Saturday, July 24, 2004
Sense This?
Having been (yet again) doing some more traveling around, I cant help but notice the latest craze in public bathrooms. I am sure all of you have seen this new phenomenon as well. The AUTOMATIC BATHROOMS!
Yes I am talking about the little sensors that turn the water on/off.
First started with the toilets. At least first that I saw y'know.
Next I saw the automated sinks. You know these numbers, the type that you can hold your hands under and the water runs. Move your hands a little and *snap* the waters off. Now I am even seeing automatic paper towel dispensers. They even replaced the locks on my building with these little automatic openers you just "wave" at the sensor device.
Heck, in the Miami international Airport I even recall having seen a toilet with an automatic plastic liner that rotates a clean piece of plastic onto the seat as you enter the stall. Note the past tense of that... I walked in once and the machine fed it a clean plastic strip alright, then another, then another. It basically unwound an entire roll of plastic and when it ran out it just sat there whirring and clicking aimlessly. Poor machine. I was so spooked by the noise I could hardly do what I was supposed to be doing in there!
So as I am there waiting for mother nature to take her course, I'm trying to ignore the doggerel emanating from the malfunctioning "life simplifying" device. I began to ponder some of the other "life improving" devices which are proliferating everywhere now, trying to make life just a little bit easier.
This one particular time in Atlanta I walked into a restroom with some of these sensors. As soon as I walked in the toilet flushed and the hand dryer started up! That was pleasant. Funny though after I took care of business no matter what I tried the darn thing wouldn't flush. I waved my hand in front of the sensor. I waved both hands. Soon I was doing jumping jacks in front of the thing, and still it sat there silently mocking me. I washed my hands with the automated soap dispenser which emitted just a drop of soap with my hand under the machine, yet continued to leak out onto the now hardened remains of the soap which it had leaked there before. But hey it got the hand dryer to stop. I waved again, pointlessly, at the toilet on my way out. I wasn't too worried though, the next time someone walked into that restroom, the toilet would flush and the hand dryer would start up.
I laughed out loud as I recalled this gem, just as I did the toilet flushed.
Kinda like this story should be!
Ya 'sense' me?
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Having been (yet again) doing some more traveling around, I cant help but notice the latest craze in public bathrooms. I am sure all of you have seen this new phenomenon as well. The AUTOMATIC BATHROOMS!
Yes I am talking about the little sensors that turn the water on/off.
First started with the toilets. At least first that I saw y'know.
Next I saw the automated sinks. You know these numbers, the type that you can hold your hands under and the water runs. Move your hands a little and *snap* the waters off. Now I am even seeing automatic paper towel dispensers. They even replaced the locks on my building with these little automatic openers you just "wave" at the sensor device.
Heck, in the Miami international Airport I even recall having seen a toilet with an automatic plastic liner that rotates a clean piece of plastic onto the seat as you enter the stall. Note the past tense of that... I walked in once and the machine fed it a clean plastic strip alright, then another, then another. It basically unwound an entire roll of plastic and when it ran out it just sat there whirring and clicking aimlessly. Poor machine. I was so spooked by the noise I could hardly do what I was supposed to be doing in there!
So as I am there waiting for mother nature to take her course, I'm trying to ignore the doggerel emanating from the malfunctioning "life simplifying" device. I began to ponder some of the other "life improving" devices which are proliferating everywhere now, trying to make life just a little bit easier.
This one particular time in Atlanta I walked into a restroom with some of these sensors. As soon as I walked in the toilet flushed and the hand dryer started up! That was pleasant. Funny though after I took care of business no matter what I tried the darn thing wouldn't flush. I waved my hand in front of the sensor. I waved both hands. Soon I was doing jumping jacks in front of the thing, and still it sat there silently mocking me. I washed my hands with the automated soap dispenser which emitted just a drop of soap with my hand under the machine, yet continued to leak out onto the now hardened remains of the soap which it had leaked there before. But hey it got the hand dryer to stop. I waved again, pointlessly, at the toilet on my way out. I wasn't too worried though, the next time someone walked into that restroom, the toilet would flush and the hand dryer would start up.
I laughed out loud as I recalled this gem, just as I did the toilet flushed.
Kinda like this story should be!
Ya 'sense' me?
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