Automatic Hand Towel Instructions. Because you need them.
This has just occurred to me. We have been using the auto-towel-machines in the wrong way. I’m sure you know the ones - where a roll of towel hangs down so you can dry your hands off without faffing about with hot air blowers? They’re a great invention, and here’s how to use them properly:
1. Wash your hands. Lots of people skip this step, but it’s really important.
2. Approach the handtowelamajig. Place your feet a shoulder-width apart.
3. Dry your hands on the exposed bit of towel.
4. Then, and only then, pull the towel two or three times to bring down a new fresh bit for the next person.
I can’t emphasise enough how you need to do it in that order. You don’t pull the towel first and leave a big wet patch for the next person. If you did, they would have to touch your wet handwater to get their new bit. It’s just not fair.
I hope this will serve as timely reminder for everyone to use the towel-o-matics in a reasonable way. I want to see a big bit of fresh white towel next time I go to the lav. Thankyou.
Oh, and as for you non-handwashers and yellow-mellowers - you can all fuck off and die.
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Doors to the toilets should really open outward. So you don’t have to handle the handle touched by those who don’t wash their hands. Or just hit the one in the QVB with its very nice automatic sliding operation. Shame about the hand dryer’s position though.
Comment by Switch — Wednesday August 31 2005 @ 4:53 pm
my colleagues seem to find me a bog-nazi, for desiring clean bathroom facilities…
and also expecting that people retain (obviously internally, and not in the bowl) any kind of bowel gas or matter until leaving the confines of the office. who wants to work in their stench?
maybe i am going a little overboard… but a girl can dream…
Comment by mc — Thursday September 1 2005 @ 1:14 am
I think we all need instructions for this. As I have often been confused in using these daunting devices. Are you able to release the instructions in PDF format?
Comment by Jammo — Thursday September 1 2005 @ 11:09 pm
There is nothing worse than washing your hands in a work bathroom and seeing another staffer flit from the cubicles to the mirror, check themselves out, pouffe their hair a bit, then flit right out the door.
Fucking disgusting. Good on you for being a polite potty patron.
Comment by BourbonBird — Friday September 2 2005 @ 12:22 am
Oh god SWAB THEM ewwwwwwwwwww.
Comment by nailpolishblues — Friday September 2 2005 @ 12:57 am
Woah. I actually learnt something.
Comment by Clare — Friday September 2 2005 @ 10:15 am
I refuse to use those towel-pull-things because I don’t know how they work.
Is it one big loop where the towel gets washed and dried?
Or does it just dry while other parts are being used?
If this is the case then you’re getting a case of concentrated piss in the towel, and that’s even more gross then a wet towel.
Paper towels. I don’t care how many trees die.
Comment by David — Friday September 2 2005 @ 11:22 am
MC - I’m with you totally ! That’s why I always try to save my number twos for going home, or lunchtime when I can flit off to the local shopping centre toilets instead !
Or, worst case scenario when I’ve got the whole dodgey-seafood-runs going … I make sure I go to the use the loos upstairs in marketing … make those smug bastards suffer *evil smirk*
Bourbon - Yeah, some people are fucking pigs. Yet they wonder why you refuse to shake hands with them ever again from that day forth …
Comment by DisappearingBoy — Friday September 2 2005 @ 11:28 am
Thanks for all your support. Let me just clear this up - the towels in the towel machines are rolled back up and industrially cleaned by the towel suppliers. It is my ambition to steal one of these massive long towels one day, but I need something to carry it home on the bus in.
Comment by Mark — Friday September 2 2005 @ 5:56 pm
Mark - stuck for ideas in your Massively Singleplayer Offline Towel Stealing Adventure (MSOTSA) ?
It’s simple … if you plan on making off with a massive towel dispenser on the bus, then your easiest option for carrying it is to go Bedouin-woman-water-jug style, and balance it end-on aloft your noggin.
Simple, eh ? Hope that helped !
Comment by DisappearingBoy — Monday September 5 2005 @ 4:21 pm
yer a fuckin’ idiot.
Comment by Mark — Monday September 5 2005 @ 5:12 pm