, uncaring faucets and soap dispensers that give forth nothing and exchanging looks of mystified despair, I think of my mother’s favorite comment on such things: “It’s the innate perversity of inanimate objects.”

Plus, there’s now the potential embarrassment of striding up to a sink and waving one’s hands confidently under the faucet, feeling full of modern technological know-how — only to discover that the reason nothing is happening is that it’s the old-fashioned kind with handles!

By: texexec

texexec — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:07:43 +0000

Neo said:

“texexec: I once saw one of those handdryer machines on which someone had written (at the end of the instructions for how to use them), “then wipe hands on pants.””

LOL!

Now I know what to do with my magic marker next time I go into a public restroom.

By: Perfected democrat

Perfected democrat — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:28:33 +0000

“Just put a piece of toilet paper over the sensor eye.”

Better hope it’s not the TSA manning the camera….

By: Perfected democrat

Perfected democrat — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:24:44 +0000

LAG Says:
August 15th, 2011 at 10:19 pm…

Dang, you preempted my joke!

By: PlatoBunker

PlatoBunker — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:49:11 +0000

Good lord neoneocon. Just put a piece of toilet paper over the sensor eye. Do your business. When you want to flush, remove the piece of toilet paper. With decent reflexes you should even be able to dispose of the t/p before the flush begins. I thought only liberals had problems like this.
-PB

By: sbruce45

sbruce45 — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:23:01 +0000

Thanks for that. One of my pet peeves. Trying to get the water to go on or the towel to drop is often a challenge. But the most automated I ever used was one where I put my hands under the faucet and first the soap dropped out, then the water turned on, and then the hot air blew to dry them. All from the same place. Such regulation on how much you use and how long you can do it. At least it worked.

By: LAG

LAG — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:19:01 +0000

You do realize there’s actually a camera hiding behind the little opaque sensor window on those automated doo-hickies, don’t you?